Re: Who would you like to write/direct new Star Wars film
I disagree. I think the prequels could have been magnificent, better even than the original trilogy, but they were utterly and completely botched.
The recollections of Gary Kurtz (the producer of the two indisputably great Star Wars films, Star Wars and Empire) are very instructive in this. The prequel trilogy was originally going to begin much further back in time and show the founding of the Jedi knights, and by extension likely the genesis of the Lords of the Sith, etc. That could have been an epic tale. Vader's rise and fall, told correctly, could have made for a single, powerful third film.
The sequels that are now being made pose a problem because originally, Return of the Jedi wasn't going to tie things up in such a neat little bow, but was going to have an Empire-like bittersweet ending that would have left open all sorts of storylines:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Seque..._recollections
The battle with the emperor wasn't originally going to occur until Ep. IX.
Originally posted by Captain Jack Sparrow
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The recollections of Gary Kurtz (the producer of the two indisputably great Star Wars films, Star Wars and Empire) are very instructive in this. The prequel trilogy was originally going to begin much further back in time and show the founding of the Jedi knights, and by extension likely the genesis of the Lords of the Sith, etc. That could have been an epic tale. Vader's rise and fall, told correctly, could have made for a single, powerful third film.
The sequels that are now being made pose a problem because originally, Return of the Jedi wasn't going to tie things up in such a neat little bow, but was going to have an Empire-like bittersweet ending that would have left open all sorts of storylines:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Seque..._recollections
The battle with the emperor wasn't originally going to occur until Ep. IX.
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