He says that Lucas invited himself and Carrie Fisher to lunch during the summer and told them about the plans to do the next 3 films (but said nothing of the sale to Disney). He didn't go into details about the story, but it makes you think the reason he wanted to meet with them was to give them the heads-up.
Alec Guinness was 63 when Star Wars was released. Mark Hamill is 61 now (Fisher is 56).
He says that Lucas invited himself and Carrie Fisher to lunch during the summer and told them about the plans to do the next 3 films (but said nothing of the sale to Disney). He didn't go into details about the story, but it makes you think the reason he wanted to meet with them was to give them the heads-up.
Alec Guinness was 63 when Star Wars was released. Mark Hamill is 61 now (Fisher is 56).
really hope that if they do go the original cast route, that Ford sucks it up and does it too. if he can sign on for crap like Space Cowboys, surely he should be able to play Han Solo once more and earn a brand new legion of devoted fans
this won't be popular or realistic, but I'd like to see them take a risk and do a Star Wars movie without much (or any) Jedi stuff. After watching Lucas fill 3 prequels with armies of crappy kendo student extras, lightsabers being ignited every 4 seconds, and pointlessly long duels, I would love if they did something that was more like Shadows of the Empire or the Tie Fighter PC game, where the main character isn't force powered.
Sure, you can still have Jedis or Siths as part of the SW backdrop, but having less emphasis on shiny laser swords and telekinetics might actually force the screenwriter to create characters that are compelling in their own right. A New Hope did pretty good with very limited Force usage, because it was fun watching rogue Han, spunky Leia, prissy 3P0, etc. in a straightforward space adventure. The last 3 films were about waving sabers in your face so that you forgot for a second how nonsensical the script was.
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the Darth Plageous book to me was excellent because it gave a bunch of back story to Palpatine.
the best series was the trilogy around revenge of the Sith
Labaryth of Evil, Revenge of the Sith and Dark Lord the rise of Darth Vader.
I find much of the post ROTJ stuff to be terrible where you have a bunch of massively over powered Jedi fighting massively stupid enemies (A slab of meat painted gold) or super Weapons (eye of Palpatine)
While I did enjoy the fall of Jacen Solo in the and the new civil war, the Vong stuff got stupid, as did the Fate of the Jedi series which tried to link to the Clone wars.
The old republic books were decent.
Don't get me wrong, I didn't hate the Thrawn trilogy, he was just underwhelming in that series and you never felt that our heros were in trouble and the whole Joorus C'boath Luuuuke clones made me cringe.
I haven't read much of the pre-Episode 4 books, so I can't comment on them. I enjoyed most of the books I've read, but definitely agree on the over-powered Jedi idea. I liked the X-Wing series because it got away from that (even if the fighter pilots were also extremely dominant compared to their opponents). I think when the books switched from Bantam to Del Rey (starting with the New Jedi Order), the quality went way up.
The Thrawn trilogy was great, imo, minus the slightly mispronounced clones, particularly because of how much grew out of it. That series seems like the basis for the EU as much as Episodes 4-6 sometimes.
New Jedi Order I thought was absolutely brilliant right through Star by Star, and lost its way after that. I liked the way it started challenging the whole light vs dark conception of the force and thought that could have been explored much better. The series in general was just a great departure from what Star Wars books had been up until then. I like that they weren't afraid to destroy anything and everything.
I haven't read much of the pre-Episode 4 books, so I can't comment on them. I enjoyed most of the books I've read, but definitely agree on the over-powered Jedi idea. I liked the X-Wing series because it got away from that (even if the fighter pilots were also extremely dominant compared to their opponents). I think when the books switched from Bantam to Del Rey (starting with the New Jedi Order), the quality went way up.
The Thrawn trilogy was great, imo, minus the slightly mispronounced clones, particularly because of how much grew out of it. That series seems like the basis for the EU as much as Episodes 4-6 sometimes.
New Jedi Order I thought was absolutely brilliant right through Star by Star, and lost its way after that. I liked the way it started challenging the whole light vs dark conception of the force and thought that could have been explored much better. The series in general was just a great departure from what Star Wars books had been up until then. I like that they weren't afraid to destroy anything and everything.
The New Jedi Order is when I gave up on Star Wars books. I maybe read one or two after that.
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this won't be popular or realistic, but I'd like to see them take a risk and do a Star Wars movie without much (or any) Jedi stuff. After watching Lucas fill 3 prequels with armies of crappy kendo student extras, lightsabers being ignited every 4 seconds, and pointlessly long duels, I would love if they did something that was more like Shadows of the Empire or the Tie Fighter PC game, where the main character isn't force powered.
Sure, you can still have Jedis or Siths as part of the SW backdrop, but having less emphasis on shiny laser swords and telekinetics might actually force the screenwriter to create characters that are compelling in their own right. A New Hope did pretty good with very limited Force usage, because it was fun watching rogue Han, spunky Leia, prissy 3P0, etc. in a straightforward space adventure. The last 3 films were about waving sabers in your face so that you forgot for a second how nonsensical the script was.
my thoughts to a T, new characters, less lightsaber battles, make the actual conflict have weight to it. An explosion happens and it changes the course of the main characters' life, a lightsaber gets turned on and you gasp in excitement because there's a twist and you haven't seen a lightsaber the whole movie.
this won't be popular or realistic, but I'd like to see them take a risk and do a Star Wars movie without much (or any) Jedi stuff. After watching Lucas fill 3 prequels with armies of crappy kendo student extras, lightsabers being ignited every 4 seconds, and pointlessly long duels, I would love if they did something that was more like Shadows of the Empire or the Tie Fighter PC game, where the main character isn't force powered.
Sure, you can still have Jedis or Siths as part of the SW backdrop, but having less emphasis on shiny laser swords and telekinetics might actually force the screenwriter to create characters that are compelling in their own right. A New Hope did pretty good with very limited Force usage, because it was fun watching rogue Han, spunky Leia, prissy 3P0, etc. in a straightforward space adventure. The last 3 films were about waving sabers in your face so that you forgot for a second how nonsensical the script was.
Which is exactly why I'd love to see the new trilogy revolve around the X-Wing series which follows Wedge and Rogue Squadron. I want to see more space combat this time around.
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I agree that Robot Chicken should do the new films. It's not like they're going to be good anyway. It's going to be typical middle-of-the-road Hollywood boredom instead of Lucas' idiosyncratic awfulness - and I think I prefer Lucas, since at least it's funny.
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I might be in the minority but I would enjoy seeing what a director, who is actually a big fan of Star Wars would do with the franchise. I am thinking some one like Kevin Smith. I think he would be able to keep it fun and light. I dont want a Nolan or JJ Abrams retooling of Star Wars.
I like the idea of the original cast, especially if they went along the lines of a Timothy Zahn script. The comments about Carrie Fisher are kind of mean.
