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Last Star Wars 'not for children' film-maker George Lucas has said.
BBC News ^ | 03/11/2005 | staff writer

Posted on 03/11/2005 2:20:38 PM PST by bedolido

The sixth and final Star Wars movie may not be suitable for young children, film-maker George Lucas has said. He told US TV show 60 Minutes that Revenge of the Sith would be the darkest and most violent of the series.

"I don't think I would take a five or six-year-old to this," he told the CBS programme, to be aired on Sunday.

Lucas predicted the film would get a US rating advising parents some scenes may be unsuitable for under-13s. It opens in the UK and US on 19 May.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: george; jarjar; lucas; starwars
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To: bedolido
I wonder if this will be the last Star Wars?

Lucas envisioned 9 episodes and 7, 8 and 9 were supposed to be the further adventures of Luke Skywalker and Co.

Hard to imagine that someone wouldn't pick it up and produce/direct them if Lucas didn't want to.

61 posted on 03/11/2005 3:48:40 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (If you decide to kick the tiger in the ass...you'd better be prepared to deal with the teeth.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

There's talk that Kevin Smith of Clerks fame will be involved in doing some sort of post ROTJ TV SW show.


62 posted on 03/11/2005 3:50:29 PM PST by marajade
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Pretty sure Lucas is done. Maybe tv shows but the movies are over. he admitted he had no idea what to do after Return of the Jedi last I heard.


63 posted on 03/11/2005 3:51:04 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares
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To: Names Ash Housewares
...he admitted he had no idea what to do after Return of the Jedi.

Then, that would put him at the bottom of the old imagination ladder. It shouldn't take too much effort to come up with something that would get kids and Star Wars geeks like me into a theatre.

64 posted on 03/11/2005 3:53:33 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (If you decide to kick the tiger in the ass...you'd better be prepared to deal with the teeth.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

well the end of Jedi was pretty happy. Empire defeated, good days ahead. I dont know if there is much story there.
Han and Leia kids learn the force from luke? I dunno.
I know there was a comic book called Dark Empire I think, but it went with the emperor still being alive or something like that. Been too long, not sure.


65 posted on 03/11/2005 3:56:51 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares
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To: bedolido

Heh... I love SW and thought AToC was great, tough TPM was a bit hoaky in parts.

Aaaanyways.... contrast this with how "Million Dollar Baby" was promoted.

Good for Lucas, I was hoping RotS was going to be 'darker'. I mean at the end of it everything pretty much has to be set up for ANH which is a pretty 'dark' time for the Republic.

Shows like Battlestar Galatica (new one on SciFi/Sky) are great becuase they aren't all "ping ping" lasers and black and white characters.

In RotS you literally see the HERO of the 1st 2 movies become the villan for the next 4. Such character depth is rare these days and I appretiate it.

Those SW hata's (either the anti-scifi crowd, or their dipole, the "Puritan" trekkers) usually overanalyze things to death, and actually actively hinder their own entertainment" (I HATE wathing movies/tv with these people.... 'man... that would NEVER happen' while we are watching "Independace Day" and such)


66 posted on 03/11/2005 4:12:23 PM PST by FreedomNeocon (.)
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To: marajade
So much for that idea . . . .
67 posted on 03/11/2005 4:13:40 PM PST by colorado tanker (The People Have Spoken)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

Last I heard, Lucas was working with Spielburg on a 4th installment to Indiana Jones movies to release as well.

I read the specifics over at aintitcoolnews.com a while back but the gist is another adventure like the other 3 but Indiana had a young study with him which would do the 'action' while Harrison flushed out the character depth and advanced the story.


68 posted on 03/11/2005 4:14:59 PM PST by FreedomNeocon (.)
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To: colorado tanker

Closer comes out on 3/29 on DVD. If your into Portman buy that one, she plays an exotic dancer.


69 posted on 03/11/2005 4:19:19 PM PST by marajade
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To: FreedomNeocon

harrison ford has gotten too old and loopy. Gawed I loved the guy forever but he has totally lost me. Indiana Jones is a great character. Raiders was by far the best. Temple of doom downright silly in areas but the Indy character carried it. Crusade better but all the Dad this and Dad that got old and Marcus was a doddering fool was sad. It was great in other areas though, the whole Hitler scene was great. I really like the in charge Indy from Raiders the most. My idea would be to get a young actor and start there. The kid from the TV show might work pretty well and start doing Indy movies like James Bond movies. Wont happen though.


70 posted on 03/11/2005 4:20:58 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares
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To: bedolido

A waste of money, time, and effort

and that's watching it on HBOShowStarzMax


71 posted on 03/11/2005 5:18:42 PM PST by sully777 (It's like my momma always said, "Two wrongs don't make a right but two Wrights make an airplane.")
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To: marajade
Rumor is he plays a cameo senator role in Ep. III and his skin color is blue.


72 posted on 03/11/2005 5:50:52 PM PST by My2Cents (America is divided along issues of morality, between the haves and the have-nots.)
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To: My2Cents; AmishDude

Very funny.


73 posted on 03/11/2005 5:57:17 PM PST by marajade
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To: My2Cents

Can't claim all the credit. Much of that's been floating around for years.


74 posted on 03/11/2005 6:02:41 PM PST by dangus
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To: marajade
Rumor is he plays a cameo senator role in Ep. III and his skin color is blue.

Art imitates life:


A US Senate hopeful in the state of Montana has a bad case of the blues after years of drinking a home-made silver solution for medical reasons.

Libertarian candidate Stan Jones, 63, first discovered his skin was turning blue last year.

He began taking colloidal silver in 1999 amid fears that disruptions caused by the millennium bug might lead to a shortage of antibiotics.

75 posted on 03/11/2005 6:54:56 PM PST by AmishDude (The Clown Prince-in-a-can of Free Republic!)
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To: AmishDude

That must be where GL got the idea from.


76 posted on 03/11/2005 6:55:47 PM PST by marajade
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To: Jim Noble

I'd like to shoot that thing....right in its voice box.


77 posted on 03/11/2005 6:58:28 PM PST by Dan from Michigan (DEA: "I'm the only one in this room professional enough that I know to carry this Glock 40"...BOOM!)
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To: marajade

I don't think so. But I only know the way Peter Jackson does his LOTR cameos and they're kind of last-minute.


78 posted on 03/11/2005 7:11:23 PM PST by AmishDude (The Clown Prince-in-a-can of Free Republic!)
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To: AmishDude

You think GL's was last minute? What about his kids?


79 posted on 03/11/2005 7:17:46 PM PST by marajade
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To: marajade

I don't know for sure, but I would guess he knows when the crowd scenes are and figures that's when he'll do it.


80 posted on 03/11/2005 7:25:53 PM PST by AmishDude (The Clown Prince-in-a-can of Free Republic!)
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