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'They didn't use any of my ideas': George Lucas says new Star Wars film is not how he envisioned it
UK Daily Mail ^ | January 21, 2015 | Shyam Dodge

Posted on 01/21/2015 12:57:30 PM PST by C19fan

George Lucas had already been planning to make a seventh Star Wars film before he sold his company Lucasfilm to Disney. When the auteur handed over his iconic franchise he also gave the studio his plotline for Star Wars: Episode 7. Disney, however, did not use any of the 70-year-old filmmakers ideas for the new installment.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hollywood; lucas; moviereview; star; starwars; wars
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To: C19fan
The prequels took a single line from the original Star Wars flick and turned it into three lousy movies. Imagine what a creative mind could have done with the kind of resources Lucas squandered.

And if you haven't already done so everyone should watch Red Letter Media's takedown of the prequels. Amazingly well done.

21 posted on 01/21/2015 1:15:25 PM PST by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Be prepared for at least one gay character.

Already been done. You didn't know that C3P0 was gay?

22 posted on 01/21/2015 1:16:42 PM PST by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: C19fan

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the new Star Wars Rebels cartoon series. Billy Dee came back for the Lando Calrissian role in the last episode and still sounds the same.


23 posted on 01/21/2015 1:17:31 PM PST by Teflonic
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To: jalisco555

Riff Trax does all six.

You can get samples from You Tube.


24 posted on 01/21/2015 1:17:36 PM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: C19fan

I don’t know Lucas man. Yousa startin pretty okee-day with a brisky movie munchy, then BOOM! Yousa gettin very lame and makin that Jar Jar and kiddy Vader! Yousa gettin’ very very lame!


25 posted on 01/21/2015 1:17:59 PM PST by kidd
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To: KC_Lion

Gene Roddenbery he ain’t and never was.

I do thank him for ILM though. Thanks to the advances in computer power/tech they brought into being with their presence, ...

SKYRIM!!!

Nuff said ;)


26 posted on 01/21/2015 1:19:06 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Disambiguator

Having read about his involvement in movies and video games, he always has the worst ideas.


27 posted on 01/21/2015 1:20:05 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Or perhaps an entire race of them who use cloning for 'reporduction'.

So they are going to rip off "Ethan of Athos"?

Would not surprise me.

:sigh:

28 posted on 01/21/2015 1:20:26 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Billthedrill
I was looking forward to The Jar Jar Binks Story.

We'll learn in the new film that his childhood name was Mickey Jar Jar.

29 posted on 01/21/2015 1:20:31 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Billthedrill

NEVER E V E R speak the demon cursed name of the Space Basset.

E V E R....


30 posted on 01/21/2015 1:20:43 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Yes, that was my thoughts too. You can bet Disney plans to roll with a fagot or two in the next three films.


31 posted on 01/21/2015 1:21:24 PM PST by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
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To: OftheOhio

“I see your Schwartz is as big as mine....”


32 posted on 01/21/2015 1:23:38 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: C19fan

The problem with those movies is Lucas totally left out the element of humor that made the 1970s -early 1980s ones so good. You know like when Princess Leia says to Han Solo “I love you” and he says “I know”. Stuff like that made it great, plus casting someone who can’t act for shet like Hayden Christensen was a disaster. it came across as a amatuer project with a big budget for special effects, not to mention the plot pretty much sucked.


33 posted on 01/21/2015 1:23:43 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 8 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: MrB

I couldn’t get through the first prequel!


34 posted on 01/21/2015 1:23:57 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: C19fan

I’m setting on pins and needles waiting for HOWARD THE DUCK II!

Darn! A blister just came up on my tongue. That’s what I get for lying!


35 posted on 01/21/2015 1:26:23 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: C19fan

J.J. Abrams will do way better.


36 posted on 01/21/2015 1:27:28 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Norm Lenhart

Think of Jar Jar cloned. An entire PLANET full of his offspring squeaking “Meesa poop my diaper!” Welcome to Hell.


37 posted on 01/21/2015 1:28:55 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: C19fan

What’s interesting is when you see the guys resume for directing, it’s sparse as hell. Look at that huge gap between 1977 and 1999.. That’s 22 freakin’ years the guy never directed a movie. In a 50 year career the guy has only ever directed 6 major pictures.

2005 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2002 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2000 Short Chaos 10 (Video short) (short “Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB”)
1999 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
1973 American Graffiti
1971 THX 1138
1971 Bald: The Making of ‘THX 1138’ (Documentary short) (uncredited)
1969 The Making of ‘The Rain People’ (Documentary)
1968 Filmmaker (Documentary short)
1967 6-18-67 (Short documentary)
1967 Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town (Short)
1967 The Emperor (Documentary short)
1967 Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB (Short)
1966 1:42.08 (Documentary short)
1966 Freiheit (Short) (as Lucas)
1966 Herbie (Short)
1965 Look at Life (Short)


38 posted on 01/21/2015 1:30:07 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 8 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: Billthedrill

Looked outside your window lately?


39 posted on 01/21/2015 1:32:19 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: KC_Lion; C19fan; max americana; GraceG; SevenofNine; Norm Lenhart; TADSLOS; GrandJediMasterYoda

Yoda: “ For 4 BILLION, you will snivel NOT!”


40 posted on 01/21/2015 1:32:23 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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