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Lucas To Make New Live Action Star Wars Films
DrNASA writes "George Lucas says that he will make two more live-action films based in the "Star Wars" era.
"But they won't have members of the Skywalker family as characters," he said."
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...but there was no mention of Lucas laughing maniacally as lightning crashed behind him. It would havce seemed appropriate.
He's gone from mere milking the franchise to raping it. There's little doubt now (in my mind at least) that he has no new ideas, can't be bothered to push himself to come up with something new, so he's gonna fuck his legacy in the ass till it's seen as nothing more than some cheap little whore.
And there's nothing anyone can do to stop it, because it wont matter how bad it sucks (and it WILL suck), it will make mountains of money.
You still are correct: it is a great setting. All that Mr.Zahn has proven is that he can't write them.
You mean like when he produced good movies and chose actors properly?
Leaving film and going to TV makes me think Lucas doesn't know his own strengths. He definitely has a gift for grand scale epic imagery, but his interpersonal, small close scene kind of stuff sucks. Or to put it another way: his battle scenes are great, the emotional progress of Anakin into Vadar was crap.
We are all just people.
I discounted the article as soon it compared Rush to Poison.
It is the sound of a dead horse being well and truely flogged.
Jar Jar Binks was only added so we'd forget how much we hated the muppet from the Empire Strikes Back. I just don't want to think about what's in the new films that'll make me like Jar Jar Binks.
Who ordered that?
Would people please stop using the term "rape" in totally inappropriate and inapplicable situations?
That would be a most excellent twist of irony. After all, this is the same interview where he called Spiderman 3 silly. Spiderman 3 is a bit silly but for Lucas to call it that and then throw around the idea of doing two hour-long Star Wars movies without any Skywalkers in them?
George. Sweetie. You've worked hard, and you've earned a rest. It's alright. You can take a break. Let someone else write the script. We know you don't like actors, and that's alright too. Give some director the job of dealing with them.
We won't think any less of you.
Everyone knows that R2D2 is the true hero of Star Wars..
Repton.
They say that only an experienced wizard can do the tengu shuffle.
Do not want!
A big middle finger in the air to all those Lucas haters out there.
There are alot of stories in the Star Wars universe that can be done and done well. The KOTOR games created some really good stories. There are lots of possibilities with the old republic, Mandalorian wars, Sith Lore, etc. that would make great stories.
Lucas wrote and directed some of the best movies ever made. Only in comparison to the Original trilogy can the new Star Wars movies be considered somehow weak. Lucas still makes great movies.
For those out there griping and complaining, all I can say is save your money and go watch Delta Farce 2, or whatever else it is you are going to be watching that is so darn great.
Good point, but he lost me when he called Lucas a genius.
I would have to emphatically disagree. I've always thought that the Thrawn trilogy was some of the best Star Wars writing out there, and it would have made a great conclusion to Lucas's original idea of a trilogy of trilogies if it had been done back in the 80s or 90s when it was still possible to use the original actors.
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I kind of got discouraged by being having to hear about--stop the presses--how gorgeous Cate Blanchett was. Especially when there was a photo. I mean, I can judge the ladies for myself, thank you.
Please stop stalking me, bro.
Considering how wooden the acting was, I'm not sure the last three Star Wars films had members of the Skywalker family as 'characters'.
You are kidding me right? Zahn's first three novels were probably better than most of george's scripts. George just cant do dialog. Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command aka the Thrawn trilogy is some of the best non cannon Star Wars works period.
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Assume I was drunk when I posted this.
The Holiday Special is my favorite of all the films from the Star Wars series. I mean, it features a full-length Jefferson Starship video. None of the other films can beat that.
Maybe these new films will be a celebration of Life Day as well.
Don't get me wrong, I thought Spidey 3 was by far the worst, but is was certainly no sillier than SW Episode 1 or 2.
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