Episode 7, 8, And 9

[Jors_Dedon]

I know, I know, G. Lu says he not going to make those... BUT... When he was making 4, 5, and 6, he said that he wasn't going to make the prequel, but he did. And now, he says that he won't make the sequel trilogy.... but hopefully he will later. It's a slim chance but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I just hope (if he does make the sequel trilogy) that he shows Boba Fett as he gets out of the mouth of the Sarlacc. Like in the books.

[Justin]

I'd say that it's likely Lucas is either saying he's not going to make them in order to throw us off (he does that a lot), or he'll probably change his mind (which he also does a lot). Nobody knows for sure.

[Obi-Stu]

I for one hope he does (change his mind).

[Darth Vegas]

Nopthing happens, because they will not be made. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif

[Jedi D'oh]

I agree with Bond. The actors who played the OT characters have really expressed no interest in doing them again. Plus, i have heard Lucas say the books take care of the after Jedi stuff.

Also in an interview he said that there are many other TV and Movie projects he wants to work on. A SW trilogy takes about 10 years of his live to do and he doesnt want to die doing SW.

Sad to hear, but true.

[Aayla]

I also think, that there's not going to be episodes 7, 8 and 9. But we can still hope, that he does change his mind. Can't we?

[Lonesabre]

Well I gotta strong hunch that he'll write the scripts and executive produce and let some one else create his vision, a la TESB & ROTJ.

Please!

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[MegoHulk]

I hope he doesn't...and I really don't think he will anyways. It takes about 10 years to do these movies...although if he took some lessons from Peter Jackson it'd only take about 2 or 3. (Hint: LOTR) style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif

[Justin]

Mark Hamill said that he and Lucas talked about making them. Apparently he told Hamill that they'd be made around 2010. I bet he'd be able to get Carrie Fisher to do them too.

[Darth Drew]

<font style='width=80%; filter:glow(color=black)'>If they did make them Lucas would be half dead by the end of them. although I would will make them.</font>

[Mann]

I think that if they were made, they would have younger actors playngthe major roles. New trilogy, new heroes. Sure, Hamill Fisher and Ford would be there, but Newer actors would take on the roles of their children. I think that it could be the final confrontation between the Sith and the Jedi, with a New Sith Lord making an army of Sith (forget that Sith rule of 2) and the New Jedi would fight them in what would be the coolest Jedi battle ever!

[Blizzard]

When I saw Rick McCallum in person at Celebration 2 he said, "There are NO episodes 7-9!!!" George has other ideas he wants to create and Star Wars will be done in 2005.

And this thread is done, there are two other threads here on this subject.

[Mann]

did he really say "7-9" or "7 8 and 9"?

[Darth Vegas]

Originally posted by MegoHulk@Oct 11 2002, 11:06 AM
I hope he doesn't...and I really don't think he will anyways. It takes about 10 years to do these movies...although if he took some lessons from Peter Jackson it'd only take about 2 or 3. (Hint: LOTR) style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif
Megohulk, they have been making Lord of the RIngs since about 1993, the films may be coming out every year, but they took just as long to make.

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GL wanted to make AOTC and epipisode 3 at the same time, but ILM was not able to do that many effects shots at once, they were too busy with other projects to do that.

[Mann]

1993? NO! they took only 15 months to shoot, and they span a year to do all the editing and f/x. Where did you get 1993?

[Darth Vegas]

They started set building, and location scouting, and design work way back in '93, they talk about it on the DVD.


They also did new shots for both Two Towers, and are going to do more for Return of the King.

[Mann]

Yeah in 1993, they said, "hey wouldn't it be cool if we could do these books?" this was years after the idea actually got thought up besides, Jackson wasn't even around in the hollywood cirlce in 1993, he was doing Heavely creatures, which got him started. Why would he be given permission to do the movies then? I think they idea started later and the production is how long the film takes. Like If I were to say Gangs of New York was started 20 years ago when Scorcese was trying to make the film.

[Recon_Jerry]

I bet instead of a new trilogy, he would make ONE more.... one which is a bit more "continuation" of hunting down imperial remnents, and the aftermath etc etc.

[Mann]

Or just a star wars movie without the Episode part. Just a title.

BTW- Episode I should have stayed STAR WARS so the others would have made sense.

[Darth Vegas]

I can imagine more Star Wars films, and maybe even a t.v. series being made, but not anyhting to do with the main characters of the OT, nor in any way a continuation of events after ROTJ, that is the end of that saga, the Empire loses in the end, and that's it.

[Jedi D'oh]

You people seem to forget that this series of movies is based an Anakin Skywalker. His rise, fall, and redemption.

As we would all love to see more SW films, it couldn't happen because Lucas has said over and over that he has other things he wants to do. A new trilogy would take a long time and the man is hitting 60. He has said he doesn't want to die doing SW.

[StarWarsFan1]

What would they be about 7,8,9 ?

[MegoHulk]

The ghost of our hero Jek Porkins would go on a quest to find the recipe for the galaxys best omlette. I figure that has to be worth at least 3 movies right?

[Darth Vegas]

Originally posted by jedi-d'oh@Oct 14 2002, 05:18 AM
You people seem to forget that this series of movies is based an Anakin Skywalker. His rise, fall, and redemption.


Actually we don't Jedi-d'oh, we just realize that it is possible for other people to make 7,8,9 or whatever, and they do not have to have anything to do with the characters from the classic trilogy.

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[Jedi D'oh]

If that's the case, bond, then it would become like star trek and have a bunch of offshoot crap that just degrades the whole series. There is plenty of material out there about what happens after ROTJ in books and comics. If you (not YOU bond, but people in general) do not like EU then i think you are missing out on some great storytelling and not keeping an open mind ABOUT stroytelling.

Movies can only go so far and IF they happened to make more, it would have to be pretty spectacular in the story or else it's just someone's idea that may OR may not do SW justice.

Also bond, the saga as it is is based on Anakin. If they made 7-9, it would have to be a continuation of the same story and since it IS based on Anakin's life, fall, death, and redemption. Perhaps saying you forget that is a little hasty, but that is the reason it ends at 6. There's no more to tell about that story.

Make more if you wish, do not call it Episode 7 unless it continues the story of the characters we know and love.
Once again, and i've read this somewhere, Lucas states that if you want more, read the books. They are approved by LFL and continue the story very well.

Thank-you for listening. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif

[Darth Vegas]

If other authors can carry on the saga in books, then there is no reason that other directors can't make more movies.

It's a big galaxy plenty of other people, and other adventures, there is plenty of story to tell.

Episode's 1-6 is the story of the Skywalker's, whatever they make does not have to have a single thing to do with them.

Get a clue Jedi-d'oh. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif

[Jedi D'oh]

yes, but you see, the characters that have always been there are STILL there. you propse the movies should do nothing with the saga at large and focus upon things that average moviegoers know nothing about. That makes for a bad idea.

The story carried on in the books has congruency. a picture about the SW universe with characters no one has heard of, i think, would not go over as well.

Although, when Lucas kicks the proverbial bucket, people will probably be able to taint his universe with meandering, rambling stories that may or may not make sense.

[Jedi D'oh]

Look son, don't get all high and mighty with me.

neither you or i make movies or have a capability to do so, so the outcome is beyond our control. the opinion i state is nothing more than that. AN OPINION.

so in that case, episode 7-9 wont be as such because the story told is in 6 parts. if sny more movies are made, they would have to be stand alones, or a series of a different order.

[Ieluuka]

Just a point i'd like to make about the 7-9 trilogy...they would have to have Leia, Luke and Han in them right? Now, one thing that I do know for sure is that Harrison Ford said that he'd never act in another Star Wars movie. So that rules Han out. And anyway, by the time they stop fiddling around, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill will be to old to play the parts! So when George Lucas decided not to make the last three, I think he made the right decesion, even though I would like there to be three more. And if they do end up making them, and finding ways around the problems, I would like to see them make the Thrawn trilogy (Dark Force Rising, the Last Command etc and the other one that I've forgotten the name of) into movies, because they would be excellent. Has anyone read those books by the way?

[Frendon]

Heir to the Empire is the other one and yes those are the best in the EU, i think they should at least make some movies entirely in CGI that way the won't have the aging problems that they have now, and i know that by 2010 a CGI human being would look very real.

[Jedi D'oh]

That's true and possible. But the Thrawn triliogy would be best because Zahn captured the magic of it very well.

[Das_Funked]

If he does make a sequel trilogy, I pray to god he doesn't direct or write them. Episode One was one of the worst movies i saw that year, but the Ep Two was better, but still bad. He should let a an actual writer write it, and a good director direct it.

[Jedi D'oh]

If Star Wars was so poorly written and directed, why do you like it? ???

[Jors_Dedon]

Man, lot's of good theories out there. I still can't decide who to side with. Even though I know that 1-6 are about Anakin's rise, fall, and redemption, 4,5, and 6 didn't focus very much on Vader. He didn't have as much screen time as Luke, Leia, and Han so how can you decide that 4, 5 and 6 are about him. I think Hope, Empire, and Jedi were to be used as TRANSITIONS into Luke, Leia, and Han's characters. Still, I know that G.Lu is probably going to be like 90 by the time that those movies would be made, but we can all wish, right?

[Das_Funked]

I never said I didn't like SW...I do. I just think Episode One was a shocker.

And the reason why I like SW is because it is a good story, its got good action and its funny.

My point was that George Lucas should let other people write them and direct them like he did for Ep5-6. In my opinion, he doesn't get the best out of the actors whose performances are are no where near as good as they could be.

[Ieluuka]

Originally posted by Frendon@Oct 18 2002, 08:38 AM
Heir to the Empire is the other one and yes those are the best in the EU, i think they should at least make some movies entirely in CGI that way the won't have the aging problems that they have now, and i know that by 2010 a CGI human being would look very real.
Having it all in CGI would be a bit weird, like the Final Fantasy movie...not very good for Star Wars, but i spose it would be ok...I still think that real people are better

[Frendon]

of course real people are better, but what do you think would look better a 85 years old harrison ford or a cgi harrison ford? anyway i don't think they should be made like a sequel maybe just something for the fans and just release them in dvd, something like the ewoks movie.

[MXCABRINI]

Luke Skywalker Falls in the DARK SIDE

[James T. Skywalker]

Originally posted by MXCABRINI@Oct 30 2002, 02:18 PM
Luke Skywalker Falls in the DARK SIDE
It's already happened in the Expanded Universe.

~JTS

[James T. Skywalker]

Here's a summary of what, from statements made by George Lucas before he confirmed the nixing of Episode VII-IX, the plot of the Sequel Trilogy would have been, and when it would have taken place:

32 - 203 ASW4
With the Galactic Civil War at an end and the majority of its aftershock battles finished, the New Republic (referred to more as the Republic now, just as the Old Republic was before the Civil War) is continuing to rebuild the glorious civilization that once spread across the galaxy. Luke Skywalker is now an aged Jedi Master, heading up a new legion of Jedi Knights as they once again begin to more prominently become "the guardians of peace and justice" in the Republic. A new threat is raised, a menace carried over from a period about six decades earlier, as a figure from Episode III returns after being frozen for the intervening years. In the ensuing events, Luke's own son, Ben, begins to fall to the Dark Side and in a twist of when it was father against son for the redemption of the father (when Vader and Luke battled aboard the Death Star II), it is now father against son for the redemption of the son. Luke manages to save Ben from the Dark Side, and the new threat is defeated.

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That's what Nathan Butler has gleaned from Lucas's statements regarding the possible Sequel Trilogy between 1983 and 1997/1999 (when he officially said there will be no Episodes VII-IX). Obviously, it won't be as long as the dating above says, but it will take place sometime after 32 ASW4. The info from Lucas only said that Luke's son would turn to the Dark Side, and at that point, Luke didn't have a son. Nathan has since added Ben Skywalker into the summary as Ben was born during the New Jedi Order, and that would fit with the possible Sequel Trilogy storyline.

Just thought I'd add that for discussion.

~James T. Skywalker

[Jors_Dedon]

Hey, I just thought (oh my gosh it's a miracle!) that instead of G.Lu doing the last three (because of the age of the Luke, Leia, and Han) maybe he could do the Stories that don't involve Luke, Leia, and Han... like the Bounty Hunter Wars... or the Rogue Squadron "quadrilogy" (or whatever it's supposed to be called), or maybe start doing my personal fave The Wraith Squadron. Who would play Face?

[Shoma Barad]

I would love there to be more movies. But they wont happen in Lucas' lifetime. If they happen after he croaks, it wil be some Fanboy-millionaire who makes it, and we'll get 8 hours of Boba Fett, and a whole freakin ARMY of Boba Fetts fighting an Army of Darth Vaders and Yoda's...

I'd like to see a Rogue Squadron T.V Series.. probably done with CGI (with Denis Lawson as the voice of Wedge..! lol) Or possibly something else set outside the 'official continuity', kinda like the Knights of the old republic game which will be out next year.

But I don't think the 'Saga' should, or wil be continued. Stand-alone movies wouldn't work (people got confused enough by TPM being a prequel.. lol)

Still, I don't think people should stop speculating about what COULD be done... but I think the debate of "Will they or won't they" should stop- McCallum, Lucas and the actors have ALL answered that question- they won't. So lets have some fun in this thread and pretend we're all writers, but lets stop beating a long-dead horse.

~~Shoma

[Lord Laviathan]

Well then who says Lucas has to continue the saga Timothy Zahn's trilogy would make great movies since Zahn is a better writer plus there would be no wholes in the story which Lucas is notorious for. Many people would like to see more movies realized,me for one. Just because Lucas has no more inspiration doesnt mean ohh its all over hes the only one that can do it, im sorry Lucas is great and i love the Saga but select few can and would do well in his footsteps. Let it not end because the desire of one.

[Seanakin]

Much as I wouldn't mind giving someone else the chance to take the SW franchise and make a good movie for a most refreshing change, the "one" to whom you refer was also the one who conceived of the whole story when nobody would take him seriously, worked tirelessly against the Hollywood establishment to bring about its mere creation, and fought tooth and nail to ensure it was made as he saw it fit. In other words, he earned the right to make that call, and his call is, after Episode III, no more. End of story, as it were.