Damn you George Lucas!

[Theo R Cwithin]

Either way it's starting to look like he's never going to make parts 7-9.

I'm nearly positive that he announced at the end of ep 3 that he would never make 7-9.

Yeah, I'm pretty certain he said eps 7-9 won't happen (actually, iirc, were never intended to happen??). Which is a shame. I'd like to see him do the honorable thing and hand over 7-9 (and maybe 1-3 for a redo!) to someone else to do a good job on them.

Michael Bay, perhaps.

:ducks:

 

[Mark CMG]

I wonder how much tougher it is to make the older films 3D?

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Yeah, I'm pretty certain he said eps 7-9 won't happen (actually, iirc, were never intended to happen??). Which is a shame. I'd like to see him do the honorable thing and hand over 7-9 (and maybe 1-3 for a redo!) to someone else to do a good job on them.

Michael Bay, perhaps.

:ducks:

He originally announced 12 episodes, but reduced it to 7 shortly after Star Wars came out. Something most people forget, or never knew. And, of course, the Luke Skywalker character was supposed to be female. (Just look at the original McQuarrie artwork for the real first movie.)

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

He originally announced 12 episodes, but reduced it to 7 shortly after Star Wars came out. Something most people forget, or never knew. And, of course, the Luke Skywalker character was supposed to be female. (Just look at the original McQuarrie artwork for the real first movie.)

12? I had never heard that. I remember a long time ago reading in one of my Star Wars Fan Club newletters about how he planned for three trilogies: the rise of the empire, the rebellion, and the decline of the empire.

I now accept that there will never be a final three movies, and I'm fine with that for two reasons: 1) I don't trust Lucas to produce quality material anymore and 2) I have let some of the novels written of the times following Return of the Jedi provide the closing chapters of the tale.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Here's how we will get films 7-9: Uwe Boll will direct #7, Bloody Reign of th Sith; Michael Bay follows with #8, Transformation of the Cyber-Jedi; M. Night Shaymalan closes with #9, The Force Happens.

All of the other stuff will wind up on Oprah's OWN network (when she outbids G4) as a series in which the direcorial work will be handled by music video directors.

Finally, Jar-Jar Binks will get a spinoff advice show on OWN.

And there will be much sadness.

 

[El Mahdi]

Here's how we will get films 7-9: Uwe Boll will direct #7, Bloody Reign of th Sith; Michael Bay follows with #8, Transformation of the Cyber-Jedi; M. Night Shaymalan closes with #9, The Force Happens.

All of the other stuff will wind up on Oprah's OWN network (when she outbids G4) as a series in which the direcorial work will be handled by music video directors.

Finally, Jar-Jar Binks will get a spinoff advice show on OWN.

And there will be much sadness.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but the possibility of the above leaves me with no other choice...I hope the Mayans were right about 2012!

 

[Orius]

He originally announced 12 episodes, but reduced it to 7 shortly after Star Wars came out. Something most people forget, or never knew. And, of course, the Luke Skywalker character was supposed to be female. (Just look at the original McQuarrie artwork for the real first movie.)

To be fair, Lucas seems to have had a lot of big grandiose ideas about the franchise when he first worked on it, and he probably changed his plans around as he realized the realities of actually making movies in the first place. He is a revisionist about the history of his movies, as he generally tries to cultivate the impression that the story as it exists now was what he always had in mind, though that is definitely contradicted by early drafts of the scripts from the original movies. I don't think all of it is a deliberate lie though, since he probably doesn't remember everything that was going through his head 35 years ago, while some of the more obsessive fans know the early scripts inside out.

 

[jonesy]

...while some of the more obsessive fans know the early scripts inside out.

Which might be another reason for why he denies them.

Lucas strikes me as the movies version of Peter Molyneux. A man of great vision who has absolutely no idea how to translate it to his chosen medium.

 

[JediSoth]

At the rate of one a year, by the time Jedi comes out, Phantom Menace will look like crap, so he'll go back and re-re-re-re-master all of them all over again. It's a vicious cycle.

His constant tinkering is just going to make him into more of a joke than many people already take him for. The people who think nothing he does is wrong will gradually shrink until the whole Star Wars franchise goes the way of Star Trek when Enterprise was cancelled.

Fortunately, he can't take away what's already been released into the marketplace, so we'll always have those.

 

[jonesy]

Fortunately, he can't take away what's already been released into the marketplace, so we'll always have those.

Yeah, well, remember this?

"There will only be one. And it won't be what I would call the "rough cut," it'll be the "final cut." The other one will be some sort of interesting artifact that people will look at and say, "There was an earlier draft of this." The same thing happens with plays and earlier drafts of books. In essence, films never get finished, they get abandoned. At some point, you're dragged off the picture kicking and screaming while somebody says, "Okay, it's done." That isn't really the way it should work. Occasionally, [you can] go back and get your cut of the video out there, which I did on both American Graffiti and THX 1138; that's the place where it will live forever. So what ends up being important in my mind is what the DVD version is going to look like, because that's what everybody is going to remember. The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won't last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version (the Special Edition)."
-American Cinematographer, February 1997.