Episode 7!
Moderator: aTOMiC
-
Zarathustra
- The Gap Into Spam
- Posts: 19641
- Joined: Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:23 am
Damn you Zar, I was rushing here to post this!
Disney paid over $4 billion for Lucasfilm & ILM, they now own the rights to Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Crazy.
Disney paid over $4 billion for Lucasfilm & ILM, they now own the rights to Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Crazy.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
_____________
"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
_____________
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
_____________
_____________
"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
_____________
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
_____________
Damn you Zar, I was rushing here to post this!
Disney paid over $4 billion for Lucasfilm & ILM, they now own the rights to Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Crazy.
Disney paid over $4 billion for Lucasfilm & ILM, they now own the rights to Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Crazy.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
_____________
"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
_____________
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
_____________
_____________
"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
_____________
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
_____________
-
Orlion
- The Gap Into Spam
- Posts: 6666
- Joined: Sun Aug 26, 2007 12:30 am
- Location: Getting there...
- Been thanked: 1 time
Now, is it actually all of Star Wars, or just future installments? Cuz it'd be real nice to get the originals distributed again...
'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
Lucas is full of it. The original plan was a single movie. The phenomenal success of SW led to the original trilogy. It wasn't until 1978 or 1979 that the "trilogy of trilogies" idea was floated.Menolly wrote:Didn't Lucas say he originally planned nine films? And that even the authorized novels do not tell those stories?
There are a handful of interviews out there with Gary Kurtz. Literally everything you love about SW came from him. I strongly suggest reading about him.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
_____________
"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
_____________
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
_____________
_____________
"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
_____________
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
_____________
-
I'm Murrin
- Are you?
- Posts: 15840
- Joined: Tue Apr 08, 2003 1:09 pm
- Location: North East, UK
- Contact:
Lucas can't say the same thing from one year to the next. Not too long ago he said he'd arranged things so that when he dies no one would be allowed to do anything with Star Wars. This week he says he always hoped that it would be carried on into a new generation.Menolly wrote:Didn't Lucas say he originally planned nine films? And that even the authorized novels do not tell those stories?
Idiot. -
Cameraman Jenn
- The Gap Into Spam
- Posts: 13280
- Joined: Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:33 pm
- Location: Albuquerque NM (The Land of Enchantment)
I just can't see Harrison Ford as Han in a new movie unless they are doing the 50 years later final trilogy. He's a great grandfather now and showing his age. Sadly I think they will have to recast it and luckily bullets can't yet travel through a computer so I feel safe in saying I hope they crazy recast it like they did for the star trek film...
Here's Luke:
Here's Han:
Here's Leia:
I love them but they are NOT SW ready....and never will be...
Here's Luke:
Here's Han:
Here's Leia:
I love them but they are NOT SW ready....and never will be...
Now if I could just find a way to wear live bees as jewelry all the time.....
www.fantasybedtimehour.com
www.fantasybedtimehour.com
-
Cameraman Jenn
- The Gap Into Spam
- Posts: 13280
- Joined: Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:33 pm
- Location: Albuquerque NM (The Land of Enchantment)
I'm gonna double post so please forgive me. I think of all of them, Carrie has aged the best but she's got a ton of weight to lose and even then it ain't happening. Mark just looks old and while Harrison looks old too he is just hanging by a thread to his attractiveness it's highly diminished IMHO. Also, I, like Avatar am skeptical about the whole Disney/StarWars/Disney/StarWars thing. I'm kinda excited but kinda like oh shiza, I hope we dont end up with some sappy kid friendly mangling of star wars...
Now if I could just find a way to wear live bees as jewelry all the time.....
www.fantasybedtimehour.com
www.fantasybedtimehour.com
-
Mortice Root
- Bloodguard
- Posts: 980
- Joined: Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:05 am
- Location: Wisconsin
I'm very excited by this. Disney is fully capable of producing good stuff, that isn't always kid oriented.
I hope they don't try to use original cast members. Something well after Jedi would be good placement-wise.
I dabble in extended universe stuff and do like some of it, but I think making an original story is probably the way to go, rather than trying to stay with the canon as presented in books and comics.
Yah, Star Wars!
I hope they don't try to use original cast members. Something well after Jedi would be good placement-wise.
I dabble in extended universe stuff and do like some of it, but I think making an original story is probably the way to go, rather than trying to stay with the canon as presented in books and comics.
Yah, Star Wars!
"The plural of antecdotes is not evidence."
-------------
Driving down the razor's edge between the past and the future
Turn up the music and smile
Get carried away on the songs and stories of vanished times
-------------
Driving down the razor's edge between the past and the future
Turn up the music and smile
Get carried away on the songs and stories of vanished times
-
Menolly
- A Lowly Harper
- Posts: 24086
- Joined: Thu May 19, 2005 12:29 am
- Location: Harper Hall, Fort Hold, Northern Continent, Pern...
- Has thanked: 1 time
- Been thanked: 8 times
- Contact:
Well, it sounds as if Lucas did plan on the original characters being well aged...
Star Wars sequel trilogy
Star Wars sequel trilogy
-
Avatar
- Immanentizing The Eschaton
- Posts: 61765
- Joined: Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:17 am
- Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
- Has thanked: 15 times
- Been thanked: 22 times
No way man...if canon is canon, then it's canon. That's sorta the whole point.Mortice Root wrote:I dabble in extended universe stuff and do like some of it, but I think making an original story is probably the way to go, rather than trying to stay with the canon as presented in books and comics.
They could still do plenty of new stuff in and around it. Not even necessarily the same characters. But to retell the original story with different actors would be horribly wrong. (Even ST didn't do that.)
It's either gotta be long enough after VI so that it's new characters, or it has to go KotOR style. (Which would be cool too.)
--A
-
Mortice Root
- Bloodguard
- Posts: 980
- Joined: Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:05 am
- Location: Wisconsin
I had always thought that Lucas had said that only the films (and maybe the Clone Wars tv show) were cannon anyway. (Not that Lucas is ever the model of consistency in his pronouncements.... 
).
I just think that the new filmmakers will be very restrained if they try to make a new film that's consistent with all of the expanded universe.
).I just think that the new filmmakers will be very restrained if they try to make a new film that's consistent with all of the expanded universe.
"The plural of antecdotes is not evidence."
-------------
Driving down the razor's edge between the past and the future
Turn up the music and smile
Get carried away on the songs and stories of vanished times
-------------
Driving down the razor's edge between the past and the future
Turn up the music and smile
Get carried away on the songs and stories of vanished times
-
Hashi Lebwohl
- The Gap Into Spam
- Posts: 19576
- Joined: Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:38 pm
Canon is never canon, just ask Marvel and DC. How many times have they retconned themselves, even to the point of retconning earlier retcons? Consider DC: there used to be mutliple parallel universes, then only one, and now there are multiples again. Of course, that is why I don't get back into comic books, but that is an entirely different thread.
The Tank is gone and now so am I.
-
Avatar
- Immanentizing The Eschaton
- Posts: 61765
- Joined: Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:17 am
- Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
- Has thanked: 15 times
- Been thanked: 22 times
*shrug* The plots etc of all the authorised extended universe had to be approved. That makes them accepted parts of the story surely. (Or should.) Which makes them canon.Mortice Root wrote:I had always thought that Lucas had said that only the films (and maybe the Clone Wars tv show) were cannon anyway. (Not that Lucas is ever the model of consistency in his pronouncements....
Doesn't make it right.Hashi Lebwohl wrote:Canon is never canon, just ask Marvel and DC. How many times have they retconned themselves, even to the point of retconning earlier retcons?
--A
Canon is whatever whoever owns the rights decides it is. All else is just geekery.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
_____________
"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
_____________
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
_____________
_____________
"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
_____________
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
_____________