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Is Lucas now deciding to change his mind and do Episode 7-9 after all?
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I hope not. I want someone who'll focus more on story and not get carried away by CGI graphics, like lucas did with the episodes 1, 2 and most likely 3. Maybe he can change but I doubt. Since there have been so many new advancements since the original trilogy came out, Lucas seems to favor special effects instead of story. Like a kid going after all the latest toys.
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The Greed can have a strong influence on the Force-minded...
The Greed can have a strong influence on the Force-minded...
Lucas owns the rights and everything so...
...as long as he is alive, he will be directing them if he decides to make them. These re his babies. The only reason he had someone else direct Empire and Jedi is because he was too busy running the newly formed Lucasfilm empire. Now he has a bunch of people helping him and he can devote the time to directing, as you can see from this trilogy. Again, it may not be true, but why would he have ILM'ers sign NDA's if he wasn't going to do it? And this would be the first sighn of his back peddling for the last couple of years saying that there are only 6 films.
...as long as he is alive, he will be directing them if he decides to make them. These re his babies. The only reason he had someone else direct Empire and Jedi is because he was too busy running the newly formed Lucasfilm empire. Now he has a bunch of people helping him and he can devote the time to directing, as you can see from this trilogy. Again, it may not be true, but why would he have ILM'ers sign NDA's if he wasn't going to do it? And this would be the first sighn of his back peddling for the last couple of years saying that there are only 6 films.
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For those who didn't read it the last time, here's the real story behind the elusive episodes "7,8&9". There never were 9 episodes. Anything Lucas would come up with for three more films would either be a new creation or a film version of something from the Expanded Universe. In the beginning, he envisioned anywhere from 9 to 12 episodes, but has stated on many occasions that the possibility of three episodes after ROTJ vanished when his concepts were included in the original trilogy. A possible six film saga became the original trilogy. So, anything Lucas originally envisioned for the Star Wars saga has already been filmed. There are no scripts or hidden storylines for any films.
That having been said, I wouldn't put it past Lucas to take a breather and possibly work out a new story. I don't think he could ever fully let it go. And I wouldn't be surprised one bit if someone else directed them. Not that he'd have to have someone do it, but it wouldn't surprise me.
With the incredible acceptance and success of the Expanded Universe, it would be very difficult to film any of the novel trilogies or books, or any part of the galactic history from the Thrawn crisis to the Yuuzhan Vong invasion (although I'd love to see the Vong war done!) Fans know the history and you can't just go and change that after having spent two decades making sure every last sentence fit properly within the timeline of the universe. Plus, you'd have to recast the main parts, and that's something fans may or may not accept. Harrison Ford would never agree to play Han Solo again, and I doubt you'd see Fisher or Hamill signing on, either...even though they would now be at about the right age if Lucas were to film the New Jedi Order era.
IF a new series of films were ever to be made, I'd put my money on Lucas going even further back into the history of the saga, perhaps thousands of years, and doing the Hyperspace Wars, the Sith Wars, the Exar Kun uprising...or perhaps even the founding of the Jedi Order. You'd have free reign without disturbing the accepted history, or having to worry about the right actors.
That having been said, I wouldn't put it past Lucas to take a breather and possibly work out a new story. I don't think he could ever fully let it go. And I wouldn't be surprised one bit if someone else directed them. Not that he'd have to have someone do it, but it wouldn't surprise me.
With the incredible acceptance and success of the Expanded Universe, it would be very difficult to film any of the novel trilogies or books, or any part of the galactic history from the Thrawn crisis to the Yuuzhan Vong invasion (although I'd love to see the Vong war done!) Fans know the history and you can't just go and change that after having spent two decades making sure every last sentence fit properly within the timeline of the universe. Plus, you'd have to recast the main parts, and that's something fans may or may not accept. Harrison Ford would never agree to play Han Solo again, and I doubt you'd see Fisher or Hamill signing on, either...even though they would now be at about the right age if Lucas were to film the New Jedi Order era.
IF a new series of films were ever to be made, I'd put my money on Lucas going even further back into the history of the saga, perhaps thousands of years, and doing the Hyperspace Wars, the Sith Wars, the Exar Kun uprising...or perhaps even the founding of the Jedi Order. You'd have free reign without disturbing the accepted history, or having to worry about the right actors.
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Appearantly Lucas did actually mention 9 films way back when. And also it was something that James Earl Jones mentioned in an interview in 1980 after the release of Empire. True he never had 9 scripts, but he never even had 6. He originally wrote Star Wars as one 3 generational movie, then realized that he could never make it in its entirety. I also saw an interview (TV) with Mark Hammil back during the times the redo's came out where Hammil said something like "when signing on for the first film, and George had been telling him that it was a 3 generational storyline, and no one had ever done anything like that before." He broke it up into 9 chapters, and decided to do it a chapter at a time. He started looking around at which one he could do first, and for bedgetary reasons, decided that the 4th one was the cheapest to make. But it is refferenced in the early days that he himself stated somewehere that there were 9 chapters, and James Earl Jones confirmed this in another interview. This is why the 9 chapter saga came out. I believe it was after the release of ROTJ, when his wife left him for a younger man during the filming of ROTJ, that he decided 6 was the end. At that time, he was so upset that he didn't even want to do the prequels. Then Lucas added some scenes in the redos on the OS to make it a final chapter. It was at this time he started saying 6 chapters. He has also hired Zahn and said that his books would be the official 7-9 storyline. According to one fan who met him at U.S.C.
But it was also reported at Aint-it-cool news:
Again, the rumor surfaced from an interview that he did after ANH, and another interview in which James Earl Jones confirms 9 chapters after ESB. I just don't think that Lucas himself thought that technology would be such that he could finish the last set. Or maybe now that he has the first set out of the way he is saying to himself "Yeah, I could do those now."
Appearantly Lucas did actually mention 9 films way back when. And also it was something that James Earl Jones mentioned in an interview in 1980 after the release of Empire. True he never had 9 scripts, but he never even had 6. He originally wrote Star Wars as one 3 generational movie, then realized that he could never make it in its entirety. I also saw an interview (TV) with Mark Hammil back during the times the redo's came out where Hammil said something like "when signing on for the first film, and George had been telling him that it was a 3 generational storyline, and no one had ever done anything like that before." He broke it up into 9 chapters, and decided to do it a chapter at a time. He started looking around at which one he could do first, and for bedgetary reasons, decided that the 4th one was the cheapest to make. But it is refferenced in the early days that he himself stated somewehere that there were 9 chapters, and James Earl Jones confirmed this in another interview. This is why the 9 chapter saga came out. I believe it was after the release of ROTJ, when his wife left him for a younger man during the filming of ROTJ, that he decided 6 was the end. At that time, he was so upset that he didn't even want to do the prequels. Then Lucas added some scenes in the redos on the OS to make it a final chapter. It was at this time he started saying 6 chapters. He has also hired Zahn and said that his books would be the official 7-9 storyline. According to one fan who met him at U.S.C.
But it was also reported at Aint-it-cool news:
Again, the rumor surfaced from an interview that he did after ANH, and another interview in which James Earl Jones confirms 9 chapters after ESB. I just don't think that Lucas himself thought that technology would be such that he could finish the last set. Or maybe now that he has the first set out of the way he is saying to himself "Yeah, I could do those now."
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I even recall a top Executive of FOX back in '97 (I think the guy was the Vice President of Fox at the time) in a round table interview show on Sci-Fi the weekend that the ESB redo came out, during mention of Lucas making the prequels say something like "We had discussed with Lucas about doing the 7-9 movies first, but he wanted to do 1-3." This is also when the guy had said about ROTJ "Well George directed alot of it as Marquand was gone from the set most of the time because he was very sick." I think he had even said that George should have had "George Lucas" as the director on the titles instead of Marquand. I can't remember, but I think Marquand had been diagnosed with caner at the time, or something like that.
Episodes 7 8 and 9?
Lucas' central Character (Anakin Skywalker) dies at the end of Episode 6. Why on Earth would he make further Star Wars films? It is bad film-making technique, and would be in extremely poor taste, with regards to the audience.
We all understand that Lucas is in it only for the money, as his last film clearly showed. Attack of the Clones was completely squandered; any further films about the further exploits of the offspring of Anakin Skywalker would suffer from Godfather III syndrome.
Lucas' central Character (Anakin Skywalker) dies at the end of Episode 6. Why on Earth would he make further Star Wars films? It is bad film-making technique, and would be in extremely poor taste, with regards to the audience.
We all understand that Lucas is in it only for the money, as his last film clearly showed. Attack of the Clones was completely squandered; any further films about the further exploits of the offspring of Anakin Skywalker would suffer from Godfather III syndrome.
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reality kicks in
In a book I read years ago called "Once Upon A Galaxy: A Journal Of The Making Of The Empire Strikes Back", Lucas told author Alan Arnold that he had story treatments for six movies developed. He only added the third trilogy upon seeing the success of Star Wars (episode IV), parenthesis mine.
But he said he stopped there because reality took over.
I guess what he meant by that was you can only go so far before a theme starts repeating itself, but that's just my humble opinion.
In a book I read years ago called "Once Upon A Galaxy: A Journal Of The Making Of The Empire Strikes Back", Lucas told author Alan Arnold that he had story treatments for six movies developed. He only added the third trilogy upon seeing the success of Star Wars (episode IV), parenthesis mine.
But he said he stopped there because reality took over.
I guess what he meant by that was you can only go so far before a theme starts repeating itself, but that's just my humble opinion.
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When I was in 5th or 6th grade I read in "Dynamite" magazine that the films after Star Wars, and those other 2, would deal with the original characters as they got older. It was thought that Lucas would make these last films as the actors themselves (Hammil, Fisher, et al) would be the appropriate age for their characters and could reprise their original roles. I have been awaiting this since I was a kid, just like jet packs, solar energy and smell-e-vision.
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Oddjob0226 said:
Dynamite magazine?!? Oh MAN! Dude, you just gave me a HELL of a childhood flashback lolololololol.
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The Sean Man said:
I had that one with Chewbacca and Sean Cassidy on the cover for YEARS!
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Oddjob0226 said:
Yup, I had that one. I think just about everyone in my class had a subscription to that magazine.
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speaking of fanfiction...
Check out my profile page at www.fanfiction.net/~fastwalker
It ain't Star Wars, but fanfiction is a hobby of mine, the perfect medium for honing my writing style and helping others do the same. Enjoy.
Check out my profile page at www.fanfiction.net/~fastwalker
It ain't Star Wars, but fanfiction is a hobby of mine, the perfect medium for honing my writing style and helping others do the same. Enjoy.
