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[Omega_Trust]

Excerpt from io9.com

"Because you dissed the Star Wars prequels, George Lucas has sworn he won't ever make another movie about that faraway galaxy. He says, "Why would I make any more, when everybody yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?"
In an interview with the New York Times, he also seemed stung by criticism that he changed the original Star Wars trilogy too much for the various re-releases:"

Click below for full article, link to Lucas' full interview with The New York Times is contained in the article.

http://io9.com/58772...star-wars-movie

Hopefully he would still be willing to license out the property to someone with more capability in the writing and directing department, of course with express consultation from Lucas himself.

Edited by Omega_Trust, 18 January 2012 - 11:24 PM.

[Rhuen]

I doubt it, that was his dream world. His creatures, vehicles, ect...although he did liscense out the clone wars for a cartoon.

Honestly I was hoping someday we'd see a "New Republic" you know (POSt: Star wars movies) as opposed to this dragged out cartoon that sits between two prequals.

[Omega_Trust]

Well, George isn't going to live forever, and I suspect one of his daughters (she actually has written a few episodes of the CGI Clone Wars series) will be left with the supreme decisions on what is done with the license.

I didn't realise there was a character limit on the Topic Title, but it was mean to read Movies.

The Live Action TV show is still in the works and Rick McCallum dropped the would be name of it.

As for the topic at hand, I feel it's worth mentioning this website: http://savestarwars.com/

When you consider the quotation from George Lucase that io9.com cited:

" I'm saying: 'Fine. But my movie, with my name on it, that says I did it, needs to be the way I want it."

Then consider that in 1988, George Lucas stood before Congress attempting to appeal the "colorisation" of classic black and white films. Here's an excerpt, these are George's own words.


I am not here today as a writer-director, or as a producer, or as the chairman of a corporation. I've come as a citizen of what I believe to be a great society that is in need of a moral anchor to help define and protect its intellectual and cultural heritage. It is not being protected.
The destruction of our film heritage, which is the focus of concern today, is only the tip of the iceberg. American law does not protect our painters, sculptors, recording artists, authors, or filmmakers from having their lifework distorted, and their reputation ruined. If something is not done now to clearly state the moral rights of artists, current and future technologies will alter, mutilate, and destroy for future generations the subtle human truths and highest human feeling that talented individuals within our society have created.
A copyright is held in trust by its owner until it ultimately reverts to public domain. American works of art belong to the American public; they are part of our cultural history.
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians, and if the laws of the United States continue to condone this behavior, history will surely classify us as a barbaric society. The preservation of our cultural heritage may not seem to be as politically sensitive an issue as "when life begins" or "when it should be appropriately terminated," but it is important because it goes to the heart of what sets mankind apart. Creative expression is at the core of our humanness. Art is a distinctly human endeavor. We must have respect for it if we are to have any respect for the human race."

http://savestarwars....ialedition.html

I just thought that was interesting, and wish the author of the New York Times article had known enough to mention this.

Edited by Omega_Trust, 19 January 2012 - 12:34 AM.

[Rhuen]

In 1000 years Godzilla will be worshipped as a god whose prophets mistook its visions for their imaginations.

History can be weird, although sometimes the artist wants this. HP Lovecraft, long before his works became public domain, actually stated in his will that anyone was allowed to use his creations and concepts in their own works (and everyone has).

[Archangel]

Lucas has turned into the Grinch. He's become more interested in his narrow vision than the greater scheme of things.
Nobody is suggesting he doesn't have the right to make his movies the way he wants. What's pissing people off is his absolute refusal to release the theatrical versions of the original Star Wars trilogy in updated, anamorphic, digital form. It's especially galling in the light of his insistence of preserving classic films as they were.
It's as much of an affront to colorize Casablanca as it is to insert Hayden Christensen at the end of Return of the Jedi.
It would be so easy for him to recreate the originals and preserve them as if he were an archivist, rather than an egocentric schmuck who insists on a selfish, "you can't have it, it's MINE!" approach. He keeps forgetting that it's the fans who grew up on the classic trilogy that made Star Wars such an enduring phenomenon and this generation's cultural epic mythos.

If Ridley Scott can do it with Blade Runner, why can't he?

[TymRavenblade]

You aren't going to see any more Star Wars movies. You aren't ever going to see the live action TV show he's been talking about for years. Despite his allowing books and games and yada yada yada. He considers nothing canon to the Star Wars universe aside from the movies he's made. Not even the Timothy Zahn books that everyone thinks would have been the next trilogy. Star Wars begins and ends with the tale of Anakin Skywalker. And though I'm a fan of the original trilogy... it's not REALLY that epic story-wise. The best stories and mythologies of Star Wars came from people other than Lucas. Like Pier said, he's become the Grinch.

Any story relating to the Star Wars universe has to be approved by old bullfrog neck. You have to be invited to write a Star Wars story by Lucas. He got lax by his standards and someone wrote a wookie Jedi into the books and he went apeshit. He holds all the cards. I wouldn't be surprised if he does the "I'm going to take my toys and go home" and you see the entire Expanded Universe dry up completely, because I don't see him handing creative control of it to someone else.

[Shadout]

To be perfectly honest - I could quite happily go through the rest of my days without there being another Star Wars movie or tv show being made. That's not to say I'm not a huge fan of the originals, and even Revenge of the Sith was bloody good - but the first two of the prequels were that damn awful that the sheen was taken away; I simply can't get excited at the thought of further attempts.

[Rhuen]

On one hand its good to know that in the movies, the idea that the force is/was governed by three semi-abstracts shape shifting gods in an invisi-sphere at some odd point in the Galaxy and tried to turn Anakin into a god and revealed he would become Darth Vader, only to erase everyone's memories making the entire two parter utterly pointless isn't cannon.

However it also makes the Clone Wars cartoon pretty pointless to continue as it is taking place between two prequals. If they want to say, "none cannon" which may be why the tv keeps saying,"the clone wars universe" rather than the "Star Wars" universe, and this drags out too long they might as well go full tangent and make Anakin not even become Darth Vader (seeing as they keep grinding him being a hero rather than the slow transition to the dark side you'd expect). Also this show could use a sex scene, I know its "kids' programming" but after hundreds of clones and aliens being shot, stabbed, decapitated, eaten, ect...I could use a nice love making scene.