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George Lucas Actually Consulted For The Script Of 'Star War: Episode IX' (collider.com)
The teaser trailer for Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker has been viewed 13,665,350 times since its release Friday.
Collider reminds us that while George Lucas oversaw the original Star Wars trilogy and worked on its prequel trilogy, the final three movies in the franchise had moved ahead without direct involvement from the 74-year-old director: To recap, Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012, setting Kathleen Kennedy as the new head of Lucasfilm and handing over his treatments for Episode VII, Episode VIII, and Episode IX -- the final three films in his Skywalker saga. Kennedy and J.J. Abrams reportedly threw out much of what Lucas handed over (much to the Star Wars director's chagrin) in favor of charting their own path, and Lucas has been pretty mum on the new direction of Star Wars under Disney thus far -- save for high praise heaped on Rogue One and a visit to the set of Solo after Ron Howard took over the director's chair.
But it appears everything has come full circle, as Abrams revealed at Star Wars Celebration in an interview with IGN that when he signed on to direct Star Wars 9, he consulted Lucas before beginning work on the script. "This movie had a very, very specific challenge, which was to take eight films and give an ending to three trilogies, and so we had to look at, what is the bigger story? We had conversations amongst ourselves, we met with George Lucas before writing the script," Abrams revealed...
Having seen the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailer, this makes sense. The film looks to be leaning heavily on the original trilogy given the inclusion of that medal, the Death Star, and of course the return of Emperor Palpatine. And given Abrams' comments here, it sounds like he was very strongly thinking about Star Wars 9 as a conclusion to the entire Star Wars saga.
After that conclusion, Disney CEO Bob Iger says, "There are movies in development, but we have not announced them. We will take a pause, some time, and reset because the Skywalker saga comes to an end with this ninth movie.
"There will be other Stars Wars movies, but there will be a bit of a hiatus."
Collider reminds us that while George Lucas oversaw the original Star Wars trilogy and worked on its prequel trilogy, the final three movies in the franchise had moved ahead without direct involvement from the 74-year-old director: To recap, Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012, setting Kathleen Kennedy as the new head of Lucasfilm and handing over his treatments for Episode VII, Episode VIII, and Episode IX -- the final three films in his Skywalker saga. Kennedy and J.J. Abrams reportedly threw out much of what Lucas handed over (much to the Star Wars director's chagrin) in favor of charting their own path, and Lucas has been pretty mum on the new direction of Star Wars under Disney thus far -- save for high praise heaped on Rogue One and a visit to the set of Solo after Ron Howard took over the director's chair.
But it appears everything has come full circle, as Abrams revealed at Star Wars Celebration in an interview with IGN that when he signed on to direct Star Wars 9, he consulted Lucas before beginning work on the script. "This movie had a very, very specific challenge, which was to take eight films and give an ending to three trilogies, and so we had to look at, what is the bigger story? We had conversations amongst ourselves, we met with George Lucas before writing the script," Abrams revealed...
Having seen the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailer, this makes sense. The film looks to be leaning heavily on the original trilogy given the inclusion of that medal, the Death Star, and of course the return of Emperor Palpatine. And given Abrams' comments here, it sounds like he was very strongly thinking about Star Wars 9 as a conclusion to the entire Star Wars saga.
After that conclusion, Disney CEO Bob Iger says, "There are movies in development, but we have not announced them. We will take a pause, some time, and reset because the Skywalker saga comes to an end with this ninth movie.
"There will be other Stars Wars movies, but there will be a bit of a hiatus."
From parent's PDF Link:
Today, it is unofficially known as The Tragedy of Darth Vader -- a true epic of mythical proportions that charts the rise, fall and redemption of an iconic character on a scale previously unparalleled. So gargantuan is its imprint, so audacious is the scope of the story, that it is commonly compared to classic myths of the past. Yet things weren’t always as they now are. What appeared and enchanted people who first saw and heard the words “Star Wars” is very different to the “Star Wars” that people see and hear today. It was once a tale so unlike its current embodiment that it is no longer viewed under that original
groundbreaking configuration, so different that its own creator has even distorted the truth in certain instances, essentially reshaping film and cultural history in the process.
This is "The Secret History of Star Wars." But what exactly do I mean by that? I first became aware that something was amiss sometime in 2003 when it was demonstrated by a fellow fan that Darth Vader, the iconic figure of evil, and Anakin Skywalker, the flawed Jedi who turns to evil and becomes Darth Vader, were originally conceived as separate people. Not separate constructs, as they now might be said to exist in the saga "from a certain point of view" -- but entirely different characters, totally independent of one another, each existing in some imagined history within the same narrative time and space. Indeed, a cursory evaluation of Lucas’ own early notes and script material, which have been published and available for many years now, reveals that Darth Vader and the father of Luke Skywalker were characters that existed together, onscreen as separate entities. Clearly, the history of the early story differed drastically from the account in common knowledge, which held that the story had been more or less blueprinted in the mid-1970’s. Now, however, it became clear to me that such tales of epic planning had more to them than meets the eye.
TL;DR: Lucas just ripped off Hidden Fortress, and tried to make a Sci-Fi serial "cowboys in space" like Buck Rogers, where you'd find yourself picking up a story from the middle ep: IV, as if you'd missed part of the story (as was common when going to watch a movie, that turned out to be a sci-fi serial). The look of C3PO is from the classic Metropolis, etc. Lucas has admittedly always hated writing, and sucked at it, but had some accidental chemistry enough to pull off Star Wars - A New Hope, and his writers later fixed up the plot as they made shit up going along. When ep I to III came out it was sold as having been missing pieces to a whole story that we didn't have tech to create at the time, but that was just blatant propaganda and lies. If you consult with George Lucas about Star Wars or any script, you'd just as well ask a magic 8 ball.
Let me clue you in on a little secret: Apotheosis is the act of creating an Avatar and attributing to it works of the many who stay hidden beyond a veil of secrecy. In this way a Great Work (Alchemically, Mangum Opus), can appear to have been the work of a single genius with much more skill than the average person. For example take William Shakespeare (Will of IAM (God), Shaking his Spear) for example. Or J. K. Rowling (who added the 11 of Apollo to her name as the 11th letter just prior to publishing the books). "J/K, Rowling on the floor, laughing my ass off..." The name game is often employed when making such a god from a Man, such as "Einstein" which is "Ein Stein", part of a phrase in German which means "Dumb as a Stone" in English. The effect is that the common man, not in on the secret ways, will lament and accept that he's just not smart enough to compete with the works of the "geniuses" of the upper class.
So, TFA is just propaganda. Like so many others, George Lucas is just a front man for others, like Elon Musk:
The Martian government was directed by ten men, the leader of