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George Lucas's Terrible Idea for Star Wars Episodes 7-9 (indiewire.com)
In an interview with James Cameron, George Lucas reveals what he'd planed for the final three Star Wars films:
"[The next three 'Star Wars' films] were going to get into a microbiotic world," he told Cameron. "There's this world of creatures that operate differently than we do. I call them the Whills. And the Whills are the ones who actually control the universe. They feed off the Force...." In terms of his storytelling, Lucas regarded individuals as "vehicles for the Whills to travel around in... And the conduit is the midi-chlorians. The midi-chlorians are the ones that communicate with the Whills. The Whills, in a general sense, they are the Force."
Lucas is confident that had he kept his company, the Whills-focused films "would have been done. Of course, a lot of the fans would have hated it, just like they did 'Phantom Menace' and everything, but at least the whole story from beginning to end would be told."
Lucas acknowledges in the interview that "Everybody hated it in 'Phantom Menace' [when] we started talking about midi-chlorians," prompting one Ars Technica editor to add "Because it was a really dumb idea." He speculates that if the final three Star Wars movies followed Lucas's original plan, "Imagine, if you can, our heroes shrinking down like the Fantastic Voyage to go meet some midi-chlorians."
Knowing Lucas's plans for the franchise "should make every Star Wars fan send a note of gratitude to whoever at Disney decided to buy the franchise and take it away and out from under Lucas' control."
Lucas is confident that had he kept his company, the Whills-focused films "would have been done. Of course, a lot of the fans would have hated it, just like they did 'Phantom Menace' and everything, but at least the whole story from beginning to end would be told."
Lucas acknowledges in the interview that "Everybody hated it in 'Phantom Menace' [when] we started talking about midi-chlorians," prompting one Ars Technica editor to add "Because it was a really dumb idea." He speculates that if the final three Star Wars movies followed Lucas's original plan, "Imagine, if you can, our heroes shrinking down like the Fantastic Voyage to go meet some midi-chlorians."
Knowing Lucas's plans for the franchise "should make every Star Wars fan send a note of gratitude to whoever at Disney decided to buy the franchise and take it away and out from under Lucas' control."
The dark side is strong with this traitor.
As bad as these ideas may have been, at least they weren't more of the 'social justice' that infects nearly all mainstream media these days.
Knowing Lucas's plans for the franchise "should make every Star Wars fan send a note of gratitude to whoever at Disney decided to buy the franchise and take it away and out from under Lucas' control."
Knowing what we got with Disney (vacuum space force protection, a complete rehash of a New Hope in TFA, every annoying SJW thing under the sun, Rose), I would rather take my chances with Lucas.
At least he writes a coherent storyline. After The Last Jedi we now have to do away with Death Stars, Star Destroyers, and their Dreadnoughts and instead have tiny little scrappy doo space ships that light speed kamikaze each other.
The problem with modern sci-fi is that reality had far surpassed fiction.
We live in an era where some people honestly believe that a woman can have a penis and scrotum, and a man can have a vagina, uterus and ovaries.
We live in an era where some people actually think that when a violent, criminal thug from the ghetto attacks a police officer, and the police officer is forced to use deadly force in self-defence, that it's the police officer who is in the wrong!
We live in an era where some people truly think that bringing in unskilled, uneducated criminals from the worst countries on earth into some of the most advanced and civilized places will somehow be a good thing.
Sci-fi never predicted any of those things. That's why sci-fi has become more and more irrelevant. Sci-fi too often is far tamer and more boring than reality ends up being.