"Flop your movie will too if nothing more than gooey love story. Hmmpphh!"
Posted on 05/04/2005 7:14:23 AM PDT by dead
Ask George Lucas about his hopes for the closing instalment of Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith, and he replies that he expects it to fail.
In an interview with TIME magazine, Lucas says that like everyone who makes movies, he is "always convinced the next one will be a flop".
"So right now I’m thinking it probably won’t make any money and will be considered a failure."
But in spite of his fears, he concedes he is very satisfied with the final product. "I think it turned out as well as I could have hoped, and at the same time I'm very glad that I finished it."
Others may be less glad the saga has finally come to an end. In the first published review of Revenge of the Sith, filmmaker, Kevin Smith described the film as "so satisfyingly tragic, you'll think you're watching 'Othello' or 'Hamlet'".
"This is the 'Star Wars' prequel the haters have been bitching for since 'Menace' came out, and if they don't cop to that when they finally see it, they're lying," added the maker of Clerks, Chasing Amy and Jersey Girl.
Despite the staunch enthusiasm of fans of the original Star Wars, Lucas said he never really entertained the fact that there would ever be more than one film. "I expected it to take me a year, year and a half to make, and then I expected to move on to other things."
Lucas considers the Star Wars storytelling format very stylised, and "very much in opposition to what my natural inclinations are".
He now hopes to explore more abstract forms of filmmaking that interested him in his days at film school. "It's vaguely in the land of music videos, I guess, but I don't even know how to describe them. I know they won't be mainstream movies. I'm sure they'll be just as criticized as Star Wars films are," he said.
Lucas also has a hankering to work in television principally to shift away from doing anything that may considered "important". He said television offered the chance to do "really great work" without all of the "megillah" that surrounds film.
Revenge of the Sith is being released around the world on May 19.
Prior to Episode 1 Pepsi gave Lucasfilm roughly 2 billion for the marketing rights for the all the prequel films.
That's certainly one way to look at it but on the other hand I still find the original a good movie with very basic themes that are ageless. While there was advanced film technology in it they weren't really the story.
It seemed like each subsequent movie the film technology became more of the focus and thus they lost their "charm".
So I still watch the original from time to time (I have the first three on Laserdisc), I think the story has held up well like a good John Ford movie and unlike the rest.
I always felt this would be the most difficult one to make.
The Jedi are destroyed. The Republic is taken over by Evil.
But I'm still hoping for something good. This could have been the best series ever.
you obviously don't know much about star wars fans. or the movie industry. How can you possibly say that two films grossing in the hundreds of millions of dollars, several successful video games, and multiple best selling books equates to his idea "biting him in the arse"?
The first 3 were OK ('cept for everyone waving Buh Bye at the end).
But the pre-quels have been downright insulting! Vapid, kiddish, juvenile with the most wooden acting ever.
He should have quit after the first film.
He got caught up in his fame and his radical politically correct ideas.
As the Beetles said long ago ignorant Americans will buy just about any kind of stupid S#!t that can be put on the market.
Michael Jackson is jealous.
Every good myth/legend/fairy tale is about people. Their passions, dreams, hopes, struggles, achievements, failures, motivations. The central players in Phantom Menace were, to be blunt, imbecilic cartoons. The characters portrayed by human actors were bloodless caricatures, barely and badly inked parodies of humanity.
Viewers of the original Star Wars movie (Episode IV) could identify with robust personalities: the young Luke Skywalker, frustrated bumpkin. Han Solo, harried smuggler on the run. Phantom Menace offered no like points of empathy.
“Industrial light and magic” pyrotechnics have prospered during the last 20 years. Unfortunately, George Lucas’s personal growth did not keep pace. The befuddled bureaucrat and the little guy with big assignment of 1978 show more humanity, make more sense, and are more believable, than the AD 2000 George Lucas. It’s a shame when an artist is upstaged by creations like C3P0 and R2D2!
As “the force” moves to the fore in his movies and life, Lucas leaves humanity behind. Alas. With blasphemous depravity, Lucas offers us a virgin-born prince of darkness. Merry Christmas, fans.
I've read the script. There's not much to the "gooey love story". It is a dark, tragic tale.
Evil will always triumph over good... because good is stupid! LOL
WRONG! It was A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away....
"He should have quit after the first film. "
Billions of dollars in gross revenue have been generated by the Star Wars industry and you think he should have quit after the first movie?
Speaking of light sabers, I watched Ep IV on DVD the other day.
The Obi-Wan/Vader duel there is LAME compared with, say, the Obi-Wan/Maul duel in Ep I.
< /fanboy >
Where is the Simpson's Comic Guy? I want to see him with a caption "Worst...episode..ever!" Stat!
I have no idea what you're going for there.
You got something against chewy??
Damn, I wish one of my ideas would bite me on the arse like that.
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