George Lucas interviews

Here is a hilarious interview of George Lucas with Leonard Maltin sometime in the 90's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRhGZ27cYIQ

But seriously speaking, I really can't take anything George Lucas has said seriously about the story of Star Wars since '97 because it really seems to me that he has been making things up as he goes along.  I don't mind what he says in interviews outside of star wars, but when it comes to star wars, it seems like he pulls ideas out of his rear on the spot and tries to make it sound like he has always had the story of Star Wars planned since he started it back in the early '70s. He's like a politician in an open question debate, he'll say whatever you want to hear to get you to buy whatever it is, he is trying to sell.

Well Duhhhhhhhhhhh! Thing is, George Lucas seems to want us to think the story of Star Wars was always about anakin. But before the prequels it was always a story that centered around Luke. I would type more but I'm too lazy right now.

Wow, this thread turned out to be a hit ;-).

Negative, negative. It didn't go in; just impacted on the surface.

On a somewhat related note, I just got around to watching all three of those interviews for the very first time last night. But the thing that struck me even more than what GL says in the interviews is the realization that this was the "one last time" vhs release and it only took, what, two measly years for them to cave and put it out on dvd (anamorphic or not) after they'd released the SE in 04?

I know, it's just that it didn't occur to me how funny it is that it took seven whole years to get the movies on dvd at all, but it only took two more years for LFL to cave and release the original versions, even if they were just laserdisc quality.

Back in '95,  I saw it as a simple cash grab similar to how disney would always do a "get it before we throw it back in the vault" release. I still think that's all it was, even in spite of the SE. The whole non-anamorphic bidniss was just GL exploiting the situation with dvd. Hi-def will be a whole 'nother ballpark.

Getting back to the Maltin interviews, I only recall GL mentioning the (then forthcoming) SE once throughout the entire thing. It was during the Jedi segment when he says "oh, we're actually putting Jabba back into ANH." So, was the SE common knowledge among any of you back in '95? I, for one, was fairly surprised to hear about it in November of '96.

Fang Zei said:

On a somewhat related note, I just got around to watching all three of those interviews for the very first time last night. But the thing that struck me even more than what GL says in the interviews is the realization that this was the "one last time" vhs release and it only took, what, two measly years for them to cave and put it out on dvd (anamorphic or not) after they'd released the SE in 04?

Where did you find the whole interview, and what are the two others that you speak of? Oh and we all know Lucas is full of shit. I'd be willing to bet, Lucas said after finishing Last Crusade that he wouldn't be making anymore Indy films, and I'd be willing to bet in a few years he gets bored and decides to make episodes 7, 8, and 9. I'm looking forward to seeing him try to talk his way out of that one. After all, on various occasions he has said on national televison and in major publicity that he would not be making anymore star wars movies (or in his case, lack of).

That's what I thought, thanks. I didn't think I had the '95 VHS releases but when I went in my basement like a week ago I found them sitting in a stash of junk. I don't know where they came from, but I'll check em' out.