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Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts
ageoffri writes: When Star Wars fans learned that George Lucas was making the prequels, most were filled with excitement and anticipation. When Episodes 1-3 were actually released, many found them unsatisfying, and became disillusioned with Lucas's writing. Now, it appears Disney felt the same way. Though they bought Lucasfilm and began production on Episode 7, they weren't interested in using the scripts Lucas had already worked on. In an interview, he said, "The ones that I sold to Disney, they came up to the decision that they didn't really want to do those. So they made up their own. So it's not the ones that I originally wrote [on screen in Star Wars: The Force Awakens]." After what happened with the prequels, that may be for the best — but others may worry about Episode 7's plot being entirely in the hands of Disney and JJ Abrams.
Statements like that one unfortunately lives to regret. Lucas dropped the ball on the prequels, but I'm pretty sure JJ got hit in the head once with the ball and suffered long term damage.
> When Episodes 1-3 were actually released, many found them unsatisfying
Riiiight, unsatisfying. That's exactly the right description to use.
That explains why there is so much lens flare in his movies. He's trying to recreate what he sees every day.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I thought everybody knew that Palpatine was just the fall guy and Darth-Darth Binks was the real power behind the Empire.
What are you talking about? Shatner never directed a Star Trek movie. Although I have sometimes wondered why the Star Trek franchise went straight from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. I guess someone at Paramount forgot how to count. But that's OK, IV and VI were both good movies.
No way. I hear JJ is saving the Kardashians for the DS9 reboot.
Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
Are you saying that kids are NOT interested in the drama of unjust taxation of trade routes?
But then you have to just remember how awful JJ's Star Trek movies were.
Really? The first one was terrible because nothing can live up to the expectations of angry nerds.
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http://www.theonion.com/video/trekkies-bash-new-star-trek-film-as-fun-watchable,14333/
Reasons to throw out Lucas scripts:
There's really nothing they can do to make it worse than anything Lucas has done, except more Jar Jar and ewoks.