Rule #5: always keep in mind that the original Star Wars trilogy was little more than the largest collection of Sword & Sorcery cliches ever put together, and that the only reason you liked it was that you were 10 years old at the time (and the special effects were 15 years ahead of their time).
J.J., don’t try to be clever. Just buy the most popular S&S books of the last 20 years and start stealing ideas like crazy. Just add enough lasers and spaceships so you can pretend it’s sci-fi instead of low-brow fantasy and you’ll make the fans happy. Also remember to give new characters really stupid names so the fans will feel at home.
Although most of them kinda phoned it in, thinking they were shooting a piece of crap for children. Of course, one could argue that a great actor phoning it in is still good enough if the movie is also good.
Yup.
Rule #5: always keep in mind that the original Star Wars trilogy was little more than the largest collection of Sword & Sorcery cliches ever put together, and that the only reason you liked it was that you were 10 years old at the time (and the special effects were 15 years ahead of their time).
J.J., don’t try to be clever. Just buy the most popular S&S books of the last 20 years and start stealing ideas like crazy. Just add enough lasers and spaceships so you can pretend it’s sci-fi instead of low-brow fantasy and you’ll make the fans happy. Also remember to give new characters really stupid names so the fans will feel at home.
Don’t forget that it had some awesome actors as well.
And a damn fine soundtrack by John Williams.
And let’s not forget the awesome sound effects.
Although most of them kinda phoned it in, thinking they were shooting a piece of crap for children. Of course, one could argue that a great actor phoning it in is still good enough if the movie is also good.
I’m not totally sure I completely agree with the “frontiers” point. I wouldn’t mind a 1313 setting.
And if he follows all these rules, the fanboys will call him an unoriginal plagiarist.
This is perhaps the worst way to go about making a star wars.
It’s not a Western, it’s sad.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: yet another idiot butthurt because the prequels didn’t live up to downright INSANE expectations.
I enjoyed the prequels. They were no Citizen Kane, but neither was the original trilogy.
you are wrong.
If Lucas would have produced the proper movies, it would have been awsome.
the Han Solo Trilogy by AC Crispin would have sold very well, and no been crap, or screwed up the time line.
What should have been made is The Thrawn trilogy.