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Jar, Jar, Jar: 'N Sync's "Clones" Cameo
by Mark Armstrong
Jan 2, 2002, 2:45 PM PT

At last, someone has stepped in to replace Jar Jar Binks as
the target of derision from Star Wars fans the world over.

Brace yourselves: The boys of 'N Sync will have a cameo in
the upcoming Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones.
A Lucasfilm spokeswoman confirmed what Star Wars fan
sites had been buzzing about for days, saying the fivesome
will appear briefly in a "big scene."

(Breathe, people, breathe.)

There are two different stories as to how this shocking
development occurred. The New York Post reports that
George Lucas' adopted daughters, Amanda and Katie, are
huge fans of the popster supergroup, so he cast the boys
as Jedi knights. The Post says they appear in the
background of the film's climactic battle scene, before
getting blown up by "battle droids."

Lucasfilm rep Lynn Hale, however, says that, while Lucas'
daughters are big fans, "that didn't have anything to do
with it." Hale says Justin, Lance, Joey, JC and Chris were
big Star Wars fans, so they asked producer Rick McCallum if
they could appear in the latest installment.

McCallum apparently found a spot for them, in "a big scene
with lots of extras." But Hale says they have no dialogue,
and they won't even be credited as extras when the film
hits theaters May 16.

Still, the mere blip of an appearance by the Pop stars has
set off a firestorm of talk on Star Wars Internet message
boards.

"Please no. George, no. Please. Anything but the boy
bands. Please," wrote one fan in a discussion on Star Wars
news Website TheForce.Net. "Jar Jar I could handle. Not
this."

Other fans, however, were actually willing to give Lucas the
benefit of the doubt--assuming that any cameo with the 'N
Syncers would be so brief that they wouldn't even be
noticeable.

"If they're just in the background, I don't see what it would
matter," writes another fan, known as Silac5. "Now, if they
were to start having synchronized lightsaber battles and
spontaneously bust out in song, then I would have to walk
out of the theater."

At first, it appeared the 'N Sync news was just another
twisted rumor--conjured up by the same Star Wars geeks
who have claimed that Celine Dion is singing the theme for
Attack of the Clones and that Van Halen planned to record
an instrumental score for the film.

This time, the rumor turned out to be true, and Lucasfilm
confirmed it after tabloids in London and New York
published stories on the cameos. Truth, it seems, is
stranger than fiction.

Ugh! (Think Lucas will digitally alter Lance Bass' expression since Lance doesn't seem to be able to? Oh the horror of the memories of "On The Line" return!)

His song, "We Are Here to Change the World" has being rewritten with the new lyrics, "We Are Here To Kill The Gungan"

BTW, "Captain EO" was directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1986, with George Lucas as the executive producer. It played for many years at the Kodak "Journey Into Imagination" theatre at Disney World, as well as other Disney theme parks around the world.

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an epic musical dance battle

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This musical number is entitled "Gold Diggers of 2133" and was choreographed by Busby Berkeley just before his death in 1976. It features a spectacular scene with ten thousand tap-dancing clones.

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Power To The People
10/01/2002

And people say the Internet isn't good for anything. Thanks to the public outcry caused by recent news that boy band N'Sync would be appearing in Attack of The Clones George Lucas has dropped the scene, forever consigning it to cutting-room hell.

As rumours of the band's appearance spread across the globe, fans screamed in terror and ran to their keyboards to lodge their protests online. And while this is hardly an unusual occurrence, the powers that be seem to have taken note. N'Sync's Joey Fatone announced on Florida's Carson Radio Show that the scene had been dropped due to the uproar and didn't sound too pleased about it either. "I'm going to make it officially known they dropped it because people made a big deal about it," he told the show. "We're not going to be in it and I'm not going to comment on it any more."

Nepotism?

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They even had a choreographed dance number with light sabres....

Every film-techer should have seen that!