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."

Comments

Hmm...

[shirai]

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.

Re:Hmm...

[nine-times]

I thought the story was always the same.

Nope. I remember numerous interviews to the effect of:

When IV-VI came out, he was saying "Oh, yeah, I actually have 9 movies written already. I just shot the middle 3." Years later: "Well, the middle 3 are already done. I have the first 3 all written, but I haven't quite figured out all of the last 3." Years later: "Well, I've just finished writing Episodes I-III. The only thing I ever wrote was episodes IV-VI. I had in mind a general idea of what had happened before, and I just thought it would be clever to start in "Episode IV" so that people would feel like they came in part way through an epic story. However, I think there are neat ideas in there, so I'm going to make more movies. There isn't any such thing as episodes VII-IX." Between episodes I and II: "I'm still writing episode II, and when I'm done with episode II, I'll start on episode III. There was never going to be anything after episode VI. I think you could do more, but I'm old and tired and don't want to do it."

Not that I know what to make of all that

The Hidden Fortress

[duffbeer703]

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.

Re:worse than the prequels

[wigle]

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?

Re:worse than the prequels

[SamSeaborn]

have a little faith in lucas... i still like indiana jones, dammit!

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

Critiques of the movie aside....

[StressGuy]

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?

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. ....oh well, just musing.....

Re:Critiques of the movie aside....

[mesmartyoudumb]

Normally I don't let the ultra Star Wars Dork side of me out, but you have blasphemed!

Before Anakin, The Jedi council reigned supreme, there were thousands of "light" Jedi, Whom were trained by Yoda in Jedi Academies.

I don't know what Obi Wan and Quigon Jin were thinking when they said "Anikin will bring balance to the force", Because well..the scales were tipped heavily in their favor. They hadn't even seen a Sith in hundreds of years.

Anakin brought balance alright, He became Darth Vader, the most powerful jedi ever, In fact - He, with the help of Bohba Fett, killed Jedi by the thousands.

He killed everyone but Obi wan and Yoda, Leaving 2 Jedi and 2 Sith. There can never be more than 2 of each now, This is why ObiWan died, And why Yoda died; To keep the balance. Master and Apprentice.

Stop laughing..I'm cool in real life, honest! :(

Re:Didn't Spielberg express interest in directing?

[nine-times]

He should hand the reigns over to Spielberg - at least for one movie.

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.

J.K. Rowling on George Lucas

[Reality Master 101]

Being the HP geek that I am, I immediately thought of JK Rowling's recent rather hilarious comment about George Lucas:

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.

Re:No thanks.

[blincoln]

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).