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Lucas to Make Sequels to Star Wars After All?
SageMadHatter writes "After denying the possibility of three new Star Wars movies taking place after the original triology story line, it appears that the possibility has actually opened up."
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Funny how a couple hundred million can make someone change their minds :)
On the otherside its all just rumors until the cameras start rolling....
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Who would have thought that an anonymous post on a fan site about something so obvious would lead to something like this.... no ... no really... who would have thought?
Preferably the same who directed ESB.
Guess what? I got a fever! And the only prescription.. is more cowbell!
The first trilogy was excellent.
The second trilogy has, to date, been somewhere between lousy and sub-par.
I'm no mensa member, but I can spot a pattern here.
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So far, we've got three movies which don't stand the test of time (the orignal three) and two movies that stand neither the test of time nor of wallet nor of stomach (the most recent pair).
It's a pretty safe bet that Revenge of the Sith is going to smell like the ass of a baboon, too.
And yet, finding a SW fan who'll mail nine bucks to UNICEF, instead of going to the midnight show of a movie with a character named Kit Fisto, is like pulling teeth from a chicken.
Pass. Pass pass pass pass pass.
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If Lucas thinks that he can get money out of the frothing masses of geeks, then he'll do it. Hence, the DVDs to be released this fall, after saying that he would only release DVDs as a full 6-box set?
I honestly ask, is anybody surprised anymore?
No matter how bad he makes the prequels they are still doing well financially. He's releasing the original trilogy on DVD and thats gonna make a good buck. It was only a matter of time before he made the full 9 films he originally promised.
If we are lucky he'll go with the formula of the original trilogy and let others direct.
If we are really lucky he'll go out and get someone who actually knows how to write a good script.
It would be nice to actually see if they can get some no name actors that actually know how to act.
oh.. and wookies!!!
If he used the stories from the Thrawn Trilogy, and got a different director, basically only producing the project (taking some cut), they might be ok.
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Wake me when Lucasfilm makes an announcement.
He should hand the reigns over to Spielberg - at least for one movie.
Seriously. Lucas is a great storyteller, but not the greatest writer.
He's a great filmaker, but not the best director.
He creates wonderful characters - but doesn't flesh them out as it seems they should be.
I'm being a little harsh here; I personally think that episode II was pretty nifty (episode I had about 60% nifty): and I've never written a script nor some of the most renound movies of all time.
But let speilberg take a whack. Lucas created this universe, but I think someone else may be able to wield it in ways never dreamed.
After all, the greatest swordsmith isn't always the best fencer. The greatest composer not always the greatest musician.
Dude... you realize that you don't have to watch the movies, right?
Technically? No, no we don't. But realistically we do. And we will, and we will bitch and moan and accuse Lucas of destroying our childhoods.
Why do we do this?
Because deep down inside, we are all just like the Comic Book Guy.
...that *if* they get made, they don't degrade my fun memories of what Star Wars *should be* any further.... :-(
Perhaps you shouldn't watch them, then. It's not like it's some third party - it's the creator of that universe. It's his to do with as he pleases, good or bad. If you didn't like the prequels, and can't take your rose-colored glasses off to watch the first three, perhaps just staying out of the theater is your best bet.
and i'm also betting that there will be more star wars movies made after Lucas dies. after all, star trek didn't die with Roddenberry...
You haven't watched Enterprise much, have you?
Hey, someone had to say it...
Because deep down inside, we are all just like the Comic Book Guy.
And that, my nerdy friend, is precisely why the world doesn't give a damn whether we like these movies or not.
Eh.
You don't want to appear less than heroic.
Just because there's an NDA... doesn't mean there will ever be a product.
Has everyone forgotten the horrid episode IV-and-a-half, also known as 'Star Wars Holiday Special'?
Episode I was definitely not the first sub-par installment (in our chronology at least).
I also vaguely remember the two 'Ewok Adventures' I used to watch as a kid, and enjoyed, though at the time I was not yet old enough to be a good critic. When are these three bastard children going to be re-released?
If you re-watch the original movies, then watch the new ones, they're all very much along the same vein. Simple, clear storylines; mostly predictable plot; silly alien characters and situations; and some nice special effects.
Aside from JarJar Binks I think I know what the real downfall of the Star Wars series is...
It's people who are now in their early 30s trying to relive the "magic" of their youth through, what was at the time, the biggest thing in their life. Now that they're older and the silliness isn't what they grew up on they think it's just idiotic. Star Wars was to my generation (I'm 31) what Shrek or Harry Potter is today to 8-12 year olds. If they make another Potter film in 2019 you're going to hear the same thing from the 30-something crowd about how it was different for them and the new films are only meant to appeal to the young crowd.
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...is that with Star Trek, it's no longer being guided by the man with the original vision, it's a couple of Roddenberry's lackeys and you can plainly see that they don't fully understand what he wanted Star Trek to be. (Although I will say that despite being in the obvious minority here, I really do enjoy Enterprise)
Star Wars however, only has Lucas to blame. It's as if it works better without a beginning or an end, like we'd rather look out the window into the story instead of walking down the street to see what's on the next block. It's like he's trying to come up with more story instead of letting it flow naturally, almost like his own creation doesn't make sense to him, and that is why I think the new ones don't appeal to us like the old ones did.
And Tolkein stole it from real-life Hannibal.
Repeat after me: theme and variation, theme and variation; art is not created in a vacuum.
Of course there is a line where being derivitive (as all art is to some degeree) becomes a fault. However I think that the original SW (and ESB) added more than enough new elements, or combined existing elements in new ways that it stands as a decent little film.
Cheers.
And that, my nerdy friend, is precisely why the world doesn't give a damn whether we like these movies or not.
Not to mention the fact that even if they were the most brilliantly written and directed movies ever people would still be on here bitching about them!
There's no "technically" about it. If you don't want to go see a movie, just don't fucking go. It's not that difficult.
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As for the ROTK think with the Oliphaunts, though, I think you're stretching a bit. As a previous poster mentioned, the idea for big 4 legged attack vehicles could have come from anywhere - probably Lucas' team of brainstorming concept artists.
The Luke/Legolas thing doesn't work either, because Legolas didn't do that ridiculous oliphaunt surfing stuff in the book - only in the movie that came out many years *after* TESB.
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Not to mention the fact that even if they were the most brilliantly written and directed movies ever people would still be on here bitching about them!
Oh, just like how everyone is pissing and moaning over Spider-Man II and X-Men II. Except they're not. Because they didn't stink.