Yeah its true. Its gonna rivel the government lobby scene in The Matrix. It all boils down to Palpatine/Sidious who bought Jar Jar the waistcoat, knowing that it would truly upset Snoop and start an all out turf war. This is what Tarkin refers to in ANH when he says the remnants of the senate have been disolved. They are in the middle of an underground war.
I hope that the fight between Jango and Obi Wan surpasses the Matrix lobby shootout scene. I reckon it will, and reading the leaked storyboards only made me want to see the fights more, an example of leaked info not necessarily being a bad thing. Shame about the whole Jango-Mace-lightsabre-neck revalation though, could have done without that.
Star Wars individual choreography in the form of Nick Gillard's sabre fights still only has two rivals- Matrix and Crouching Tiger Bidden Dragon. Many of us here may well feel that the sabre fight in TPM has the edge.
HOWEVER, Star Wars has still not been able to do a truly classic shoot-out, with the fight in the Death Star detention block being the best. People expect a bit more from their gunfights these days- though I';d like to see the really big Star Wars batles have a Saving Privatre Ryan feel about them (minus the blood, of course...)
So if this shoot-out, if real, really IS great, that would be quite a coup for them.
Yeah, well... I mean, take the Place Gunfight at Naboo. Now, this was perfectly good enjoyment. But no-one was watching it and thinkinh 'Wow...' like you would with the Matrix.
Of course, everyone watching it was probably thinking 'get back to the sabre fight! Grr!'
And the field battle in TPM was good- certainly a technical triumph- but it all felt a little impersonal. A SPR apporahc could get you really 'in there', and not need to be actually any more violent.