Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and John Williams are back and Luke has a Jedi Academy where he trains Jedi in a more serious, character-driven script.
It sure looks like they're off on the right foot!
batmatt92 said:
Hey all, I never post here but I'm a big-time lurker.
Anyway, something I thought you all would find interesting- I'm a college student studying film and today my screenwriting professor (who works in the industry) told us he got a meeting with Disney to pitch for Episode VII. He said there were only a few parameters given, including:
Luke Skywalker must be included, but not necessarily anyone else from the existing films, and he must be age-appropriate for Hamill, who is 100% for sure in the movie.
Skywalker must have a new "Jedi Academy" that he has founded and oversees.
Disney/Lucasfilm are looking for a "dark" story. My professor said they're seeking out writers who have experience along those lines. They don't seem to care about experience with big movies, they just want writers who can do good characters with a serious tone.
Other than that, it sounds like the potential writers have free reign to come up with whatever they want. Apparently Skywalker doesn't even have to be the main focus, as my professor's idea centers on a new protagonist and Skywalker appears more as a supporting character.
His meeting is sometime within the next week or two I think. If he doesn't get the gig I can tell you what his idea was. :D
^^Wow. That is EXTREMELY interesting. Thank you for that insider info.
In addition, here is a link I posted in another thread that shows the composer for Episode 7 might be John Williams.
John Williams is asked about Episode 7:
^^Lucas did say it again in 2007 though (over 20 years later):
http://blog.moviefone.com/2007/02/10/george-lucas-empire-strikes-back-was-the-worst-star-wars-film/
Just to emphasize how much this is, this is like writing a million-dollar check 4000 times.
I do hope they use the older actors because it breaks the current Hollywood trend of not casting anybody over 30. It would make it more interesting.
You could even work the aging into the script, like "Wrath of Khan."
Why not Mark Hamill as Luke? That would be the most consistent with the OT.
I would like to see Steven Spielberg or Brad Bird. The others like Christopher Nolan don't have the sensibility IMO.
Spaced Ranger said:
http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2012/02/10/george-lucas-confirms-it-the-star-wars-we-loved-never-existed/
In this link, it says George Lucas originally referred to Star Wars as a "space western."
This completely explains the scene with Han shooting Greedo under the table. It's straight out of a "Gunsmoke" episode.
skyjedi2005 said:
I feel like i have slipped through some portal into an alternate universe or the twilight zone.
I know. We were all in shock.
Star Wars is such a big part of what made me who I am, and my whole life I thought it was Episodes 1-6. So this was really disorienting- my whole frame of reference is gone.
My grandfather passed away from Alzheimer's, but he was a big Star Wars Trilogy fan. Would have been in his 80s were he still alive.
In the months before Disney announced it would acquire "Star Wars" studio Lucasfilm, several different screenwriters paid visits to Lucasfilm's Northern California compound to pitch George Lucas and his co-chair Kathleen Kennedy their ideas for the new live-action installment, the series' seventh, according to a person familiar with the talks who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to talk about them. The screenwriters were pitching ideas for a new story, not ones adapted from existing "Star Wars" books.
The person did not reveal the identities of the people who had met with Lucas and Kennedy but said they were well-known screenwriters with experience creating big-budget Hollywood films. A spokeswoman for Lucasfilm on Wednesday did not return a call seeking comment.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-1101-star-wars-films-20121101,0,1009100.story
Gawker's Magary compared his love for the franchise to "rooting for a sports team that never wins anything (or more accurately, a sports team that won three titles 30 years ago and hasn't won a game since)."
Bingowings said:
The problem with ROTJ is that it's all tying up and no story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T_L3RMxa3k
Case closed. Not a movie that needs to be remade, or ever should be remade.
^^ I heartily disagree with you, sir.
He did give us the original Star Wars Trilogy. I disagree with people now saying that it was his crew that made them good. Lucas was very much behind the original Star Wars and he gave the world a great gift.
Johannus said:
To be honest I'm all for that. I don't mean to just be sounding contraversial but as it stands we have the OT, which I think is great, but I think E6 has big problems and could have been massively better, so I think there is room for improvement there.
And most importantly, they could try to make episodes 1, 2, 3, and 6 a lot better (again only my personal opinion here).
I respect your opinion, but I can't agree. To me, Return of the Jedi is every bit as classic as the other two and forms the masterpiece called "The Original Star Wars Trilogy."
Jabba the Hutt, the speeder bike chase, the ewoks triumphing over machinery, and the throne room scene especially has scenes that beat anything from "Star Wars" and "Empire" (see the part where Luke unleashes his inner dark side). So much symbolism, so much atmosphere, and a hugely classic soundtrack. It does not need remaking!
It's not like people would stop watching the old prequels. The prequels have several really great components:Duel of the Fates/Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine/Liam Neeson/Christopher Lee
It would just be interesting to get a take on it that matched more closely with the OT, even if it was lower budget than the old prequels.
What was once a joke could now easily become reality. What would you like to see? I'll start:
-More emphasis on the actual clone wars
-Obi-Wan trains Anakin and they are good friends. Anakin is in his 30s played by an Al Pacino or Robert DeNiro type, not a bratty teenager
-More real locations, less CGI
-No Jar-Jar
-No midichlorians
"7 - 8 - 9 was written in 1975. Story is very dark."
This seems like better and better news the more I think about it.
With so many Star Wars movies going to be made (with different directors), eventually we're going to get another one that's really, really good.
lth said:
They really ought to film the Thrawn trilogy by Tim Zahn
Everybody on the internet is saying this.
Luke would make a good sith now that he is older.
Episode 13-15: Luke's grandson's nephew turns to the dark side. His wife realizes that they are cousins 5 times removed.
Episode 10-12. Luke's son turns to the dark side. His grandson must turn him back.
Episode 7-9: Luke chooses the dark side and HIS son must save him.