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Lucas To Make New Live Action Star Wars Films 371

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from the please-stop-killing-the-franchise dept.
DrNASA writes "George Lucas says that he will make two more live-action films based in the "Star Wars" era. "But they won't have members of the Skywalker family as characters," he said."
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Lucas To Make New Live Action Star Wars Films

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  • Oh, boy! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Black Parrot (19622) on Wednesday May 09 2007, @06:09PM (#19059893)
    I'm already in line to miss them.

  • Dramatic pause (Score:5, Funny)

    by grasshoppa (657393) <skennedy@tp n o - c o . o rg> on Wednesday May 09 2007, @06:11PM (#19059903) Homepage
    Nnnnooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

    Stupid lameness filter is causing issues

  • Excellent idea! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 09 2007, @06:11PM (#19059915)
    Hopefully he will take a cue and make it similar to the "Holiday Special".

    I can't wait to see the dynamics of Jar-Jar's family!

  • I have always said (Score:3, Funny)

    by geekoid (135745) <dadinportland.yahoo@com> on Wednesday May 09 2007, @06:12PM (#19059923) Homepage Journal
    the Star Wars universe would be a great setting for many different kinds of stories..then Timothy Zahn came along and proved me wrong.

    • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Harmonious Botch (921977) *
      You still are correct: it is a great setting. All that Mr.Zahn has proven is that he can't write them.

      • Re:I have always said (Score:5, Interesting)

        by geekoid (135745) <dadinportland.yahoo@com> on Wednesday May 09 2007, @06:29PM (#19060117) Homepage Journal
        How cool would a Film Noir in Mos Eisley be?

        Or a wandering Jedi, a'la Zatoichi?

        The story of recovering the Death Star plans?

        • .....all without George Lucas at the helm.
        • A blind Jedi wandering around, cutting people up?

          It would not be unexpected that a Jedi could defend himself
          without sight, so I dont think it would work. And the sword
          slashing noises would be drowned out in the "woooz woooz"
          noises. And no blood spurting everywhere. Nope.

          Lana Turner and John Garfield in "The PostDroid always rings 2^32-1 times",
          set on Tattoine? That works, sure.

          Humphrey Bogart in "The Corusant Falcon"? Darth-Gutman searching
          for a black bird? Wanted for the death of a furby?
          • I was tlaking about the great story points, not the cutting people up points.
            I know it's a little hard for some people to sit through the 'boring' no blood parts, much less relize there is a story there.

            I also assumed the Jedi wouldn't be wearing a big fucking sign that says "I'm a Jedi, so never mind that I am blind".

            gah. Your lack of vision is disturbing..or something

        • [quote]The story of recovering the Death Star plans?[/quote]

          It's funny you should mention that... :)
          "Star Wars: Secrets of the Rebellion" will deal with that very subject (amongst others)

          Read more at www.xpressentertainment.ca

        • Re:I have always said (Score:4, Interesting)

          by Coryoth (254751) on Wednesday May 09 2007, @09:08PM (#19061705) Homepage Journal
          Zatoichi? Nah, Lucas should go back to ripping off Kurosawa. How about Seven samurai with six ex-jedi and one farmers son? Or perhaps a nice Star Wars version of Yojimbo and Sanjuro?

      • Re:I have always said (Score:5, Insightful)

        by Schmiggy_JK (867785) on Wednesday May 09 2007, @08:20PM (#19061259)
        You are kidding me right? Zahn's first three novels were probably better than most of george's scripts. George just cant do dialog. Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command aka the Thrawn trilogy is some of the best non cannon Star Wars works period.

    • Re:I have always said (Score:5, Insightful)

      by GrodinTierce (571882) on Wednesday May 09 2007, @07:15PM (#19060661) Journal
      I would have to emphatically disagree. I've always thought that the Thrawn trilogy was some of the best Star Wars writing out there, and it would have made a great conclusion to Lucas's original idea of a trilogy of trilogies if it had been done back in the 80s or 90s when it was still possible to use the original actors.

    • Re: (Score:3, Funny)

      by ukemike (956477)
      The Continuing Adventures of Jar Jar Binks
      or
      The Star Wars Holiday Special, Special Edition
      or
      The Holiday Special Strikes Back
      or
      The Young Han Solo Adventures
      or
      Howard the Jedi Duck
      or
      Correllian Graffiti
      or
      Jar Jar Binks and the Temple of Dumb

      Who here agrees that Lucas is just beating a dead bantha?
  • I guess that just leaves Jar Jar and the Ewoks.

  • TV not theaters (Score:5, Informative)

    by Dr. Eggman (932300) on Wednesday May 09 2007, @06:13PM (#19059935)
    He said they will be for TV, similar to the Clone Wars series, and about 1 hour long each. He's already said he resigned from making [theater] films and Indy 4 will be his last involvement.

    • Re:TV not theaters (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Original Replica (908688) on Wednesday May 09 2007, @06:23PM (#19060047) Journal
      Leaving film and going to TV makes me think Lucas doesn't know his own strengths. He definitely has a gift for grand scale epic imagery, but his interpersonal, small close scene kind of stuff sucks. Or to put it another way: his battle scenes are great, the emotional progress of Anakin into Vadar was crap.

    • Re: (Score:3, Funny)

      by zippthorne (748122)
      And how do we know that Lucas hasn't been replaced by a sophisticated animatronic to fulfil the will of the com..mit..ee. The only facts we can be certain of is that

      A) in light of the ET "guns->walkie talkies" incident and the "Greedo is an exceedingly bad shot" controversy and the "Let's include some comic relief that coincidentally is a derogatory racial reference that we obviously didn't intend" fiasco, his actions have been indistinguishable from those of a committee.

      B) His most recent body appears

    • Indy 4 will be his last involvement
      Hopefully the plot involves finding and destroying the Hell Gate whence bad sequels are colonizing our universe.

  • Cool! (Score:5, Funny)

    by creimer (824291) on Wednesday May 09 2007, @06:13PM (#19059941) Homepage
    "The Return Of Jar-Jar" and "The Children of Jar-Jar" will probably kill Star Wars this time around.

  • I checked TFA... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by glittalogik (837604) on Wednesday May 09 2007, @06:14PM (#19059951)
    ...but there was no mention of Lucas laughing maniacally as lightning crashed behind him. It would havce seemed appropriate.

  • Best Headline Ever!! (Score:5, Funny)

    by rlp (11898) on Wednesday May 09 2007, @06:14PM (#19059953)
    On Topic: Best headline ever [wjla.com].
  • He's gone from mere milking the franchise to raping it. There's little doubt now (in my mind at least) that he has no new ideas, can't be bothered to push himself to come up with something new, so he's gonna fuck his legacy in the ass till it's seen as nothing more than some cheap little whore.

    And there's nothing anyone can do to stop it, because it wont matter how bad it sucks (and it WILL suck), it will make mountains of money.
    • I thought the Clone wars animated series was really good.

      • Re:A bold new direction from Lucas (Score:5, Interesting)

        by ArsonSmith (13997) on Wednesday May 09 2007, @06:26PM (#19060087) Journal
        luckily Lucas did little more than sign off on The Clone Wars cartoon of which was really good. I'm not a rabid Lucas molested my inner child type, but I do see that EpI was horrible, EpII was slightly less horrible, EpIII improved upon that to be merely bad. He is improving, and I did really enjoy 2 & 3 despite the warts.
        • The "Clone Wars" shorts gave me back my love of Star Wars. Unfortunately Genndy Tartakovsky is not involved in the upcoming CGI series but from what I understand the people at the helm of that (no, not Lucas, Lucas is just bankrolling it) are similarly SW fans with a major love of animation as a form of cinema.

          If these movies have a prayer of being good, he should pay Lawrence Kasdan silly money to write the screenplay, point him in the direction he wants him to write, and stand back and let him do it. Or m
      • "I thought the Clone wars animated series was really good."

        True, but look at the 3 recent movies Lucas had a lot more involvement with.

  • I feel a disturbance in the force... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 09 2007, @06:17PM (#19059993)
    as if millions of Star Wars fans cried out in horror and fainted.

  • The Mandalorian Armor (Score:3, Interesting)

    by malsdavis (542216) on Wednesday May 09 2007, @06:20PM (#19060013)
    I'm hoping it's an adaptation of "The Mandalorian Armor". I was always told this was be the natural next progression after Return of the Jedi.

  • Help me here... (Score:2, Informative)

    by iknownuttin (1099999)
    FTF: Gathered at Jazz at Lincoln Center for this spectacular annual event were: "Star Wars" director Lucas with his lady-friend Melody Hobson; presidential hopeful John Edwards with his wife Elizabeth; Queen Raina of Jordan,

    and...

    But of course, we were most interested in talking with George Lucas, the affable genius film director who occasionally graces us in New York with an appearance. Lucas is absolutely one of my favorite people, a lovely guy who seems unaffected by his enormous success. Lucas is curr

    • It is a typical celeb piece.

      Not PR. There is a difference.

      If you have never been involved in 'the industry'(be 'the industry' I mean 'The business':) then it makes little sense. Seems like a list of names.

  • Starwars era? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by MikeRT (947531) on Wednesday May 09 2007, @06:20PM (#19060023) Homepage
    You mean like when he produced good movies and chose actors properly?
    • I mean when he picked good actors (which he DID DO with all of the star wars movies, just look at ANYTHING ELSE they have been in) and didn't direct his movies in such a way that all the characters deliver all the lines with the passion and infliction of a soggy cardboard box. Regarding the new "movies" he is making, the only line I can come up with is "DO NOT WANT!!!!!!"

  • Before I tell you what George Lucas said at the all-star Time magazine dinner for the 100 most influential people, let's cut to the chase: Cate Blanchett arrived and looked gorgeous. She looked completely unlike the picture that ran everywhere Tuesday that depicted her as an anorexic skeleton.

    To paraphrase The Princess Bride, I don't think 'gorgeous' and 'anorexic' mean what you think they mean.

    -shudder- That is one seriously disturbing picture.

  • Just one word: (Score:5, Funny)

    by mobby_6kl (668092) on Wednesday May 09 2007, @06:28PM (#19060103)
    Do not want.

    Well, it was supposed to be one word.
  • Next two Star Wars films:

    Valentine's Day Special
    St. Patrick's Day Special
    Easter Special
    Memorial Day Special
    Independence Day Special
    Labor Day Special
    Halloween Special
    Thanksgiving Special

  • The two extra films will also be made for TV and probably be an hour long each.
    ...and then you lost me.

  • Penny Arcade (Score:5, Funny)

    by Gamefreak99 (722148) on Wednesday May 09 2007, @06:34PM (#19060175)
    http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20040922l. jpg [penny-arcade.com]
  • I have always thought that Pat Mastroianni [sprawlmagazine.com] would make a good Han Solo (since Harrison Ford is getting a little on the old side). A few rollicking Solo and Chewbacca adventures (and I mean adventures, not soap operas) geared more for the grown up crowd might just hit the spot. George just needs to get a competent author to put together the right script and he could conceivably get the Star Wars train wreck back on the tracks.
  • George Lucas: You don't know how hard I found it, signing the order to make TV movies.
    Fans: We're surprised that you had the courage to take the responsibility yourself.
    George Lucas: My fandom, before you're penniless, you will join me in television mediocrity that will make this universal desecration (and my wallet) complete. No Star Wars fan will dare oppose my Canon now.
    Fans: The more you tighten your grip, George, the more fan boys will slip through your fingers.
  • That's the worst fucking idea I've heard since I was a padawan!

  • Oh dear... (Score:2, Insightful)

    by hkmarks (1080097)
    George. Sweetie. You've worked hard, and you've earned a rest. It's alright. You can take a break. Let someone else write the script. We know you don't like actors, and that's alright too. Give some director the job of dealing with them.

    We won't think any less of you.

  • Skywalkers irrelevent (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Repton (60818) on Wednesday May 09 2007, @06:55PM (#19060427) Homepage
    Everyone knows that R2D2 is the true hero of Star Wars..

  • Hopeful! (Score:4, Funny)

    by josteos (455905) on Wednesday May 09 2007, @07:04PM (#19060541)
    Wouldn't this make it better?

    "George Lucas says that he will make two more live-action films based in the "Star Wars" era. "But they won't have members of the Lucas family as writers, directors, or producers," he said."

  • How about the story of the contractors ... (Score:5, Funny)

    by soupinpa (1074180) on Wednesday May 09 2007, @07:07PM (#19060567)
    who worked on the death star. Tell us the story of how those contracts came in, and follow these contractors through to the destruction of the second death star. Perhaps Randall will stop ranting about how they were innocent bystanders in this conflict.

  • Asbestos underwear on (Score:4, Insightful)

    by ObiWanStevobi (1030352) on Wednesday May 09 2007, @07:07PM (#19060571) Journal

    A big middle finger in the air to all those Lucas haters out there.

    There are alot of stories in the Star Wars universe that can be done and done well. The KOTOR games created some really good stories. There are lots of possibilities with the old republic, Mandalorian wars, Sith Lore, etc. that would make great stories.

    Lucas wrote and directed some of the best movies ever made. Only in comparison to the Original trilogy can the new Star Wars movies be considered somehow weak. Lucas still makes great movies.

    For those out there griping and complaining, all I can say is save your money and go watch Delta Farce 2, or whatever else it is you are going to be watching that is so darn great.

    • Sure of course there is potential, but Lucas wont do it. Hes proven his time has come and gone and needs to turn over control to a new generation.

    • Re:Asbestos underwear on (Score:5, Interesting)

      by GaryPatterson (852699) on Wednesday May 09 2007, @09:31PM (#19061881)
      Visually, all of the Star Wars movies are great. The writing in episodes 4, 5 and 6 was pretty good too. While the visuals have only gone from strength to strength and the overal plot of the rise of Palpatine is impressive, the writing has plummeted in quality.

      Anyone who expects Natalie Portman to deliver the line "Hold me like you did on Naboo" without the entire audience laughing at the absurdity of it, or gives Ewan Macgregor the immortal line "He killed the younglings!" has to face facts: writing is not their forte. Lucas should let better authors write and stick to directing.

      I've seen them all in the cinemas, played some games, enjoy the backstory and own the DVDs, but I try to skip the dialogue as much as possible in the new films. It's Lucas' Achilles Heel.
  • Great non-Skywalker family films like this one. [wikipedia.org] Or maybe this masterpiece [wikipedia.org].

    OMG Lucas, you just like to jab that knife in and keep on twisting, don't you? What do we have to look forward to now, a story about the Gungans? I might actually see that... if they use the Death Star to blow Naboo up in the first five minutes of the film. Or better yet, how about a story about Wookies? We could expand upon the great festive celebration that is Life Day [wikipedia.org]! Oh how I would love to see Itchy, Mala, and Lumpy (yes, L
  • He needs to make *three* more, to complete the nine episodes he originally promised.

    "Well, is this the end of the flick?! Hey! Is it a "wrap"?"

    "Not quite, Luke. I have six more "Star Wars" chapters to go. We should get to them all by... oh, 1998."

    "1998, Mr. Lucas?"

    "Yes... yes, I think so..."

    Fx: *FOOSH* (lightsaber whacking Lucas' head off)

    "Jedi knights don't wait 15 years for a sequel."


    Optimist.

  • Lucas, by the way, says he is readying "Clone Wars," an animated series for TV that's derived from "Star Wars." Many "Star Wars" characters appear in "Clone Wars," but voiced by other actors.
    Okay, so, Spiderman 3 is out, but he's "readying" Clone Wars? Is there a new version of the toon coming out, or what?

  • Let me be the first to suggest (Score:3, Funny)

    by muellerr1 (868578) on Wednesday May 09 2007, @08:39PM (#19061449) Homepage
    'A Gungan Christmas'

  • Jedi battles on speed (Score:3, Interesting)

    by LoudMusic (199347) on Wednesday May 09 2007, @09:01PM (#19061653)
    I'd like to see masses of Jedi and Sith battling over territory and the minds of the weak. It could actually be good. Jedi and Sith from all the familiar species and a bunch of new ones.

    http://starwars.carrotnetwork.com/jediepisode2.jpg [carrotnetwork.com]

    You know you want it too.

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