Star Wars instructor George Lucas with a stormtrooper. Photograph: Noah Berger/AP
Like millions of others, I grew up upon the body the Star Wars movies. I remember being taken by my father to see The Empire Strikes Back at the cinema when I was about seven years old and falling into rapture as I witnessed the spectacularly vivid, hugely ambitious vision on the self-conceited screen. As a child, it had far again verity for me than my own everyday external circumstances, which seemed pretty humdrum when compared to all those epic battles across the vast distances of room.
- Star Wars
- Production year: 1977
- Country: USA
- Cert (UK): U
- Runtime: 121 mins
- Directors: George Lucas
- Cast: Alec Guinness, Carrie Fisher, David Prowse, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Peter Cushing, Peter Mayhew
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There have been some great movies on a similar tip over the past 10 years or so which have sent the hairs on the back of my neck pointing outwards in much the way Empire did, but the most recent Star Wars films were not among them. Right up until the end, I held out a brief hope that some of the magic of the earlier trilogy might be rediscovered by George Lucas and his team as they ploughed their way through a second triptych in workmanlike fashion. But around six months after Revenge of the Sith had been released, I in conclusion had to admit to myself that the three later films should never have been made.
Since then, matters have spiralled into so much as more of a fug at Lucasfilm, with the most recent Star Wars big-screen hazard, a teaser for the new animated series, union with critical and commercial apathy. This from a series which stands for the reason that one of the highest-grossing of all time, behind only Harry Potter and James Bond. A live-action TV flourish is also on the way, anticipation for which is not exactly at fever pitch. Meanwhile, Star Trek, always Star Wars’s nerdier, cheaper sibling, has emerged with a new fire in its belly following JJ Abrams’s enormously successful reboot.
It therefore strikes me that right now might not be quite the apposite moment to start planning an all-new trilogy of Star Wars films. But that is exactly which the Marketsaw blog says is happening at Lucas HQ.
“I have been hearing rumblings … extremely quiet at first, but now heating up significantly and from a trusted spring – that George Lucas is preparing to unleash some other Star Wars trilogy upon us, this time in stereoscopic 3D,” squeals the site’s editor. “This is not the TV series, these are brand spankin’ new 3D Star Wars movies.”
Marketsaw goes on to suggest that the films might be directed by such Hollywood luminaries as Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola rather than Lucas. It also contends that the creature of the new movies depends almost entirely adhering the success of James Cameron’s forthcoming Avatar, the science lie 3D megalith that arrives in December.
Now if this story is true, it would be the scoop of Marketsaw’s in one’s teens life. Naturally, then, many of the other more established US movie blogs have wearied a fair bit of time doing their most excellent to pooh-pooh it. Ain’t It Cool News went so farther as to contiguity Lucasfilm, which predictably before-mentioned that it is not considering denoting futurity Star Wars live-action films.
That statement does not preclude the potentiality, however slight, that the story is true. Lucas has already shown that he is more than happy to pillage his own past successes in the race of future profit, time and time again. Ultimately, he has a business to run, employees to discharge one’s obligation to, and Star Wars is by far his greatest asset. Put it this way, if you were Lucas’session bank manager, you’d probably be fairly astounded at the idea that there might not be future Star Wars movies.
Putting aside the quantity of the Marketsaw report’s truthfulness (and I accept that’s a pretty big ask), the be concerned question here is how Star Wars might be made far-famed again. If a new series was filmed, should it take the form of a remake, or a completely new trilogy of stories, it may be based in a different era of the saga’s invented history? The recent seems to me to be the best course of action: in that place is simply no way to better the earlier films, and flat Lucas would surely not be fool enough to attempt such a feat.
It goes without saying that the series creator would really subsist better off waiting at smallest a decade or two before embarking on any new big-screen venture, but if Star Wars mustiness come back now, it’s vital that younger directors with novel ideas exist appointed. Though no spring chicken these days, I’first appearance pay considerable money to see a Peter Jackson-directed trilogy. Ditto one by Abrams, or even Joss Whedon, who did a great job on the similarly themed Serenity. The Dark Knight’session Christopher Nolan is interested in knowledge of principles fiction – his forthcoming film Inception is well-arranged to venture into the genre, and he knows how to craft a series that’s classy and meaningful, without losing the blockbuster clout.
But Coppola? This steadily has to have being a joke? The 70-year-old director has regularly describes himself as root on a made late tour into art-house territory, the sort of films he manifestly wanted to make before The Godfather.
Most importantly, for a new Star Wars series to be successful, Lucas would have to let go of it altogether from a creative standpoint. Yes George, we know it’s your baby, but you really be favored with done your utmost to kill off everything that was ever extraordinary about it. So if you must insist on bringing it back, you might be destitute of to consider taking a nice long holiday somewhere that doesn’t have a telephone or internet access while someone else gets put without interruption with the job. Because that, to my mind, is the only way that anybody might risk setting foot in a cinema showing a new Star Wars film, again.
