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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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His work on the last couple movies has been outstanding. I hope he keeps directing them himself. May the force be with him!
"Hokey moneygrabbing and ancient storylines are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid."
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Funny how a couple hundred million can make someone change their minds :)
On the otherside its all just rumors until the cameras start rolling....
drunk chemists
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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?
Not only has George Lucas destroyed our Star Wars past, but the future as well!
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Lucas pass out NDAs at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
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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Without ten more years of new Star Wars, whatever would fans have to complain about?
...Also, I didn't know Buggalo could fly.
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.
www.kitchengeek.com -- Nosh for
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!!!
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
Not content with raping the childhood memories of fans of the original movies, he's now doing the same for fans of the prequels. All seventeen of them.
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.
Lucas Arts personelle are just signing NDA's...that say they specifically cannot discuss Star Wars 7, 8 and 9.
I can neither confirm, nor deny that statement.
Although this begs the question, should we ponder if it will happen or if we want it to happen?
I agree with everyone equally.
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Wau!!! A trilogy of trilogies!!! This breaking news brought to you by theforce.net, a bunch of rabid fanboys who certainly are unbiased and don't want this to be true more than anything else.
Wake me when Lucasfilm makes an announcement.
Greebo? Greebo??
Go stand in the corner and think about what you've done.
I've got a bad feeling about this...
Have you read my blog lately?
"If I don't make them, someone else might later," said Lucas. "I want to be sure I'm the one to fuck them up."
Is it possible to fashion my lightsabre into a noose?
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I submitted this story last night, and it didn't get posted.
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.
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.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
There were supposed to be 9 chapters anyway, at least thats what the original intention was.
I don't know when the idea got popularized that there were going to be only 6 movies.
At this point tho, I think there are many who have a firm belief that there are only the original 3, and I for one can't blame them.
hmm she was hot 20 years ago, but that was 20 years ago. will she be up to the task again?
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
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.
he could shit in a bucket and hopeless sw geeks would fight each other for it
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.
A goal is a dream with a deadline
Luca$ ha$ excellent rea$on$ for making $uch a trilogy. After all, he ha$ $uch a large $tory to tell....
The only reason we have the rights we have is that people just like us died to gain those rights. -- Cheerio Boy
Carrie Fisher can play the harpy Leia. Billy Dee Williams and Harrison Ford will make great smugglers in dotage. This could be really dark. . .
sig semper tyrannis!
...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...
You don't want to appear less than heroic.
Just because there's an NDA... doesn't mean there will ever be a product.
Meesa thought it couldnt get any worse... Meesa was wrong...
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?
Maybe Spielberg should be the one to direct the new Star Wars?
And through the miracle of CGI, all the roles will be played by Tom Hanks.
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.
The movie will be called Star Wars: Episode VII: The Blatant Grab For Cash
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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.
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
...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.
I thought it was fairly well known that the inspiration for the AT-ATs are those giant cargo loaders in the Port of Oakland. Nothing to do with Tolkein (or even elephants) at all.
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than that of whether a submarine can swim" -EWD
The article has a picture of him laughing, but doesn't say whether it was actually taken at the bank? Can anyone confirm?
-Zipwow
I don't know which is more depressing, that 2/3 didn't care enough to vote, or that 1/2 of those that did are crazy.
Recent experience suggests that it will be a piece of sith.
...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.
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.
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)
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.
[javac] 100 errors
EPISODE VII
A CURIOUS MALADY
Soon after the dubiously abrupt collapse of the Empire, the Galaxy finds itself confronting a new threat. Emboldened by their decisive victory at the Battle of Endor, militant EWOKS are wreaking terror on several helpless star systems, whose colossal battleships and armored troops are of no more avail against the Ewoks' invincible logs and pointy sticks than the Empire's Walkers and Stormtroopers proved to be.
To resist the Ewok juggernaut, General HAN SOLO has volunteered to lead the armies of the Foboombah system, but his leadership has not proven valuable, since the Ewoks don't use blasters and he inexplicably refuses to fire the first shot. Nor can LUKE SKYWALKER be of assistance. Not only is he forbidden to instruct a new generation of Jedi, on account of his master's deathbed edict that "the last of the Jedi will [he] be," but he is also battling depression and hallucinations of ghosts who tell him profound-sounding things that usually turn out to be total bull a few years later.
Meanwhile, Princess LEIA SKYWALKER-SOLO-CALRISSIAN is leading a diplomatic mission to Naboo, to ask for assistance from the only race with a military track record that matches that of the undefeated Ewoks; only the GUNGAN arsenal of slingshots and superballs is sufficiently primitive to stand a chance against the Ewoks' own weaponry. And Captain WEDGE ANTILLES prepares to attack the Ewoks on the Forest Moon itself, accompanied by two Jawas and a malfunctioning R2 unit, on the principle that the victory always, without fail, goes to the smallest party involved....
What Would Jesus Do
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I could go on, but I just remembered I don't care.
*ahem*
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Oh, never mind. My soul has already been destroyed by this pointless, unfunny, whorish beaten-dead-horse of a post! I hope you're happy.
*sniff*
CBG: Last night's episode of Itchy & Scratchy was the Worst Episode Ever. Rest assured, I was on the internet within moments, registering my disgust throughout the world.
BART: Hey man, what gives you the right to complain?
CBG: As a loyal fan, I feel they owe me.
Bart: They've given you hours of entertainment for free. How could they possibly owe you? If anything, you owe them.
CBG: (pause) Worst. Episode. Ever.
> Mel will have to find a replacement for John Candy. That'll be tough.
Most actors today aren't half the man he was...
Chris Mattern
scene: George Lucas and a horde of head-bobbing clones are all seated around a table.
(you, a dashing job applicant, walk in, head bobbing already like some dashboard toy)
George: Hi there!
You: Yes.
George (flicking through CV): so, it says here that you have no experience with the film industry at all--
You: Yes!
George:-- but I see here listed under hobbies that you are completely malleable, have no free will and enjoy words starting with Y?
You: Yes!
George (stroking fat-neck hiding beard, then punches this question out with a keen gaze and pointed finger): Hrm, so tell me your greatest skill!
You: Yes!
George (leaning back to crowd of yes-men): We gotta hire this guy.
Crowd of goons: Yes! (with head bobbing)
One goon trying to impress: Ya-huh! (George's scowl wipes the smile off his face)
You: Yes!