Vaderisnothayden said:I'm in favor of he 97 SE being made available on dvd and blu-ray. It's part of Star Wars history and it's important to the study of how Lucas's Star Wars mindset developed. I have it on vhs. At least it doesn't have Hayden leering at the end.
He takes an outtake of hayden from episode III, and digitally cuts him into the scene, cause we all know Hayden was such a better actor than Shaw,lol.
If Anakin really died when he turned sith then just who the hell did Luke save/redeem on the Death Star II?
It is like becoming a sith so you can stop people from dying but killing your wife, when your whole reason for turning was to save her. Boy did Lucas drop the ball on that one. Also remember he totally forget to film the lightsaber being picked up from the ground to later give to luke, they had to do pickups to get the footage.
He is not that familiar with the oot as evidenced from interviews, and probably did not even bother watching them before writing and shooting the prequels to keep things consistent. Even if he was too lazy he could have had one or more of his employees do this and put together notes from the scripts and films, a continuity journal as the series existed after return of the jedi in 1983.
He got a master database set up to keep things consistent in the EU, but for the canon film series no such attention to detail matters? Must have slipped his mind.
In my opinion star wars deserved better, if he was going to half ass it he may as well have hired other writers and directors who respected the material to make the new films.
And Look at some of the actors the prequels had, and their talents were completely wasted. Ewan Mcgregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, Christopher Lee etc.
They wanted a james dean type for Anakin, a reason we got Hayden. Though look at his screen test he has almost no presence or charisma which are things dean had in spades. But his screen test was better than his performance in the films so Lucas must be the problem since Lucas did not direct the test but Robin gurland did, but she definitely is no fred roos. You see Sophia Coppola went to bat for Hayden and pretty much got him the job, George Lucas being her godfather and all. He had a bit part in the Virgin Suicides ?
That dude from Dawson's creek almost got the job, not van der beek the other guy, Josh Jackson.
Star Wars can be a blessing and a curse for actors it probably cost Mcgregor his chance to be james bond, because the producers did not want obi wan as bond. Not that he was ever really in the running but he was not even considered because of being typecast. But the same thing happened to Hugh Jackman being typecast as Wolverine, and also to Christian Bale being typecast as Batman.