He meant human heroes killing many human villains. They very purposely didn’t do it much after A New Hope. It became mainly faceless and non human characters in the later films.
No, he didn’t. As I quoted George again in my post:
George Lucas: Yeah, we very consciously didn’t kill very many humans in those movies.
The facts in the “movies” (plural) themselves prove they also did do this after Star Wars (1977).
George forgets the title of his films are “Star Wars”, and also the more bloodshed content in them.
He wants to play down some of the violence in them as he aged, had a family, and maybe wants to leave a moral legacy behind.
Looking for justifications for his retcons and false claims is not new to him.I will not derail your thread further as this is about the many differing and changing incarnations of his Sequel Trilogy, including the times George said they did not exist and never existed, other than his previous vague claims and ideas.
“When writing the movies, I tried to make sure that aliens and droids got killed, but not people.”
I think he implied as much. The only human hero to human villain killing after A New Hope were Anakin/Darth Vader and Luke versus Palpatine where Palpatine dies, Mace Windu versus Jango Fett where Jango dies, Anakin and Obi-Wan versus Count Dooku where Dooku dies, and with villain killing - Mace Windu versus Palpatine where Mace dies.
The violence in his films was always done consciously and its purpose within the narrative always came first. It was never done in a way where violence took precedence in a senseless way of being violent for the sake of it. That’s what he’s trying to say I think. He thought very much of the psychological effects his films would have on children especially. He very purposely held back on letting things stray too far into senseless.
Anyways, you’re right. No need to stop the thread from continuing as George’s Sequel Trilogy.
I’m very curious as to how Darth Maul would be portrayed as the “Godfather of Crime”. It sounds like such an interesting hook with the fall of the Hutts and Empire. It only makes sense that someone would try exploiting it to gain control over the Republic which is still very much rebuilding. I’m curious how he’d go about trying to exploit it and everything. We know bits and pieces but not enough to know anything definitive.
What does everyone have in mind for what this would look like?