xhonzi

This, folks, is one reason to use a telephoto lens when you take portraits.

Why for Sans Wars*?  I really liked it and C3PX played at least 10 minutes of it before he gave up.

Seriously, though... I really liked it.

Did you get the extended ending on ODST?  Even if you're not the hardcore type to replay it on the hardest settings, you oughtta youtube the ending.  It's quite a bit different than the standard one.

Let me know how Halo 4 is.

*Is it because they don't make a one great?  Yoda was full of crap.

I guess I'm pretty excited by Halo 4.  I'm not getting it tonight and might just let someone get it for me for Christmas (ain't I magnanimous?)  I guess I was a lot more hyped for Halo 3 since I pre-ordered that one...  but mostly I think it's due to my huge backlog (Which I haven't posted here in sometime) that I can't validate spending $60 on a new game when I have so many I already can't play for free.

Bump

Spielberg would be too easy for George to control.

Indy4?

DuracellEnergizer said:

If a PT reboot were to be made, I'd want it to take the pre-1999 EU into account and stay faithful to it (the clones would be the enemies, Jedi would have children and marry, lightsabers would come in a large range of colours, etc.). Timothy Zahn and Tom Veitch would serve as creative consultants.

I'm thinking of kidnapping Zahn and Veitch and forcing them to show me their story bibles of all of the assumptions they made about the prequel timeframe.

Anyone in?  Who can drive the big black van?

Oldfan said:

1990osu said:

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)."

 

I'm 100% certain that any new films will be new stories, not from any existing books. People can just get that idea of their minds - they have already made this pretty obvious.

 

If they're serious about bowing in 2015, they'll retool an existing story AND THEY'LL LIKE IT!

Alexrd said:

Bingowings said:

You equated financial gain with artistic merit

No, I didn't. I merely said they were successful.

Can we agree that they were mildly successful and masterfully terrible, then?

Jack Sparrow, mighty pirate.

Scintillating!

NeverarGreat said:

xhonzi said:

NeverarGreat said:

mfastx said:

I'd like to see them tie in to the originals and even the prequels in some ways.  Like for example take a little something from a few of the films and incorporate it somehow.  I hope it doesn't end up like a complete unrelated trilogy. 

This goes back to the Trilogy of Trilogies idea, where the OT is a microcosm of the larger story, a fractal if you like. If you consider that episode 5 is to 4 and 6 as the OT is to the prequel and sequel trilogies, then you can come to some interesting conclusions.

For example: Episodes 4 and 6 had the Death Star, a unique and awe inspiring machination of the villains, which is only briefly mentioned in Empire. So if you extrapolate that idea to the 3 trilogies, you can have a huge plot structure repeated in the first and third trilogies that was only mentioned in the OT (The clone wars comes to mind). Of course, it doesn't have to be that, it should just be something that makes sense and implies a final trilogy to complete the story.

Take it to the 3 act structure thread! 

There is such a thread?

The reason that I suggest a trilogy of trilogies is because it seems like the OT doesn't really end in a satisfactory manner if the prequels are taken into account. Heck, don't take my word for it; Lucas apparently thought so too. Why else would he put in an inexplicable montage of celebration from across the galaxy? ROTJ ended well for a trilogy. However, I don't think it really holds up as the end of a six part saga.

As for having three acts, I suppose you could say that. Although it doesn't need to have three acts, three is the socially accepted number for a movie series to feel complete. It's a cultural peculiarity, but a persistent one.

 Heaven knows I've started several.  Try this: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Original-Trilogy-Times-Chart/post/412779/#TopicPost412779 and this: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Act-Breaks/topic/11489/page/1/ though it feels like I'm missing one or two.

Ah, here's this one: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/A-New-Hope-Trading-on-Promises-or-Trailer-for-the-SW-Universe/topic/11379/ though I think I followed up on that one more somewhere else... perhaps it's in one of the other threads I just posted.

And I guess it's altogether possible I've never posted my extensive thoughts on trilogies as macro-three act structure and how then a trilogy of trilogies would really fascinate me as mega-three-act-structure.

CP3S said:

Thanks George, I kind of love you again.

 

 *sob*

NeverarGreat said:

mfastx said:

I'd like to see them tie in to the originals and even the prequels in some ways.  Like for example take a little something from a few of the films and incorporate it somehow.  I hope it doesn't end up like a complete unrelated trilogy. 

This goes back to the Trilogy of Trilogies idea, where the OT is a microcosm of the larger story, a fractal if you like. If you consider that episode 5 is to 4 and 6 as the OT is to the prequel and sequel trilogies, then you can come to some interesting conclusions.

For example: Episodes 4 and 6 had the Death Star, a unique and awe inspiring machination of the villains, which is only briefly mentioned in Empire. So if you extrapolate that idea to the 3 trilogies, you can have a huge plot structure repeated in the first and third trilogies that was only mentioned in the OT (The clone wars comes to mind). Of course, it doesn't have to be that, it should just be something that makes sense and implies a final trilogy to complete the story.

Take it to the 3 act structure thread! 

Alexrd said:

1990osu said:

What was once a joke could now easily become reality.

How and why? The prequels were a success, despite the vocal bashing of a few million. There is simply no reason to reboot them. Same with the originals.

Oh, Alexrd... one of these days you will realize that almost everybody disagrees with you.

In regards to the PT, at least.

Until then, my friend!

Post that was meant to go in at #6, but was almost lost to the internets:

I'm not talking about remaking anything (certainly not the originals), I'm talking about Mulliganning the prequels.

Call it a "what if" if you'd like (or a Star Wars Infinities storyline) but make something good that's an alternative for people that have taste.

And Bingo, only soft reboots use time travel...

Oh I dearly hope someone creates a story that exists with complete, unbridled, atheism torwards the prequels...

Which is half the problem with the EU anymore... that they bring in PT crap into otherwise decent post OT storylines.  (The other half of the problem, if you're wondering, is that it's mostly terrible)

Something that works with the prequels or not would probably be the best decision... something that doesn't contradict the PT or make it mandatory viewing or even recall it for those of us for which recalling it is a painful, to be avoided at all costs, experience.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I'd like to see the Tales of the Jedi comics adapted for the screen, but only if they stay faithful to the comics, ie. no prequelisms, no "lightening up" the subject matter for the PG-or-lower crowd, etc. Knowing Disney, though, it'd be pointless to give my hopes up. Plus they'd go as cookie-cutter as possible and shoot it with a scrubbed digital look; TOTJ can only work properly if shot on film - preferably in an '80s style - with grain present.

Yes, I think there's a lot of good material in Tales of the Jedi, though I think it's more fit for an epic TV show than a series of movies... (probably due to the similarity in Comic Arcs and TV Season Arcs) but that series, though Veitch started it strong, went to carp pretty quickly once KJA took it over.  They would have to rewrite from the midpoint to the end, if they wanted it to be good.

Bingowings said:

It might be more interesting to see how winning a war isn't the happy ever after of myth.

The Old Republic has already been shown to be not the Utopia old Ben made it out to be so it would be interesting if the future the Rebels fought for didn't turn out to be so rosy either. 

That was my favourite part of re-reading Zahn a couple of years ago.  It's perhaps more in the subtext, but I think the massive all controlling form of Government that the Empire was would be really hard to replace with something more "free" without total chaos coming in the wake.  Now, it's certainly less sexy than a rebellion, but it takes better men (and women and aliens) to remake the new government and satisfy the needs of the recently oppressed without somehow repeating the sins of the Empire.

However, I'm not sure it makes for good movie making.  :(

Why not? It's what I would do...

Anchorhead said:

That said; I had to laugh when I logged on to Facebook yesterday and there was a post by Zahn saying Disney hasn't contacted him about the Thrawn Trilogy, but he would hop on a plane immediately if they wanted to talk.  Said he'd charter one personally if he had to.  ;-)

 Anchorhead... are you Tim Zahn's friend on facebook?

Drunken Jedi Master said:

I, for one, welcome our new Disney overlords.

 Oh, you...

Oldfan, looks like you and I are on the same page...

nightstalkerpoet said:

New interview with Lucas biographer:

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/star-wars-7-8-and-9-are-most-exciting-says-george-lucas-biographer-exclusive-63006

...Lucas was unlikely to turn to Mark Hamill, who played Luke in the original but whose performance left the director dissatisfied.

Because Lucas knows so much about quality acting and which actors are capable of it?

Alexrd said:

That's why I don't like the PT and worry about Lucas's presence. Lucas appears to not understand Star Wars. It's like a bunch of wild ideas materialized.

 Fixed?