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

[sonak]

Legacy of the Force sucked, though. A retread of the prequels plot basically, swapping Jacen Solo for Anakin and utterly ridiculous to boot. That's where the post-ROTJ EU jumped the shark for me.

 

[Saul]

Why does everybody hate Star Wars?

Cos it says TrekBBS?

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Smack!

 

[Admiral_Young]

All of this talk about a sequel trilogy has been reminding me of Storm Shadow (I think that was the person's name) who tried to pin off his fan fics as the real deal and claimed a friendship with Lucas lol.

 

[Sindatur]

All of this talk about a sequel trilogy has been reminding me of Storm Shadow (I think that was the person's name) who tried to pin off his fan fics as the real deal and claimed a friendship with Lucas lol.

It must be a bear trying to replicate Lucas-style dialogue

 

[I Grok Spock]

Of course, as the post-ROTJ EU novels have also proved, it begins to seem pretty tedious as these same characters are put in the wringer OVER AND OVER AGAIN with no conceivable end in sight and after awhile it kind of makes you glad that Lucas cut things off at ROTJ.

This. There's just no follow-up to Vader and the Emperor. Once you've killed off the ultimate villains, the rest are just also-rans.

 

[sonak]

All of this talk about a sequel trilogy has been reminding me of Storm Shadow (I think that was the person's name) who tried to pin off his fan fics as the real deal and claimed a friendship with Lucas lol.

Super Shadow, yeah. Actually his stuff's really funny if you view it as just a big joke.

 

[Hound of UIster]

Of course, as the post-ROTJ EU novels have also proved, it begins to seem pretty tedious as these same characters are put in the wringer OVER AND OVER AGAIN with no conceivable end in sight and after awhile it kind of makes you glad that Lucas cut things off at ROTJ.

This. There's just no follow-up to Vader and the Emperor. Once you've killed off the ultimate villains, the rest are just also-rans.

See Dark Empire where Palpatine comes back.

Or you do something like Legacy or Kotor set hundreds of years afterwards with new villains and new Sith.

 

[JediKnightButler]

Legacy of the Force sucked, though. A retread of the prequels plot basically, swapping Jacen Solo for Anakin and utterly ridiculous to boot. That's where the post-ROTJ EU jumped the shark for me.

I thought LOTF was overall pretty good. My only major criticism is that there were at least 3 of the books in the series that had what were essentially mini Boba Fett novellas squeezed into them.

 

[RandyS]

All of this talk about a sequel trilogy has been reminding me of Storm Shadow (I think that was the person's name) who tried to pin off his fan fics as the real deal and claimed a friendship with Lucas lol.

SuperShadow was his name.

At least, online.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Super Shadow! That's right. Storm Shadow is Cobra!

 

[Broccoli]

Legacy of the Force sucked, though. A retread of the prequels plot basically, swapping Jacen Solo for Anakin and utterly ridiculous to boot. That's where the post-ROTJ EU jumped the shark for me.

I thought LOTF was overall pretty good. My only major criticism is that there were at least 3 of the books in the series that had what were essentially mini Boba Fett novellas squeezed into them.

I generally liked LotF. I agree about the ham-fisted Boba Fett storyline(s), and I also thought the end was incredibly lackluster. They do a lot of set-up at the beginning of the series showing how the GA slips into civil war, and then all those problems are resolved off-screen in one chapter in the final book.

Then again, I suppose it is like the entire Star Wars movie saga in that we have all this political stuff happening at the beginning, but it ends with a personal duel and the political stuff ignored.

 

[Silvercrest]

Admiral Young wrote:
Super Shadow! That's right. Storm Shadow is a G.I. Joe!

I think Spirit would disagree with you.

 

[ReadyAndWilling]

what about the yuzhan vong in a new prequel?

 

[Admiral_Young]

What about them?

 

[Set Harth]

They would probably be in a sequel, not a prequel ( though I would rather see them left alone ). As far as I know their only connection to the prequel era was through contact with Vergere as described in Rogue Planet.

 

[stonester1]

I can't think of any space opera movies within the past couple decades at all off the top of my head -

J.J. Abrams did this one that was okay back in '09.

And... in the TV Series mentioned by Temis, she also mentions a Space Opera Theatrical film Firefly: Serenity.

There was also Pandorum. Well, I liked it.

And Wall-E...

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I think a better point of comparison is the Lord of the Rings films - not that Lucas fares any better here. They're both epic film trilogies set in exotic fantasy worlds which are big on spectacle - but I don't think I'm ruffling any feathers to suggest Jackson's films far outpaces Lucas when it comes to story and characterisation.

Well, of course, Jackson's films are adapted from source material that the original and masterful author spent decades of his life perfecting [from 1914 to 1949, if you count the development of what became the backstory]. Even though Jackson hacked it up, it had such a long way to fall that--well--it still came out superior to the Prequel Trilogy [in terms of story and characterization].

In other words, and in short, the lion's share of the credit on this score goes to Tolkien, not Jackson.

 

[Set Harth]

THANK YOU!

 

[Guartho]

Well, of course, Jackson's films are adapted from source material that the original and masterful author spent decades of his life perfecting [from 1914 to 1949, if you count the development of what became the backstory].

I guess he needed another few decades.