George Lucas announces two more Star Wars-based projects: a continuation of the very-cool Clone Wars animated sequel which originally showed as a series of short vignettes on the Cartoon Network, and two one-hour live-action movies which take place between the birth of Darth Vader and the rise of the Rebel Alliance.
Okay, these will probably suck. The live-action ones, anyhow. As I mentioned, The Clone Wars was actually quite entertaining. And, as Ross points out, the second trilogy actually had the extra-negative effect of retroactively reducing your enjoyment of the early ones. But my theory is, at this point, he can't really do any more damage to the previous movies, unless he puts out a new movie at the end of which we see Mark Hamill wake up in modern-day Peoria, Illinois, and declare "it was all a dream!"
Although you have to love Lucas' attempted takedown of Spider-Man 3: "there's not much story, is there?" Well, George, you are clearly the prosecution's expert witness in the area of 'movies without much story,' so I guess we'll have to take your word for it!
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I agree with you that the Clone Wars animated series was extremely cool. The best thing to come out of the Star Wars universe since 1980, in my opinion. Unfortunately the magic of the first two volumes came from the genius of Genndy Tartokovsky, creator of Dexter's Lab and Samurai Jack, producer and animator on PowerPuff Girls, and, I think, the best animator working in 2D today. As you can see from the imdb site, he is not involved with the new, upcoming animated series. Furthermore, around the time Episode III came out George Lucas was saying in interviews that the Clone Wars animated series would continue in the form of a 3D, computer animated series. While I hope it ain't so, I'm afraid this series may be one more example of Lucas eschewing good stories and characters in favor of razzle-dazzle computer effects.
For fans of Tartokovsky, it's rumored that he is pitching an animated series of Steven King's Dark Tower books. That sounds cool.
Its all about Ewok Adventures and Caravan of Courage!
On the same note, there was a Digg article about Lucas saying that Empire was the worst of the 6, which is odd, since almost every single person, outside of Randoll, likes Empire best.
It seems totally obvious to me that Lucas would like Empire the least. Tying together these two comments, it's the least special effect-laden of the original three, which means that he would like it the least. Somewhere between American Graffiti and Phantom Menace, he completely sold his soul to the demons of CGI.
To be fair, A. Evan (if that is your real name), when did Lucas ever have good stories and characters? In Star Wars, they weren't comically ridiculous and juvenile, but we're not really talking Stanley Kubrick, either.
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