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Star Wars TV Show, And An Unmade Trilogy
Necromutant writes "Mark Hamill comments about Episodes 7, 8, and 9 really got everyone's attention. Mark told those in attendance what Lucas told him the third trilogy would be about. Also confirmed today officially, a Star Wars television show coming in the future. -- I don't know if I should be happy or scared..."
Lucas is going to milk this story for all it's worth. He won't be satisfied until Star Wars is the campiest sci-fi series ever put on film. If he would have stopped after the first 3 movies, he would have been remembered as one of the greatest sci-fi producers ever. After the first 2 new episodes came out, the franchise has started to become the ass end of sci-fi jokes. I don't see another 3 improving the image of the series.
Has anyone else wondered if there's a competition between Star Wars and Star Trek as to who can drive their respective franchises into the ground farther and faster?
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Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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Scared. Definitely scared - maybe I'm a pessimist, but I think that this will be just more commercialization.
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So we watch 4,5,6, and think its about Luke. We watch 1,2,3, and realize that its about Vader. We watch 7,8,9 and maybe we will finally realize it's just about an old man who doesn't know when to let someone else take over.
Mark told those in attendance what Lucas told him the third trilogy would be about.
How Long ago did Lucas tell Mark Hamill about this, was this sometime back when they were originally filming?
Think Mel Brooks would actually mind that?
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It was like a million geeks crying out in unison, then suddenly disappointed.
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In George Lucas' interview with Charlie Rose two days ago, he very firmly stated "no more Star Wars movies," he wants to do other films. Take that for what it's worth...
Dispite all the rants, If Episodes 7, 8 and 9 were made, they'd all do well at the box office. So is there any reason why they won't do it?
Good creative shows have been pulled because of money and stereotypical, nonsensical tripe put in replacement all in the name of money.
So whats makes SW diffrent?
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The problem is of course, most all TV shows and movies produced are crap. And I dont think the SW TV show is any more or less likely to be crappy TV than any other sci-fi/fantasy show.
What I find strange about this article is that supposedly Mark made these comments on Wednesday of this past week.
On Friday, Mark did two live radio interviews in my market to promote the upcoming DVD releases. In both interviews the host asked about the next trilogy. Although he did not give the same answer word-for-word, he basically said, "I don't know, most of the time the fans know more than I do"
Did Mark say too much on Wednesday and was told to keep his mouth shut?
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There would be problems with the fact that the actors are older than their characters are portrayed in the Zahn books, but hey, George is a wizard with CGI, let's see him do something useful with it instead of creating more characters like Jar-Jar Binks or editing the cantina scene so that Greedo shoots first.
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I would like to coin a new phrase for Lucas's continued desecration of Star Wars: "Beating a dead tauntaun".
Holy cow, hopefully they'll make it a reality TV show... I can see it now...
Six strangers live inside the star wars universe (A huge studio in Hollywood) for six months, where they can become a bounty hunter, pod racer, force-user (only for the very gifted!) Smuggler (Please, no real 'spice' or other illegal substances on the set) among many other professions!
Each 'period' consists of a voting day, where each player votes "the most annoying" player off the studio.
The winner recieves royalty rights to the Star Wars franchise after George Lucas has died, but 50% of the profits MUST be used to beautify his burial ground.
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I could do without a star wars TV show. I would be much more interested in a show starring "The Star Wars Kid".
I'm certain that is the only reason Jar Jar Binks ever survived being edited out of Episode 1 is that no one would dare say to George, "Uh, George, you may not have realized it, but this character is nothing more than an offensive racial stereotype that will not go down well with anyone."
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
If you like Brian Daley, check out the NPR Audio Series done by Brian. Especially the first one of Star Wars. If the TV series is 1/2 as good as these tapes, It will be worth watching.
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OMG, Chewbacca reciting his favourite poetry to a horde of cute muppet tribbles, as they rally for a devastating strike against the evil Klingon empire (Episode VII). I think I'm calling in sick.
I got the file, and aside from a mention that Lucas originally told him that there would be three trilogies, and asking him on the earlier set if he wanted to be in Ep9 (to be made around 2011), there's nothing new in there. It's a lot of talk about what went on behind the scenes in standard studio politics.
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Make an animated series
CGI the ships etc...
Hire as many old & current cast members to do the voices.
One hour long each episode. If they did the Zahn books like this they could have an entire series plotted out and it would be a huge hit.
Also, needs to be an HBO series. With Lucas' stand on not wanting to be influenced by studios, wouldn't it make sense to not want censors or suits influenceing the product? I'm sure HBO does much of the same, but I bet they would steer his old ass into a great product.
Episode 7 (The Voyage Home): Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) is now old and broke. After 2 decades of training new Jedi, he now sits around on Dagoba all day complaining about humidity. One day he is contacted by his geriatric friend Han Solo (now King of a planet called Indiana). He tells Luke that a new Sith named Darth Glukas has developed a time machine and has sent back a droid called THX1138 to kill young Anakin in a time-period called "EPISODE 1". Solo explains that if THX1138 isn't stopped, Anakin and his servant Jar Jar Binks will be killed, thus making Luke cease to exist. After a long and perilous journey (where they encounter humpback whales for some reason) Luke and Solo defeat THX1138, but learn on their return that that was Darth Glukas' plan from the beginning. Now Glukas can create an army made entirely of something he calls "director's cuts" and steal all the money in the universe. This will allow him to buy the entire republic and restore the empire. Luke and SOlo are bummed out as we begin;
EPISODE 8 (Lost in Space); Luke and Solo must defeat Darth Glukas' army of director's cuts, but they have no idea where they are or even WHAT they are, so they begin searching randomly throughout the worlds of the republic. They come across a planet and discover a family of beautiful humans who claim they are called the Robinsons, and their ship is the "Jupiter 2". Although the ship they have looks nothing like the one in the republic database, and the Robinsons are far too pretty and have the vacuous acting talent of bannana slugs, they do point out that they have seen the dark side. They point our geratric twosome in the direction of Darth Dr. Smith, who is Darth Glukas' apprentice. Smith doesn't look human at all, but he does look a helluva lot better than the crappy paint on Darth Maul (and he does have the cool black robe) so our duo fights with Darth Smith and strike him down for questioning. After Darth Smith stops whining about his injury "Oh the pain, the pain!" He tells them Darth Glukas and the directors cuts can be found on a planet called Skywalker Ranch and that Darth Glukas will surely defeat them and buy the entire republic unless our heroes can get more help. Off they go
EPISODE 9 (Finally over); Luke and Solo go to get help. They stop at the planet of Angles, where they find Princess Leah (in tight vinyl) and her band of female jedi (Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu). Accompanying them is Leah's Obi Wan (jedi teacher), Obi Wan Morpheus and his assistant Neo. All 8 of them fly to planet Skywalker Ranch and confront Darth Glukas, but alas, Glukas has a suprise for them. He has THREE young apprentice siths working for him. Darth Elrond (Hugo Weaving), Darth Psycho (Crispien Glover), and Darth Bitch (Demi Moore). An epic battle ensues where almost everyone dies while fighting in slow motion with lots of wire fighting and physics-ignoring acrobatics. In the end, Luke and Glukas are the only ones left. Luke tells Glukas he has lost, but Glukas laughs and says "Lost? My boy you have much to learn about the dark side. I have been following your every move throughout this entire epic with hidden cameras. Your every action has been a part of a thing I call reality television, and I have already made my billions on this tripe. All is lost. I now have the money to buy the republic."
It all does seem lost, but then, Luke informs him; "It is you who has lost Glukas, I have known about your treachery all along, and informed the one force in the universe more powerful than you." From the wings enters Obi Wan Schlocky- Ending (Stephen Spielberg) "I thought you might try a "sad" ending Glukas, I have prepared for this moment with a series of horrible sequels of my own. We can't have people believing that any story can end without a happy ending! This is my mission, my destiny." With that, Obi Wan Schlocky-ending pulls out his glowing blue......checkbook and buys the entire Star Wars series, (copyright, and merchandising!) with the money he made from Indiana Jones 4,5,6,7,8,9, and 10 a
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Q: if george decided to do a 7,8,9 - would you do it?
MH: He talked about doing 7,8,9. You know when I first did this, it was four trilogies. 12 movies! And out on the desert there's big time between setups 'cause of whatever, ya know, the robots are... can you imagine robots rolling mechanically- oil on sand in the desert? That's the kind of stuff you don't [inaudible] we should prepare for this, so they're digging out sand and putting planks and moving the cameras so you can't see he's on wood. Lots of free time. And George was talking about this whole... and I'm listening to this thing, cause I said, "Why are you starting at 4,5,6? It's crazy." [imitates Lucas] 'Well, that's the most commercial section of the movie.' I went, "Oh, ok." Yeah, he said that the first one, or the first trilogy's darker and more serious. The impression that I got, he said, [imitates Lucas] "How would you like to be in episode 9?" This is 1976. I said, "When's that gonna be?" Heh. [imitates Lucas] "Like, two thousand, eleven." [laughter]
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Particularly the Thrawn Trilogy. God, would I love that...Hey, Thrawn and Palleon are confirmed to exist by Lucas, anybody remember the opening movie in TIE Fighter?
And for a time it was rumored to be in the works, too.
This isn't really news at all. Mark doesn't say what the next trilogy is about. I'm not sure why it's being reported that way. He just talks about how Lucas asked him to do four trilogies total. This was back in 1976. Mark mentions being in Episode 9 and handing his light sabre off to the new Jedi. Nothing more.
Can't somebody here write up a quick summary of what is said in the MP3 by Hammil ? I dunno for you all, but 1) I can't access the web site in the article summary 2) anyway the MP3 I downloaded from a mirror is so down in quality that as a foreigner which understand only oxford english, it is useless to me.
My kingdom for a quick summary in WRITTEN WORD. Ok maybe not my kingdom but at least my thanks...
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George Lucas didn't invent the prequel-- he was imitating the epic style of starting the action "in medias res". Virgil, for instance, devotes the second book of his Aeneid to describing events (the fall of Troy) that predated the narrative in the first book (Juno's storm, and the landing of the Trojan fleet in Africa).
Moreover, Asimov's two prequels predate Lucas's prequels.
Honestly, let it go. If you want to complain about the pillaging and raping of a franchise, go complain about Star Trek.
GL: Thanks for seeing me, Harvey. I've got this great idea for a TV show, and I wanted you to be the first to hear it.
HW: Okay, George, shoot.
GL: Great, okay. Picture this: the camera pans in to the gates of Dathomir Imperial prison, at night, where a crowd has gathered, holding picket lines. They are holding a candlelight vigil, and it is raining: the faces in the crowds are lit up like Japanese lanterns.
HW: Japanese lanterns, nice. Okay, I'm listening.
GL: The gates of the prison open, revealing a hair covered humanoid in a bandolier. It's a wookie.
HW: A wha?
GL: A wookie: but not just any wookie. It's Chewbacca. The crowd has been waiting for him. He begins to speak.
HW: What does he say?
GL: He says: RowRWAROOR.
HW: Uh-huh. Why's he in prison again?
GL: He was imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. And now he's out to right the wrong: one wookie against the world who wronged him. On his planet, Kashyyyk, there's a special breed of justice. Eighteen thrusters of justice.
HW: Keep going.
GL: Cut to the forests of Endor. Our hero, Chewbacca touches down on the Endor moon, and enters a tree-top Ewok village. He is crowned king of the Ewoks! The Ewoks party hard, getting drunk on tree-root ale and rubbing up against tree-bark until the static electricity sends them flying across the clearing. He speaks to the crowd of drunk of drunk Ewoks.
HW: What does he say?
GL: He says: RowRWAROOR.
HW: I like it.
GL: Shmi, after giving her son Anakin away to Jedi training, starts going a bit wild and gets a name for herself on Tatooine. She started hanging out with wookies, and ended up going steady with Chewbacca's grandfather. Cut to a Christmas dinner scene, where Shmi and Chewbacca Snr. are meeting Shmi's parents for the first time.
HW: Sort of Guess Who's Coming To Dinner meets My Stepmother Is An Alien?
GL: Exactly. So, can I have some money?
HW: Sure, take these two big bags of money and make your show.
GL: Woohoo!
I know nothing of this at all. But it would seem to the casual observer that sci-fi should be a sub-genre of fantasy. Quite simply, where's the science in a fantasy tale about elves and faeries etc.?
I'm of the belief that if it isn't this way allready it damn well should be for sanity's sake.
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When was porn out?
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What irked me was that in one interview with Lucas and a couple of other Hollywood heavyweights (I think Copola was there, as well as someone else extremely famous...it looked like an old homes get-together, seriously!), Lucas mentions that he didn't want to direct TPM. But then he said all his (ass-kissing, upsucking) friends told him he could do it, no, he /should/ do it, so he did.
Now maybe I'm reading way to much into this one offhand comment, but something about the way he said it made me think that Lucas knew he wasn't that good a director (eps 5&6 where the best SW, ep 4 was good because it was new, not because the directing was any good), and the only reason he did direct TPM was because his friends convinced him that he should do it anyway.
-- Waht? Tehr's a preveiw buottn?
porn is so in right now
When was porn out?
Porn is both in AND out.
porn is so in right now. since there are so few jedi left it could their adventures in repopulating the jedi population across the galaxy
Finally, we'll get to find out just how Anakin Skywalker was concieved!
People are constantly telling him what they think is wrong. That's why we get Greedo shooting first. That's why the Ewok song gets cut (yes, I liked the Ewok song. It's a God damn childrens' movie people). Watch the commentary on Ep2. People bitched left and right about Yoda kicking ass. Did it rock? Yes, I think that it did. Lucas sucks most when he listens to his critics.
This isn't to say Lucas is some genious who ought to be left along to create. For God's sake, somebody should have pointed out that if Ep 1 was going to be a childrens' movie, Ep 2 damn well better be. And how the hell did Natile Portman get hired? Anyway, both movies seem to me more like a bunch of cool ideas with a script hung on them than the other way around. But I think the worst stuff (mitochondrians and virgin births) where crappy reponses to critics.
As for Jar-Jar, I think he was something the Special Effects guys really wanted to do. A completely CG character who was also totally believable. It's really quite a feat, it's just a pity the accomplishment is overshadowed by how god damned annoying he his. Like I said, lots of cool ideas, no solid foundation to hang 'em on.
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