Probably BS but if there is any truth to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IXCK1EyP4s
One rumor I heard that may be related is no network wants to pay Lucas for his live action star wars TV series. It’s way too expensive for todays network budgets. So maybe this has mutated into a set of movies. Again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zNjQecyjE8
I actually hope that star wars stops coming out and only after his death, we might see another movie.
This rumor pops up trimonthly and ends up being false, so I don’t see why it would be true this time around, especially given completely implausible info from the source…
These new film will have nothing to do with the live action television series currently in development. That show already has over 50 scripts ready to go and plenty of pre-production time and money has been spent on artwork and storyboards. Once that show goes into production, Lucasfilm hopes to be able to produce at least 100 episodes since that is the threshold for syndication in the United States
Lucas may make questionable creative decisions, but he is a keen businessperson who is smart enough to know the economic benefits of television’s seasonal framework of 13-26 episodes.
Alex, I’m not sure what you’re trying to say there, but if you’re implying the info about the TV series is inaccurate, I assure you it is not. The TV series is way too far into pre-production to be turned into anything else now. Could be the idea for a new trilogy would come up as a way of making Star Wars more desirable as a TV show.
The announcement that he’s releasing all six in 3D over the course of the next half decade or so would seem to indicate that new movies are not going to happen, though.
Well, how much more money could he make if movies were released ala the EU books? Something a little more focused and one-off then the Clone Wars and new tv series.
I think Alex is saying that having 50 scripts in the can sounds like a waste. And is it creatively possible?(insert SW joke here).
I dunno, I don’t see how it could be that false.
From what it sounds like, the 3 new movies would take place far in the future, probably with the Jedi order restored. Maybe an older Luke will show up as a Cameo, but probably not.
I wish they could have made the Thrawn trilogy into movies…
Sounds like the 1997 lead-in re-release of the OT in front of Episode 1.
I thought the plan was always for three trilogies?
Yes. You see if something succeeds or not in the first before taking the risk of writing all the other seasons (not just mapping out series arcs).
Another trilogy is not implausible, but I doubt Lucas would write or direct.
The tv series does NOT exist. You don’t sit around for years in pre-production. You don’t write 50 scripts for a show in advance. Total garbage.
It sounds exactly like the kind of ass-backwards way of making TV Lucas would choose.
Remember how we kept on hearing about how there were 3 trilogies, and Lucas was working on a prequel series for years and years and years and no one thought it’d be true, cause no one cares about prequels, etc. Oh, right. It happened.
As for the series… hard to say what’s really happening. Budgets would be so massively huge that it wouldn’t surprise me that it was axed, one way or another… and Lucas seems to crotchety when it comes to supplementary spending (the whole “it’s too expensive to do the original trilogy for Blu-Ray” excuse being the most recent example of his blatant cheapness).
— Alan
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I distinctly recall reading this in 1977.
When he re-released the original trilogy as a Special Edition with CGI, some of the CGI stuck out like a sore thumb – especially the crappy Jabba (which was redone for the DVD release) and the two droids on the landspeeder.
Note that the two pairs of Stormtroopers are just mirrored of each other.
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I remember a MAD magazine spoof that outlined the entire future series that George was planning. In one film Darth Vader and CP30 found out they were related (that kinda came true in the prequels :) )
and in another Luke found out that Darth wasn’t his father, he was conceived by immaculate conception by the Force itself (that did come true in the sequels though it was Darth who turned out to be fathered by the Force - albeit through the symbotic midichlorian lifeforms who knocked Shmi up).
I seem to recall several years ago that starwars.com had a nav bar in the top right that included numbers for all nine movies, with the final three being non-clickable. I suppose this must have been about the time The Phantom Menace came out.
Wikito the rescue!
I completely remember it suppose to be a 9 film arc. I also remember Lucas in 1999 saying the prequel was going to be the end of the movies, and the post RotJ would be left to ‘other media’.
In 1983 the nine-film saga was reported by a Time article[7] and The Times review of Return of the Jedi,[8] in The Washington Post[9] and the “9-film epic saga” plan continued to be repeated into the late 20th century and early 2000s.[10][11][12] The authors of the 1983 Time article briefly described the prequel trilogy, which they said would portray the “political intrigue and Machiavellian plotting that led to the downfall of the once noble Republic”. Of the sequel trilogy, they wrote, “Their main theme will be the necessity for moral choices and the wisdom needed to distinguish right from wrong. There was never any doubt in the films already made; in those the lines were sharply drawn, comic-book-style. Luke Skywalker, who will then be the age Obi-Wan Kenobi is now, some place in his 60s, will reappear, and so will his friends, assuming that the creator decides to carry the epic further.”
Editer
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When I first heard of the 9-film arc, I very much wanted it to happen.
Then the prequels happened. And Clone Wars happened.
Now if I ever get a time machine, I’m going to go back in time and kill Hitler as a baby, stop 9/11, and then go visit George Lucas as he’s scripting Return of Jedi, show him my ability to erase him from existence, and get him to (1) stick with the Wookie idea instead of Ewoks, and (2) retire from movie making after the third Indiana Jones film.
Holy shit, it is, to my surprise. They have “a movie-of-the-week and 50 hours written.”
Everything on this Wiki page makes me think the show is not likely to happen, and Lucas has a fundamental misunderstanding of the television medium. Rather than meaningful character development, he seems keen on having a bunch of explosions and unnecessary CGI.
Patton Oswald will kill George Lucas first.
I think he should stop before the original greatness of SW just disappears all together, it’s still reeling after episode1-3.
