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Remake the OT?

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This is an idea to please everyone, from those who want the OT and the PT to have continuity and consistency, and those who want to preserve the originals.

Just have GL do re-makes of the OT with CG, Ewan McGregor and the benefits of modern film technology.

Might be interesting to see, and bring some nice consistency to the whole saga as well. And would keep the OT from being furthered altered.

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I would be afraid that he would disavow any knowledge of the O-OT whatsoever if he did this.
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It would be interesting to see but I don't think this will ever happen not in our lifetime anyway. GL has more or less said he's had it with Star Wars after ROTS.
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in 10 years, when CG has gone leaps and bounds forward, the additions are going to look so obviously out of place. Will he have his little computer slaves redo Jabba and the Dewbacks to keep up with technology? Look at Gollum vs. Jar Jar... in only a handful of years photorealism has come a long way.
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The real problem with adding CGI additions to the OT, is that the plates are over 25 years old. Therefore ANY addition is going to look out-of-place, If GL started from scrach and made a complete re-make of the OT, and thus would be able touse CG more, if would be more consistent with itself, instead of having CG from 2004 and Rubber/Anamtronics from 1977/80/3 which would not mesh together in a beleivable way. The biggest problem with the Han/Jabba scene, if that it is so incostent in visual quality, that it destroys the suspension of disbelief that would otherwise be present, due to the obvious visual differences. That, and that the eye-lines are completely FUBAR.

It really would be better for a complete re-make of the OT than to keep trying to clean up 26 year old film.

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And the SAD, SAD part is: GL might actually do it.
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And the SAD, SAD part is: GL might actually do it.


No he won't. Not directly anyway. He'll just slowly replace the current scenes with CGI versions. That way it's still the original trilogy (at least according to him anyway, we'll all know the truth)

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you know if 10 years down the line CGI was so cheap that it would take only like 30 mill to remake the trilogy with some good undiscovered talent i could see him doing it just reshooting and refilming the exact same movies.

the complaints i could see is ppl coycoting it cus the new luke doesnt look like the old luke. that complaint would really piss me off.
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And that brings me AGAIN to my theory, that George Lucas is slowly, very slowly, turning Star Wars into a romantic comedy starring Woody Allen and a CGI Shirley Temple.
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What about casting new actors to fill the boots of Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Alec Guinness, Billy Dee Williams, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse and all the rest?

I could possibly see Bernard Hill (King Theoden from the Lord of the Rings trilogy) doing Obi-Wan Kenobi and maybe Eric Bana as Han Solo, but the rest I have no idea.
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

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Hilarious? Yes, but mostly disturbing...
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Lets just hope Star Wars density doesn't pop us to that outcome...

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And that brings me AGAIN to my theory, that George Lucas is slowly, very slowly, turning Star Wars into a romantic comedy starring Woody Allen and a CGI Shirley Temple.


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I think Woody Allen would be hilarious ina Star Wars movie:

"Inform Lord vader that the Emperor has arrived."

"Uh, who, me? Uh no, no, you see, I uh... I don't have a good way with authorities, you see... I've seen him choke this guy before just by waving his hand, using that force trick thing, and I, uh, I'm afraid I might say something stupid to him, you know? Like 'nice helmet', and then he would try to force strangle me, you know? And my uh... my psychiatrist, he's from toshi station, you know, lot's of power convertors laying around... Well he told me I should avoid being choked to death by a magic cyborg, you know? Ok he didn't actually say that, but it was implicit, you know? So I uh... ok, if he tried to strangle me with the force, I would just jump to his hand, and try to hold his hand, you know? Well I mean, thank God Vader is not a spacerabbi, you know, I mean, he could try to perform some force-circunsisions, you know? So I uh... ok I will not tell Vader the Emperor has arrived, I'll just... you know, whisper to him... as a hint... I'll try to be mysterious, I'm sure he'll enjoy, uh, I mean he looks like someone who enjoys riddles, you know?"
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New versions of the OT! I can already see the new Han/Leia love scene:

Leia: Stop that.
Han: Stop what?
Leia: Stop that. My hands are dirty
Han: My hands are dirty too. What are you afraid of?
Leia: I hate sand. It's so rough and coarse and irratating....

You never know!

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Originally posted by: Trooperman
New versions of the OT! I can already see the new Han/Leia love scene:


Han: My hands are dirty too. What are you afraid of?
Leia: I hate sand. It's so rough and coarse and irratating....



Yeah... and It gets everywhere, darn it. Even on the Falcon.

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hell they might as well put Hayden in there with Han...

after all only he can pull off such a horrible line which would definatly tie in with the prequels...
"Never. I'll never turn to the darkside. You've failed your highness. I am a jedi, like my father before me."
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ESB has it's share of crappy lines.

"Two fighters against a stardestroyer?!"

"I dunno where you get your delusions, laserbrain."

"It is your DESTINY"

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You have a point there. But none of those lines (except maybe "Two fighters against a stardestroyer?!") approaches the absurdity inherent in so many of AOTC's lines. The script honestly feels like one of Lucas' rough drafts for Star Wars, as if he didn't have time to rewrite it. There are striking similarities; Lucas was very capable of the same types of corny lines and drawn-out plot, even in the 70's. But look what Star Wars became (after many, many drafts). I wish Lucas had started writing his prequel scripts about five years before he did; I think we would have a set of seriously different movies.

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Emperor Jar-Jar
“Back when we made Star Wars, we just couldn’t make Palpatine as evil as we intended. Now, thanks to the miracles of technology, it is finally possible. Finally, I’ve created the movies that I originally imagined.” -George Lucas on the 2007 Extra Extra Special HD-DVD Edition

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"two fighters against a stardestroyer" was a one liner by an extra...

not a lead character...
big difference there...

the dont see what was wrong with the other lines?
"Never. I'll never turn to the darkside. You've failed your highness. I am a jedi, like my father before me."
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Meh. I just thought laserbrain was one of the stupidest insults I've heard in a movie... ever. It sort of pulls you out of the experience, because lasers are nothing new the GFFAians; it seems like a very Earth-woman-trying-to-do-scifi-humor insult; which is what it is, but it shouldn't be so obvious.






And as for the Destiny.. That was just really cliche.

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All Star Wars is is cliches, but it pulls them together so well that it seems totally new.
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