Can never get over the line of thinking that because Lucas had multiple ideas for the sequels that means he had x number of alternate versions, the creative process aside along with the fact that these are three movies we’re talking about already, this is the guy obsessed with intercutting multiple stories.
We know for a fact that the one he submitted in 2012 wasn’t the microscopic one, or the one with Darth Maul, and an older one which isn’t the one submitted in 2012, the microscopic one, or the one with Darth Maul. It could be that the older one was just spitballing, the one submitted in 2012 was catering to Disney, and that he had one main idea with the microscopic ideas and Darth Maul coming back. But I find it more likely he was spitballing the whole time and never had one, single ST idea.
Not true. Check out this interview with Jett Lucas from 2013. He knew in 2011 that George was writing for the Sequel Trilogy.
The claims that Darth Maul and Midi-Chlorians weren’t part of these treatments are from unclaimed sources. I trust George and Jett more than I do narrative. Disney has actively tried burying what George says. They did the same thing when Marcia spoke out and with Jonathan Rinzler’s making of book for The Force Awakens. They put it on the shelf because it surely made them look bad. Disney has a long history of covering up things they don’t want the public to know.
Can never get over the line of thinking that because Lucas had multiple ideas for the sequels that means he had x number of alternate versions, the creative process aside along with the fact that these are three movies we’re talking about already, this is the guy obsessed with intercutting multiple stories.
I don’t think it makes me a bad person to change my mind.
No, in fact I would say that makes you a better writer! Rewriting, and thinking along different lines than you did at first, can be hard.
I agree and it really is. It can also be quite funny too. It would be silly if I used my story I had long ago now. I don’t think anyone wants to see skeletons riding dinosaurs with weird aliens traveling in underwater ships with swords. Haha