Sunday, January 27, 2013
Video: George Lucas Talks Future of 'Star Wars' and Lucasfilm
Rolling Stone: After Disney acquired Lucasfilm last October, Star Wars creator and Lucasfilm founder George Lucas and president Kathleen Kennedy sat down for a series of interviews on the future of the sci-fi universe and franchise. The fifth and final part surfaced today, but the pair let slip revealing news as early as the first segment in October. Lucas has already worked out treatments for Episodes Seven, Eight and Nine, with plans for more.
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I'm personally excited to see where Lucas takes the next Star Wars Trilogy. Sure it's practically guaranteed to be inferior to the original series, and Disney's influence probably won't help anything either, but there's still so many avenues left to explore in the Star Wars universe. I guess I just want to see Lucas do as much as he can with it before he leaves us, even if he's getting a little our of touch (as evinced by the last Indian Jones movie). I also have another opportunity to play a jedi now, so that's pretty cool
A lot of my friends are big Star Wars fans and because of Disney's purchase of Lucasfilms, they were, to say the least, very dismayed. I understood this, at least I thought I did (mind you I've never seen a whole movie...oh don't looked so shocked :p): how could childish animated Disney keep up the futuristic sci-fi? But apparently Lucas is still staying on the project a bit, and that, I think, should give all Star Wars fans a chance to breathe.
Hearing that disney bought lucasfilms my first reaction was "oh god leia is now a disney princess", Disney is a very capable company and while most people only associate disney with cute and fun animated movies they have simply bought lucasfilms. DIsney is the company that distributed The Avengers and produced by Marvel. Lucasfilms will still be the company making the new star wars films (which the story lines have been started by george lucas. Now Lucasfilms has the ridiculous bank account of disney backing them up (not that lucasfilms hasnt had the money before). My main disappointment for the upcoming new films is that George is infact not directing star wars but JJ Abrams is.
Now that My initial shock over Disney's purchase of Star Wars has subsided I actually a little excited. Mind you, I've never been a fan of movie series. One of two is fine. And a good trilogy is never a bad thing, but past that it starts to get a little annoying. The newness factor is diminished and films start resorting to gimmicks. Because of this tendency, I actually excited that George lucas is not directing the newest film. J.J. Abrams brought such a fresh take to Star treck that I have complete confidence that he will achieve the same with Star wars.
I am withholding all judgement until the films are released, with any luck they will be vastly better than Episodes 1,2, and 3. I think it's great that Lucas is taking a back seat, it's the only true way for this project to be successful, and with Abrams at the helm it should interested. Or will at least have big explosions and some lens flare.
Lucas' decision to let Disney take Lucasfilms was very smart. Disney'll definitely keep the corporation, story, and the Star Wars universe alive. My only concern with that is I'm hoping that 30, 40, maybe 50 years from now, Star Wars films and products will stay true to how they were produced when Lucasfilms stood on its own.
Disney is not a stupid company. They realize how valuable the Star Wars franchise is (I mean, they bought it) and they will be the first to recognize that they should not alter it. Of course Lucasfilms will maintain artistic control, and George Lucas will not step down from his spotlight any time soon. You only have to look at the catastrophe of New Coke to learn that you should never mess with your audiences childhood memories. #hanshotfirst
First of all, how has Jake not commented on this yet? He must be locked in the Death Star's trash compactor or have his feet frozen to the ceiling of Wampa Ice Monster cave. Either way, I'm sure if he were free he would have to agree with me that, while George Lucas has had a few good ideas in his career, he has never been much of a writer. When Kathleen mentioned working over ideas for the new movies with a "couple of writers" I saw New Hope for the series. While I have always admired the creative vision of the man behind the Empire, I have often wondered how a grown man could produce and then ask grown actors to reproduce some of what I'm sure Jake would agree is some of the worst dialogue in film history. The Star Wars movies draw from the sense of wonder and wild imagination that every 5 year old possesses, and speaks to the 5 year old still squirreled away in all of us, but I've never understood why the dialogue and dramatic action couldn't engage an adult sensibility as well. Science fiction doesn't have to be childish and empty, and with this Return to the storyboard, let us all pray to our midichlorians for less Ewok, more Rock in the installments to come.
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