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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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I wonder if George Lucas will revise history again and say that he *DID* originally plan to film 9 chapters from the beginning.
The story on this has changed a few times.
Sunny
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If you have a chance, look at the special features where Lucas tries to explain how basically every scene from Star Wars was copied from Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress.
Except for the laser guns, it's the same story in the same film. Even the music is similar.
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Grand Admiral Thrawn would be awesome to watch. The storly line of this trilogy was well thought out and written well. Of course the main participants of Luke and the gang came in and saved the day like they do in most of the post Episode 6 novels, they would have to get others to play their parts since they are all way too old. The guy who played Chewbacca has a clause in his contract that he must be in any sequels after RotJ, I believe I read that on starwars.com but could be mistaken.
Actually, George Lucas wrote and produced the Indiana Jones series, but Spielberg directed them.
Maybe Spielberg should be the one to direct the new Star Wars?
The Indy movies are directed by master Spielberg. Lucas is an FX man and, arguably, a decent editor. As a director he's a hack, as a writer he's way too quick to "borrow" story elements from classic works and other sources.
I almost fell on my butt when I saw the giant elephants in Return Of The King. "You mean Lucas stole the AT-ATs from Tolkien??" I had always thought the idea of elephant-like walking tanks was brilliant, turns out he stole that too.
All those years I thought Star Wars was great art, turns out it's just pulp. Factor in budget and expectations, Clones literally tops the list as worst movie ever made.
Sam
The storyline is kinda left wide open. I mean if Anakin was supposed to bring balance to the force, wouldn't that imply the between Luke and Lea, one becomes Jedi and the other Sith?
....oh well, just musing.....
I'm wondering if not having all your original parts ultimately makes you more vulnerable to the dark side as well? - which would imply that Luke would ultimately turn to the dark side (presumably after training Lea).
Might explain why Dooku did not kill Anakin outright but instead severed his arm and could imply that Vader cut off Luke's hand by design as well.
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I disagree.
ANH: good
ESB: bad
ROTJ: excellent
TPM: awful
AOTC: good
And I am not a Star Wars geek. I'm a bit more subjective, in that Star Wars has never ruled my life.
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Well, according to rumor, a while back (in the neighborhood of a year ago, maybe?) Spielberg actually requested of Lucas that he be allowed to make episodes 7, 8, and 9. *Supposedly* of course. Also, Lucas didn't say that the sequals wouldn't be made, he said he was tired, and he didn't have it in him to make more Star Wars movies. So, maybe this is news that he intends to turn the reigns over to someone else.
Q: Will there be a book about Harry's Mum and Dad, about how they became friends and how they died?
A: So it would be "Harry Potter: Episode One". [Laughter]. No, but a lot of people have asked that. It is all George Lucas's fault. You won't need a prequel; by the time I am finished, you will know enough. I think it would be shamelessly exploitative to do that. I am sure that Mr Lucas is doing it only for artistic reasons, but in my case I think that by the time you have had the seven books you will know everything you need to know for the story.
"Artist reasons" -- LOL. I love JKR.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
ANH: good
ESB: bad
ROTJ: excellent
TPM: awful
AOTC: good
And I am not a Star Wars geek.
I think you meant to say "I'm not a person with good taste in films" =P.
How can you prefer a movie like RotJ over ESB? Let's compare:
ESB:
- Has Boba Fett, the ultimate badass.
- Has a dark, mature storyline.
- Has excellent writing and acting.
RotJ:
- Turns Boba Fett into a dork in armour who gets killed by a blind man (although the SE "macking on the alien chicks" scene slightly redeems him).
- Ewoks. WTF? WT*F*?
The Battle of Endor and Luke/Vader duel were excellent, but overall it can't touch ESB or ANH.
So far the prequel trilogy has been incredibly disappointing. About all I can watch of TPM is the Maul/Jinn/Kenobi fight. AotC has a few decent scenes. The opening is excellent, parts of the chase through Coruscant are good (although I could do without the lame dialogue), and the battle at the end would be awesome if it weren't for the incredibly stupid C3PO jokes.
If the prequels had come out at the same time as the original trilogy I might be more forgiving, but there have been *so* many good films since then that combine that level of action with deep storyline and characters (e.g. Blade Runner, Heat, Aliens, Firefly).
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...because he has always taken the profit from the last to finance the next one. Episode III will be almost a break even at best. Figure a production cost of $150 million, and that is about what its domestic gross will be give or take $25 million.
He has trashed the franchise so badly be making drawn out, boring movies that even Jar-Jar wouldn't watch the next one.
Call me a troll, but I really liked 4-6, but I did not enjoy 1, and I detested 2. It is not because I am older either. My 7 year old would rather watch IV than any other one.
Perhaps the saddest thing of all is that Genndy Tartakovsky made the 25 minute long animated Clone Wars and it was better and more gripping in every way. Episode 19 was the best two minutes of Star Wars ever made. Lucus just doesn't have it anymore. Simple as that.
The notion of 9 films (3 trilogies) has been around since before The Empire Strikes Back was released. At one point, an article in Analog stated that there were plans for 12 films, but I've never seen this claim repeated.
At the very first screening I went to, the 'Episode 4' title was missing. This was added as soon as it was obvious Lucas had a hit on his hands.
Actually, I've read a comic of Star Wars that shows a few things:
1. The Emperor is not dead. He can come back after death by entering a new host body (He admits it's painful and unleasant, but such is the cost of supposed "immortality."
2. Luke DOES fall to the Dark Side, but it is quite brief and is pulled back by his JEDI sister. (Yes, Leia becomes a Jedi... as do her kids, I believe)
I'll agree that the Matrix sequels were rather disappointing, but not nearly to the extent that the Star Wars prequels were. I went ahead and saw Matrix: Revolutions, although I wish now that I had waited for the dollar theater, but I have no intention of bothering to see SW3 at all.
Man, you people bitch way too much. With the exception of Jar Jar, I thought SW1 was pretty good. The pod racers were just cool. Not like anyone here is going to write a better script to explain the beginnings of Darth Vader anyway...
SW2 was all about special effects. The idea of an army of clones is interesting. Explains why all stormtroopers wear masks (so you don't have to see the same face everyplace).
Rarely have I seen a sci-fi movie as utterly awful as Attack of the Clones.
You have apparently never seen any Trek movie then...