Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Lucas To Make New Live Action Star Wars Films

Posted by samzenpus on from the please-stop-killing-the-franchise dept.

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."

20 of 371 comments (clear)

  1. Oh, boy! by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm already in line to miss them.

    --
    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
    1. Re:Oh, boy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      It is very likely that the piece simply refers to the two television series being put together, lucas calls them "live action films for tv". Try the dreaded aint-it-cool-news.com site for more details. (Nothing new to see here, move along or be pain-rayed...)

    2. Re:Oh, boy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'll probably go and watch them. In the cinema I will be screaming out implorations to merciful Allah for one thing, and one thing only. I don't care if Lucas plays all the parts, I don't care if he draws the lasers in crayon. All I want is the death of Jar Jar Binks.

    3. Re:Oh, boy! by digitig · · Score: 5, Funny

      "These are not the movies you are looking for."

      --
      Quidnam Latine loqui modo coepi?
    4. Re:Oh, boy! by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 5, Funny
      Don't be so quick to laugh when someone calls a self-made millionaire a genius.

      By that measure, Britney Spears is a genius.

  2. parts 3 and 4 by megacia · · Score: 5, Funny

    of the ewok series! go wicket!

  3. Excellent idea! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hopefully he will take a cue and make it similar to the "Holiday Special".

    I can't wait to see the dynamics of Jar-Jar's family!

  4. Cool! by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The Return Of Jar-Jar" and "The Children of Jar-Jar" will probably kill Star Wars this time around.

  5. I checked TFA... by glittalogik · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...but there was no mention of Lucas laughing maniacally as lightning crashed behind him. It would havce seemed appropriate.

  6. Best Headline Ever!! by rlp · · Score: 5, Funny

    On Topic: Best headline ever.

    --
    [Insert pithy quote here]
  7. I feel a disturbance in the force... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    as if millions of Star Wars fans cried out in horror and fainted.

  8. Re:A bold new direction from Lucas by ArsonSmith · · Score: 5, Interesting

    luckily Lucas did little more than sign off on The Clone Wars cartoon of which was really good. I'm not a rabid Lucas molested my inner child type, but I do see that EpI was horrible, EpII was slightly less horrible, EpIII improved upon that to be merely bad. He is improving, and I did really enjoy 2 & 3 despite the warts.

    --
    Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
  9. Re:I have always said by geekoid · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How cool would a Film Noir in Mos Eisley be?

    Or a wandering Jedi, a'la Zatoichi?

    The story of recovering the Death Star plans?

    --
    The Kruger Dunning explains most post on /. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
  10. Penny Arcade by Gamefreak99 · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20040922l. jpg

  11. Re:Dramatic pause by SpectreHiro · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe the Backstroke of the West version is a little more appropriate.

    Do not want!

    --
    You can't win, Darth. If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
  12. Re:Just what I dreamed of! by cashman73 · · Score: 5, Funny
    The only plot of a successful Jar Jar Binks-based movie might be something like, Gungans on a Plane! They could re-cast Samuel L. Jackson back into his role as Mace Windu. It would be an epic tale of the Jedi Master in his early days battling the evil Gungans on the planet Naboo, ultimatel forcing their whole civilization into exile to live beneath the waters of the planet forever, hoping they'd be forgotten (until discovered in ep. 1 by Qui Gon and Obi Wan).

    "I am sick and tired of these mother-f**king Gungans . . . on this mother-f**king starship!"

    Hmm, come to think if it, I might actually pay to see this movie! ;-)

  13. Skywalkers irrelevent by Repton · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Everyone knows that R2D2 is the true hero of Star Wars..

    --
    Repton.
    They say that only an experienced wizard can do the tengu shuffle.
  14. Re:A bold new direction from Lucas by Original+Replica · · Score: 5, Funny

    of course I am also George Lucas's bitch.

    If you were a whiney bitch, you could be a lead character.

    --
    We are all just people.
  15. How about the story of the contractors ... by soupinpa · · Score: 5, Funny

    who worked on the death star. Tell us the story of how those contracts came in, and follow these contractors through to the destruction of the second death star. Perhaps Randall will stop ranting about how they were innocent bystanders in this conflict.

  16. Re:I have always said by Schmiggy_JK · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    --
    Insert something witty here...