Saga Would you be fine with George Lucas "regaining" Star Wars and the rights to the franchise again?

As I was saying....

 

Do any of you remember that GL once said or mentioned the idea for 13 movies? I still have the Starlog and other literature from back then. He would leave the movies end at RoJ. he did approve EU and fan made movies, let 501st have a lot of charitable, approved freedom(a lot more than now!) was not as restrictive as Disney is now. I am happy with all(except the remake of the OT) the movies.G.L. made. that is.

 

More so every day.

 

Yep. The PT is the apex of SW's creativity. I would love to be enthralled again in Lucas's penchant for worldbuilding, storytelling, and drama.

 

I wouldn't care.

 

nvm

 

I remember reading interviews where Lucas, ironically, said he didn't really see filmmaking as a big passion of his, he was more interested in his family. I think this was back during the PT?

Even though I wish he'd been involved with the ST or would come back to have more involvement in future projects, I can empathize with why he retired from the franchise.

I'd probably feel the same way. Sometimes I get really invested in wanting to tell a story I have a vision for. But if people disregard it and don't enjoy it, it's like, what's the point? I could be doing better things with my time. (I'm saying this as someone who put a lot of time into writing stories online that were mostly ignored.)

 

I’d be intrigued if it actually happened and possibly worried about the mental health of a few individuals. If it happened before the release of Ep 9, I would not like it, but now that the Skywalker saga is finished, I’m not invested anymore in the quality of the movies, so I would be intrigued.


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Back in the day when Lucas made ROTS he said it was over and he told the story he wanted to tell. He only initially got the sequel trilogy going because he wanted to give his employees something to work on. When he considered his age and other factors it was then that he sold SW to Disney.
So as far as I'm concerned we've got GL's SW.

 

Well, absolutely. If you own a company, the last thing you want is for your employees to be sitting there all day long with absolutely nothing to do.

 

Except that's not true and that video you posted is horribly misleading.

Marcia Lucas only edited about a third of the movie, she left before the final cut was completed, and she herself argued in favor of keeping those Luke-on-Tatooine scenes which that video implies to be evidence of Lucas's shortcomings. Lucas himself was the one who made the call to remove those scenes, against Marcia's objections (those deleted scenes were among the ones Marcia was responsible for editing).

Pretty big omission, no?

 

No.

Still many wounds open from 1999-2005.

 

No lol

 

Yes.

*stern and solemn expression*

 

Yeah just keep this imbecile away from Star Wars and all is good.

 

So I corrected the false thing that you said and your response is to insult me?

You should probably delete this post.

 

Of course I would be fine with it. It’s his creation.

 

Lucas himself does not have the fire to write or direct. But he has the ideas and the wisdom. My ideal hope would be for Lucas' ideas and wisdom to be processed through writers and directors who have experience in film other than vacuous blockbuster action franchises Transformers / Mission Impossible / (anything) JJ Abrams / Pirates of the Caribbean, Fast and Furious, Bay / Emmerich, etc.
I'm sure there's a probably excellent reason that Kathryn Bigelow would not make a good director for this material. I'm sure there's a probably excellent reason that Coen Brothers would not make a good director team for this material. I'm sure there's a probably excellent reason that Christopher Nolan would not make a good director for this material.
Rian Johnson could have been saddled and given a bit and he could have pulled a lot of dramatic weight. Nope, he was let completely loose.
Guillermo Del Toro could be reigned in, maybe, and produce a feasible Star Wars product...?
If someone could clone Quentin Tarantino and set his target market to 12 years old... and then have a bit and saddle... he could pull a lot of weight.

 

Yes. Imagine if he did and remade the ST? Then the current ST would be known as EU. Can you imagine???? The internet would surely explode! Sadly, this will not happen. ;(

 

Disney Reportedly Wants George Lucas to Return and Oversee Future “Star Wars” Films

https://themindunleashed.com/2019/12/disney-wants-george-lucas-oversee-future-star-wars-films.html

Welp, everyone, I think it's happening...

 

Amusing, looks like damage control, if this is true this are welcoming news.
If he helps with projects unrelated to the ST I can see sucess, but everything which have to do with the ST...uh even Lucas cant fix this.

 

This is an easy one for me. Of course. If GL makes a choice I disagree with, oh well, it's his story and he can do whatever the hell he wants. I'm never going to feel like GL is ruining GL's story. When Disney does it, it feels blasphemous, like how dare they purchase this man's legacy and baby, just to treat his characters and the story he build and told like garbage? If anyone is going to do that, it should only be GL lol.

 

I don't think it would really matter honestly.

The problem with the new SW has nothing really to do with whether George Lucas is at the helm or not. Disney's Star Wars has done good things (even whilst being divisive), but the one quality that George Lucas had over the new generation of SW is a clear vision and understanding for the story. The PT feels like a narrative that is planned from the start and told as singular story. Also there is so much imagination in Lucas' films that feels absent from New Star Wars, which mostly seeks to cash in on nostalgia. But GL isn't the only one with a booming imagination.

What the franchise needs is something both new and good. The Last Jedi, The Mandalorian, and Rogue One all feel like something new and different (even with Vader in RO). And none of those were made by George Lucas. The guy has great ideas and stuff, but there are plenty of other really talented people with great ideas who could do something for this franchise.

 

A little while ago, this might've seemed cool to me. I don't think Lucas coming back as a consultant is gonna course correct Disney's general failings with the property and flat out refusal to commit to diversity. But if Lucas makes it appear like that, then the corporation already has a victory under the belt.

 

Put me in the camp that really wants to see his sequel trilogy story treatments.

I think to be fair, Disney lacked his singluar vision and freedom to take risks, so the fact that committees made decisions limited the quality we could get, especially since making their money back has always been a high priority in the Disney era followed closely by minimizing controversy from various concern groups and fans.

Probably the worst decision in my opinion, after discarding most of Lucas' sequel outline, was the deliberate distancing from the prequel trilogy that afflicted The Force Awakens and its press junket. At a couple of points it felt like JJ Abrams was dismissive toward it and implied the sequels were the "real" continuation. Maybe I read it wrong though. The sequels improved when they acknowledged the whole continuity more. I really want to see what Lucas laid out however and I want to know just what they were afraid to do.