George Lucas Discusses the Past, Present and Future of Star Wars

NICE!!!!

I wish there was more on how he felt about the fan reaction, i mean it's gotta be more than, "Meh, oh well." But then again maybe that is how he feels.

The most interesting part for me was that there are people that prefer the prequels to the originals. That's just weird. I'm not one of those that hates on the prequels, I really liked them, but to say they were superior to the originals is mind blowing.

Veeeery interesting. I didn't hate the prequels..but I hated them in comparison to the originals, I mean, they have their moments, but really, they are just a load of old bollocks.

I don't have too much respect for old George after them, AND what happened to ROTJ. I love that movie, but when you know what was supposed to happen in the original script, a few teddy bears beating the shit out of heavily armed Storm Troopers seems all the more frustrating and pointless. Originally it was a planet of Wookies. Han Solo and Lando Calrissian died in the storming of Corusant. Lucas thought that it was easier to market action figures to kids of little cute teddy bears and characters that lived..so that went out the window. How can you respect a man thats first priority is how many kids will buy the spin off merchandise? If you notice that Solo is hardly in ROTJ after the Jabba rescue. Thats because Ford thought that the ending was a load of shit and would only appear in as many scenes that his contract obligated him to appear in.

@Rorshach01 - actually the Wookies were supposed to bring down the Empire in ROTJ. But in the video "From Star Wars to Jedi the making of the movies" he stated that he had established the Wookies as quite intelligent race and was always his intentions to have a technologically undeveloped species destroy the empire. Kinda like a a caveman with club beating up the guy with all the latest weapons and technology. Although I do find the Ewoks(and there 2 movies) to be crap.

Hahaha I'm one of those older people who like The Clone Wars!

IMO I like all six no complaints.

Theres something about comfort that warps people into twisted versions of their former self. The movies he originally made he made struggling. He fought to make them and used all the resources he had available. If anyone caught the reviews of the first 3 films (i think it was posted here) you would see that the new ones were made from a point of pride. He didnt struggle to make them, he didnt use the resources around him but instead was treated like a king. And the movies suffered because of that greatly. No one questioned his ideas because they felt the original movies were guided by his ideas alone. In a way thats true but the input from cast and co workers and artists and everyone is what made them great.

Without even arguing about it you can feel that the new movies dont have any impact. The only service they seemed to present was one for marketing. Toys, collectibles, costumes, games, spin-offs.

Honestly I hope they make more starwars movies. It has unbelievable potential. But dont lets hope Lucas realizes hes not capable of creating them and hand them off to someone much like his younger self was. Somone interested in making a valuable story.

@Rorschach01 i agree with u 100% about the ewoks. I could never get over those dumb things. The wookie story sounds so much better than the gay little ewoks.

I did indeed gtrman. Thats another thing I'm not actually sure a lot of people realize, the best damn movie of the 6 wasn't even directed by Lucas. You can tell while watching ROTJ the exact point where the script becomes a complete cluster [frick]. Don't get me wrong, I still love the movie, and the last fight between Luke and Vader is amazing. I just wish they could have paid more attention to the rest of the stuff happening around it.

I think I am the only person on the planet that was never a big Star Wars fan. I liked the first one alright when I saw it in the theater, but it wasn't an earth-moving experience for me. It was one of the first movies I remember going to without my parents. I progressively lost interest in each of the next three that I watched.

I really enjoyed Empire Strikes Back. That was the best of the first three films. Watch you must. Enjoy you will.

@foxfan I know exactly what you'r saying. I came home from watching RoTS and immediately watched ANH. It was a completely different experience than all of the times I had seen it before. To me that is the best part about the PT, how much more depth and meaning it gives the OT.

i like all episodes. but i would prefer mr lucas to take some time telling us what happens after VI. enough with the prequel trilogy (although that trilogy put me into star wars)

Multi: aT the same time, Tolkien wasn't trying to sell out to a specific demographic to make more $. He believed in what he made, to the point where he went back and rewrote whole chapters because the weather in middle earth didn't sync up for that time of the year. George Lucas is a pompous cornhole who had a great idea, no directorial skills, and filled in the gaps w/ "meh." He doesn't like good ideas if they didn't come from him. He might have let that go 25-30 years ago when the studios had real directors making the star wars films, but not now that he doesn't need them. Garunteed he will die with the rights and a clause in his will saying no one can take them. I say again: doucher. But I do get what you're saying and nice find man!

True poni, I agree. Star wars is an amazing universe. I own more than my fair share of videogames, comic books, and reference books. Sh%t, I own those authentic lightsabers with the motion sensors (don't laugh). All I'm saying is that all these great ideas didn't come from Lucas himself, but companies he let use the name. Why can't he do that for the movies if the fans, the ones that remember when there were just 3 star wars movies, are openly turning on him and saying he's turning their childhood memories to crap? These are the fans that gave Lucas all that capital to make everything else.

Yeah, and ROTS was an awesome movie. Then again maybe it was b/c he had steven spielberg help him and 90% of his grand picture was in it. To keep up with the sports cliches, even if he can't hit 'em all out of the park maybe he should try getting his RBI's up:)

I can't tell him what to do with his creation, I can tell him his last 3 movies sucked though.

Guys seriously, watch those youtube reviews. There are parts that i actually cried laughing at. Its really so true the way the guy breaks it down.