Aw geez, not this @#$@ again (again)
Oct. 21st, 2009 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lazypadawanSpread on the internet today was a rumor that they're going to make a third SW trilogy (all new) in glorious 3D.
Guyz, PLEASE.
Yours truly has been on the SW fandom bus for 32 years. Unlike the troglodyte knuckleheads who were all born 1980 something and whose knowledge about SW has been based on distorted rumors, assumptions, tropes, and urban legends, I actually have read just about every major interview and article about the topic. Lucas mentioned nine movies only once or twice, waaay back when. As time marched on, he never mentioned anything about a story post-ROTJ. Why? He had never really planned on it. If he ever talked about future Star Wars films, he only mentioned doing movies that took place prior to ANH. Why do you think they let those Timothy Zahn books and that "Dark Empire" comics series take place post-ROTJ? Because there have never been plans to make movies in that time period, while the prequel era was off-limits until there were actual films.
Use common sense here. Right now, Lucas is involved with Clone Wars and with getting the live action show off of the ground (which is about two or three years away), as well as producing the upcoming "Red Tails." He doesn't have time to bug with a whole new trilogy and even if he woke up tomorrow with an idea, it would be several years before anything would hit the screen. Lucas didn't start writing TPM until 1994 or 1995, even though he knew by about 1992 or 1993 that he was finally able to make the movies. Then came about two or three years of pre-production work, principal photography, and then about two years of post-production work. All told, 5-7 years, at least. And what would they be about anyway? The six part series is about Anakin's rise, fall, and redemption. Any new movies without Anakin/Vader would really be their own cycle, not true sequels to ROTJ.
Besides, I'm not really sure why the same people who hated every second of the prequels and spend every breathing moment of their lives complaining about them want to see more movies. What makes them think things will be different this time? No amount of wishful thinking is going to get whoever's flavor of the moment to magically sweep in and turn SW into whatever some jerk fanboy thinks it ought to be.
Now we all know that Lucas eventually would like to convert all 6 SW films into a 3D format but that little project is years away, if it ever happens. We don't know if in a year or two, 3D turns out to be yet another incarnation of a 1950s cinematic fad that keeps making comebacks.
People, we're more likely to see a Beatles reunion tour with all of the original members than to see an Episode VII show up in theaters. Just get it through your heads.
Guyz, PLEASE.
Yours truly has been on the SW fandom bus for 32 years. Unlike the troglodyte knuckleheads who were all born 1980 something and whose knowledge about SW has been based on distorted rumors, assumptions, tropes, and urban legends, I actually have read just about every major interview and article about the topic. Lucas mentioned nine movies only once or twice, waaay back when. As time marched on, he never mentioned anything about a story post-ROTJ. Why? He had never really planned on it. If he ever talked about future Star Wars films, he only mentioned doing movies that took place prior to ANH. Why do you think they let those Timothy Zahn books and that "Dark Empire" comics series take place post-ROTJ? Because there have never been plans to make movies in that time period, while the prequel era was off-limits until there were actual films.
Use common sense here. Right now, Lucas is involved with Clone Wars and with getting the live action show off of the ground (which is about two or three years away), as well as producing the upcoming "Red Tails." He doesn't have time to bug with a whole new trilogy and even if he woke up tomorrow with an idea, it would be several years before anything would hit the screen. Lucas didn't start writing TPM until 1994 or 1995, even though he knew by about 1992 or 1993 that he was finally able to make the movies. Then came about two or three years of pre-production work, principal photography, and then about two years of post-production work. All told, 5-7 years, at least. And what would they be about anyway? The six part series is about Anakin's rise, fall, and redemption. Any new movies without Anakin/Vader would really be their own cycle, not true sequels to ROTJ.
Besides, I'm not really sure why the same people who hated every second of the prequels and spend every breathing moment of their lives complaining about them want to see more movies. What makes them think things will be different this time? No amount of wishful thinking is going to get whoever's flavor of the moment to magically sweep in and turn SW into whatever some jerk fanboy thinks it ought to be.
Now we all know that Lucas eventually would like to convert all 6 SW films into a 3D format but that little project is years away, if it ever happens. We don't know if in a year or two, 3D turns out to be yet another incarnation of a 1950s cinematic fad that keeps making comebacks.
People, we're more likely to see a Beatles reunion tour with all of the original members than to see an Episode VII show up in theaters. Just get it through your heads.
