Good Luck, GL
There's a very questionable rumor that George Lucas is planning a sequel trilogy to the original Star Wars films. I'm guessing it won't happen, but, of all the things Lucas could do with Star Wars, this would be the best. (Some would say leave it alone, I suppose, but that's too late.)
A lot of people don't think he has it in him, as evidenced by the last 20 years or so of his films. Maybe, but if he's got anything left, this is how to let it out.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:02 AM
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Dangerous- love to see anything Star Wars of course, but on the Second trilogy the genius started out with Jar-Jar and took until halfway through the second movie to really get going and that was after planning for 15+ years. I would worry about Star Wars Episode 7 being "Return to Ishtar" (or maybe "The Ravages of Time")
I think they are still talking about a live-action TV series.
I say they should do it...
...as long as they change the title to "STAR WHORES".
The fun thing would be if the new trilogy at least featured cameos for the original cast, who could convincingly play their older selves.
I've heard that the original cast of Ghostbusters has signed up for a Ghostbusters III. They are all much older, and I think the plan is for one of them to be dead and appear as a ghost (hopefully Dan Ackroyd). of course, this too could be a disaster, but with so much good will going for it, you'ld think they could come up with a good script and performances (unlike Ghostbusters II)
I can't even imagine how they wouldn't suck.
After the original Star Wars, Lucas explained that it was the first movie of the middle trilogy of a trilogy-of-trilogies. He further stated that the only characters in all nine movies would be R2-D2 and C-3PO. But shortly after Return of the Jedi was released, he said he had no plans to do sequels. He vacillated on the possibility of a prequel over the next decade and a half, but was always consistent in his refusal to do sequels.
I suspect that in his original vision, he was not going to kill both Vader and the Emperor in the sixth movie. If there were going to be nine, it would make much more sense to kill one in episode six, and the other in episode nine.
But after I saw Phantom Menace the second time (after the first time I was in a daze and had to see it again, like taking a second look at a dead dog in the gutter) it was clear that nobody who made that movie could ever make a good movie again. Episode Two gave us the spectacle of Amidala telling Anakin that she had been deeply in love with him ever since she saw him as an eight year old. And then Episode Three, aside from the creepy scene at the opera, ruined the entire point of the prequels. How can Darth Vader ever be scary again when we know he's a whiny sobbing kid in a mask?
That's when I posted this on my office door, and haven't looked back since.
DG wrote:
The fun thing would be if the new trilogy at least featured cameos for the original cast, who could convincingly play their older selves.
There were two Luke scenes that were cut from the beginning of Star Wars, because Lucas decided at the last moment that the audience shouldn't meet Luke until the droids meet him. That gave the film better pacing, but left two unused scenes of a young Mark Hammill on Tattoine (and made Luke's reunion with Biggs at the end of the movie confusing).
When Episode 3 was being made, I hoped that Lucas would use some of this footage at the end, nicely linking episodes 3 and 4.
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