Back To Shepperton News Posted by John Hoare on 16th February 2009, 02:44 Oh yes. After that single day of shooting on the Corrie set a couple of weeks ago, Red Dwarf starts principal photography today at Shepperton – for the first time in over ten years. (DVD bonus material aside.) We did plan to have a 24-hour vigil outside the studio gates, but unfortunately the police got involved, arrests were made, and it all got rather unpleasant. Instead, we’ll have to settle for wishing the production team well – partly because we’re a bunch of soft bastards, but also because, well, we obviously want this to be fucking great too. Although I’m still not quite sure I believe this is happening. I bet they all get sent home at 10am. But in all seriousness – as though the last couple of weeks haven’t been exciting enough, this is where things start to get really interesting. Good luck, everybody – here it comes…
21 Years and a day after It all began late one night on BBC Two. Its mind-bendingly exciting for me, as this is the first time Ive been able to follow the production on the internet. 1998/9 was’nt really all that great for keeping track of what was happening. I hope someone on the Red Dwarf production reads this (Andrew), because I genuinley mean It with the hignest respect… I (as are millions of fans) are 100% behind you all. The VERY best of luck! Have a ball at Shepperton!
I’m really looking forward to these new episodes, it’s the first time i’ve been able to follow the production like this since i was only a kid during it’s first run, seriously, best of luck to everyone involved.
really exiting news, great to hear its starting shooting properly. hoping it all goes well, enjoy it guys
I wonder what set they’re on. The only thing that’s definite, I’d say, is that they’ll be using the Starbug cockpit set at some point (maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but surely it will feature). Everything else is up in the air.
But if they used another Starbug, the sets would have to be pre-season VI and VII as Kryten remodelled during the 200 year deep sleep period and of course, taking into account the anomalies that reshaped the cargo spaces after ‘Out Of Time’. Or they’ll just tell the pedantic fans to fuck off and use the same sets. I hope they tell us to fuck off.
> Starbug ONE was destroyed? ;-) Depends which reality you’re referring to I guess… if they’re still in the backwards universe, the opposite will be the case, and Starbug possibly wont have exploded. Of course a certain someone reading these conspiricies will be giggling to themselves, knowing full well what’s really the case. *shakes fist* haha!
> Or they?ll just tell the pedantic fans to fuck off and use the same sets. Those sets are long-destroyed. Whatever they shoot on will be newly-constructed.
Would it be too much to ask for a copy/paste when people report Twitter findings? The messages themselves aren’t much longer than the links you’re pasting, and for those of us trapped at work (with Twitter as a blocked site) we can’t see what you’re reporting on.
Sorry, I didn’t know. “Just finished for the day. Very funny sequence. It’s gonna be great.” http://twitter.com/bobbyllew/status/1216365463
“Found out today that I wasn’t meant to say anything about the unplugged episode being cancelled, got a big mouth get me in trouble” http://twitter.com/bobbyllew/status/1216722138
“I think the new episodes will be as good as anything we’ve done before on RD, and possibly better” http://twitter.com/bobbyllew/status/1216745945 Me like.
>Starbug ONE was destroyed? ;-) And the rest of the shuttles were taken by the other fleeing crew-members. (If it follows that continuity.) I’m wondering if the carbug was made from Starbug’s wreckage though.
Agreed. I can’t imagine how much we’d all have been tearing our hair out waiting for updates without Bobby helping us out over the past few months
He leaks like my bell end. He never seems especially apologetic for it, either. Great for us, but I wonder how much it drives GNP mad!
It doesn’t surprise me that Bobby got bollocked for saying about Unplugged being ‘postponed’. After all, it’s been officially mentioned as a part of BTE for ages, both by Dave and GNP, so for him to just say it was off out of the blue was jumping the gun on announcements. Maybe Dave didn’t even know it wasn’t happening!! Tbh what little we know about the episodes themselves, and the way they’re being made, sounds VERY promising to me, so Bobby saying it could be ‘possibly better’ than anything they’ve done before COULD be true. I doubt the comedy will be better (only because what we had before was SO good, it would be unfair to expect it to be matched.), but as far as the storyline, the acting, the production, the overall product goes, it could well be the best Red Dwarf yet. I just got butterflies in my stomach thinking about that! No-one I know understands the significance… I’m like “New Red Dwarf! New Red Dwarf!” My g/f is so pissed off that Easter weekend goings-on have been decided upon (or rather AGAINST!) solely due to Dwarf. Who as well, but I probably could have handled missing Who if required, what with inevitable BBC3 repeats (Planet of the Dead is hardly getting my tastebuds going anyway, as of yet).
Well it sounds like he’s might’ve done it again on Twitter: “Quick reminder. 4 new half hour eps of Red Dwarf broadcast on Chanel Dave on Friday 10th April in UK. Released on DVD worldwide soon after” “4 epse and a behind the sc enes special, sorry, I should always be specific!” So either he’s completley and utterly wrong, or we’re now getting FOUR episodes as well as the behind the scenes special. EDIT: Sorry my mistake, he’s already corrected himself… THREE episodes and not four. Sigh, and there’s me getting a little more excited… *sniff*
“Another steaming pile of quality smeg in the can.” http://twitter.com/bobbyllew/status/1220020022 Gives you a nice warm feeling inside.
“We are having a great time working together, crew are brilliant, Doug is genius, as is ‘Mike S.’ More on him soon.” http://twitter.com/bobbyllew/status/1220559609 Mike S?
Mike Seymour’s the effects supervisor, isn’t he? It’s good to hear that this isn’t just involving CGI in post (unless he was just on set showing them some pre-viz stuff).
Sounds like actual physical effects, to me! I wonder if he’ll be doing model shoots, too? (Although, if I’m perfectly honest, I can totally understand if they go down the CG route with Chris Veale. You can’t expect everything at this stage.)
Wouldn’t model work actually involve building all-new models at this point? Which can’t be cheap. I would imagine it will be all CGI (but then what do I know? Nobody listen to me, I’m nobody. Pretend I’m not here.)
They could always buy the corgi models and zoom in. A bit of wire-work (or rather ‘thread-work’ in this case) and presto. (I’m only joking.) Actually those models do look good…
Script Extract!!!!!!1!!1!11!!!11! Robert Llewellyn has given this script extract on his Twitter page – “No way can I tell you any of my lines. , oh, okay, here’s one . ‘Yes sir!'” http://twitter.com/bobbyllew/status/1224578457 “Yes sir” is a Kryten line, start the speculation, who is it to, I think it is to Lister.
Where on earth would we be without Robert? Loving his latest update: Just recorded Kryten monologue for You Tube. It’s not on yet. Will post it this weekend. Early finish for me today http://twitter.com/bobbyllew/status/1226716704 I’m all moist.
Let’s just clarify his YouTube vid will NOT be about any spoilers, we’ll hear everything we already know, and then get his usual liberal opinions… which is fab don’t get me wrong, but we don’t want a million people concluding he’ll reveal all haha.
He mentioned recently that he was going to try to do a WLW in the rubber mask – I assume this is what it is ..?
Probably yeah, but also in character… almost a fictitional WLW from Kryten’s standpoint perhaps. I dunno, probably wrong but think that’d be comical!
