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As an aspiring screenwriter, I'd like to ask: if I wrote a screenplay and sent it out, and somehow George Lucas got a hold of it, read it, liked it and sent out his minions to find me and bring me before him in order to discuss him greenlighting the film, should I take his offer? So far everyone else I've asked this question of has told me that if this ever happened I should take the money and run, while only one other person out there has told me I should say no to him.

What do you all think?
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He would never, ever touch your screenplay. He has no access to material sent by fans. Imagine he makes a movie similar to a screenplay you have written and you sue him: he will prove he never had access to what you have written.

Nice username... I belive Solo would fry Dr. Jones' ass.
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Thanks for the user name compliment. What's your avatar of?

I didn't mean sending the screenplay to Lucas as a fan thing, I just meant sending my screenplay to the 20th Century Fox studio or Lucasfilm or any filmmaking outlet in general.
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

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Yeah, sorry. But out of curiosity Sean, what's your avatar of?
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.

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His is the cover of the album "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd.

Mine is the character "Gaara", from the anime "Naruto".
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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I think the only way you might ever get involved in work with him is if he
hired you to writte his story. I think he would not accept a story that you invented.
But I think he would hire someone he knows rather.

And what would that script be? SW or something other?
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If you're going to send a screenplay, WHY send it to GL, btw? Send it to Spike Jonze instead, so you can give Charlie Kaufman a rest.
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Well, all variables placed aside (like why would GL ever get his hands on it or should it be sold to Spike Lee instead, et al), I would say sell it. So long as you don't mind it being butchered to hell and having any emotion or real acting or plot replaced by CG effects.
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The question is hypothetical - I know it would probably never happen. If it did somehow happen, I'd hold out to see if I could get someone else to direct with GL just producing it (I mean that's prettty much what he did for a little less than 20 years when he wasn't working on special effects and what not).
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.

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Bossk I said Spike Jonze.

Ok, being a hypothetical question... If I wrote a screenplay and GL was set to direct it, although he only directs his stuff but what the heck, I would say "yes". I mean, who gives a rats ass, just hand me the money.
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Bossk I said Spike Jonze.


Ah helenahandbasket. I read it too fast.
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I don't much care for GL at present, haven't bought the crappy new dvds, and most likely won't see Ep III. Given that, if GL were to give me a once-in-a-lifetime offer (presumably non-SW related), I would definitely go for it. Sure you might feel you are sacrificing some integrity, but why let a grudge limit your options in life, or your opportunity to do something special? I still wouldn't buy his dvds though.
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LOL.

I dunno. Are there any good directors that just randomly use screenplays? I thought it was the studios who decided all that...

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LOL.

I dunno. Are there any good directors that just randomly use screenplays? I thought it was the studios who decided all that...


Stanley Kubrick did. But he's dead.
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The last time a corpse directed a movie..

We got attack of the clones. And we all know how that turned out.

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I'd sell him the rights to my movie for a boatload of money, then, several years down the line after I have a bunch of other people direct more of my movies, I will go and buy back the rights and come up with an SE of the movie the way it was meant to be and declare that the original no longer exists.



Sorry, just hadda.
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bad bossk wap! slaps in the back of the head with a brick
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Oh, don't tell me you don't wish you thought of it first! Heh heh.
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Windexed, who you kidding? If you're on this site, and you bought the DVD box set, you're gonna see Episode III even if they change the title to the 'Muppets go to Tatooine', and Lucas decides that instead of finding someone to replace Dave Prowse he's just gonna use a CG vader.

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Hey, the muppets made some pretty good movies...I'd be willing to bet that "The Muppets Go To Tatooine" would be better than the Holiday Special (not that it would take much).

But it would never happen, Lucas would insist that all the muppets be done in CGI, and then they just wouldnt be the muppets anymore


And bossk is right, if Lucas made an offer like thattake the money, get rich and powerful, and then become Lucas. Make changes to movies...or you can go the opposite route and use that money and power to then produce a bunch of good movies
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bad Darth Simon wap! slaps Darth Simon in the back of the head with a brick

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Do I at least get my own brick?
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