GEORGE LUCAS: What are his plans for the third trilogy?

[Admiral_Young]

There were rumours as recent as prior to Celebration V that Lucas was going to announce a New Jedi Order style animated series with Hamill, Fisher, and Ford reprising their roles. This was even brought up on the board. Instead the announcement turned out to be Seth Green's upcoming comedy series.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Broc...you forgot Hayden Christisan being in the Darth Vader costume and Christophe Walz playing Grand Admiral Thrawn. Tim Zahn is writing the script.

Coincidentally, I was thinking earlier this week about casting Thrawn. (In a roundabout way, it was because of Sony's Foundation film. I was trying to think of someone who would make a good Bel Riose, who should be a Thrawn-type, then I realized that I would love it if Zahn wrote a Foundation novel, and that led me to casting Thrawn. Like I said, roundabout.)

Thrawn has to be a British actor, since all the major Imperials are British -- Peter Cushing, Julian Glover.

I decided that, if I were casting Thrawn today, John Simm would be the way I'd go. He has the dramatic chops, he has the gravitas, he has the intensity. Second choice would be Rufus Sewell.

 

[Broccoli]

NATHAN FILLION AS GRAND ADMIRAL THRAWN!!!!!11!!!one!!!!!

The Darth Vader costume got cooked up in Episode VI.

He got a new one with racing stripes!

LUCA$$ CA$H MONEY FAT-A$$ will find a way to make it happen.

That explains the prequels.

 

[Admiral_Young]

^LOL.

 

[sojourner]

Cast Thrawn? Cillian Murphy.

 

[Admiral_Young]

^ Oh I like that. I like that a lot.

 

[Whofan]

For some reason I've always seen ex-Bonds Timothy Dalton or Pierce Brosnan as Thrawn. Some of the casting polls have often used Jeremy Irons though. Oodly enough the Outbound Flight cover pic of Thrawn looks a lot like Jim Caviezel.

For Palleon I think Sam Elliot would be a good match.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I see the animation in the Tie Fighter PC video game series as Thrawn.

 

[TremblingBluStar]

Cast Thrawn? Cillian Murphy.

Or this guy:

Let me see. White face paint... red eyes... goofy costume... you'd have to fight Johnny Depp off with a stick to prevent him from playing the part!

 

[ATimson]

I decided that, if I were casting Thrawn today, John Simm would be the way I'd go. He has the dramatic chops, he has the gravitas, he has the intensity.

Hopefully they'd send Life on Mars to the casting directors, not Doctor Who because they don't exactly show off the gravitas all that well.

 

[Caliburn24]

I'd just bring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman over from Sherlock to play Thrawn and Pellaeon. They have that sort of frosty Britishness to play Imperials and work well together in that sort of Holmes/Watson dynamic which Thrawn/Pellaeon echoes.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Cast Thrawn? Cillian Murphy.

Or this guy:

The chick who played Gozer hasn't done anything in a while. Let's throw her a bone.

On a more serious note, I always thought Kevin Spacey would make a great Thrawn. Michael Emerson as well, gravitas-wise, though he doesn't really look the part.

 

[Whofan]

Technically the closest thing we got to a post-ROTJ 'movie' were the Jedi Knight video game cutscenes. With their all-cg backgrounds, laughable dialogue and horrendous acting, they actually kind of foreshadowed what was to come...


(On a side note, it's interesting that they tied the whole Valley of the Jedi concept with the extinction of the Sith in eventual expanded universe works).

 

[Set Harth]

The alleged extinction of the Sith.

 

[TremblingBluStar]

Technically the closest thing we got to a post-ROTJ 'movie' were the Jedi Knight video game cutscenes. With their all-cg backgrounds, laughable dialogue and horrendous acting, they actually kind of foreshadowed what was to come...

Yeah, but that was the day and age when video game cut scenes could have a $100 budget, and people would love them because seeing full motion video on a PC or console was still a novelty.

I thought the guy who played Katarn did a good job.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

you'd have to fight Johnny Depp off with a stick to prevent him from playing the part!

Johnny Depp in a Star Wars movie. That's either the best idea of all time, or the worst.

 

[PsychoPere]

That would be the latter option. Definitely the latter.

 

[Lookingglassman]

I remember reading a Time or Newsweek article right after Star Wars came out where (I think) he said he was going to make 9 of these movies and I was disappointed when I found out he wasnt.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I like to think that Lucas had enough initial ideas for nine (or even more) movies, but once he started making them, some ideas were changed, condensed, or even just simply dropped. These six films may indeed be the final product of Lucas' story as a result.

 

[Admiral_Young]

The subject of the nine films is the topic discussed in the book The Secret History of Star Wars which is about Lucas' constant revisionism.