Star Wars: The final trilogy

[Rasputin_Vol]

It's coming soon.

If Tupac can be resurrected in hologram form, then Leia, Luke and Han can be recreated to tell the rest of the story after Episode XI...

[trevols81]

Dear god, no.

[MWR]

The first three were top notch, the last three were not. If this trend continues, the last three could be unwatchable.

[chatt-townVOL]

Horribly misleading thread

[VolsSportsFan]

No.

[MG1968]

Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, and Harrison Ford are all still alive, so no holograms would be needed.

Geritol and Depends might be needed, but no holograms.

[Rasputin_Vol]

Originally Posted by MG1968

Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, and Harrison Ford are all still alive, so no holograms would be needed.

Geritol and Depends might be needed, but no holograms.

Carrie Fisher's character would need to be touched up and enhanced. Have you seen her lately? Harrison Ford has kept himself up over the years. I have no idea what Mark Hamill is doing.

[VolsSportsFan]

If they made them in the next 10 years, they could use most of the original trilogy actors, but obviously the movies would need to be set 30+ years later.

But after the failure (not in terms of money) of the prequel trilogy, I doubt this will ever happen. On top of that, where would the story go? They'd have to create a new Sith threat/new Empire, and frankly I think anything they tried to do would feel like a retread.

[chatt-townVOL]

Originally Posted by VolsSportsFan

If they made them in the next 10 years, they could use most of the original trilogy actors, but obviously the movies would need to be set 30+ years later.

But after the failure (not in terms of money) of the prequel trilogy, I doubt this will ever happen. On top of that, where would the story go? They'd have to create a new Sith threat/new Empire, and frankly I think anything they tried to do would feel like a retread.

IIRC the books follow Anakin Solo (Han and Leia's son) and his struggle with allegiance and the force. I don't think a new empire spawns but I want to say the Sith returns maybe? I dunno just what I've heard people say.

[Orangesmokey]

Didn't Lucas orginally plan for there to be nine total movies? The three orginal releases, the three prequels and then three sequels? I thought I read somewhere that was his orginal plan. Then he got side tracked with other projects and after the prequels he decided not to make the three sequels because he said he would be too old by the time they were done. Could be completely making this up but I thought I read that somewhere at some point

[Volwark]

Lucas claims there was no more story after Jedi, that it was all about Anakin. But according to Gary Kurtz tho (take it fwiw; Kurtz is a blowhard), Lucas planned for nine movies. If I remember correctly, Luke was going to die at the end of Jedi, and the final 3 movies were going to be about Leia and the pitfalls of starting a fledgling government.

Edit: Seems I was a bit off, altho that might have been the plan in the development stages of Jedi. According to Kurtz, this was the original plan for nine movies...

TheForce.Net - Latest News - Gary Kurtz Reveals Original Plans for Episodes 1-9

EPISODE 1: Was to focus on the origins of the Jedi Knights and how they are initiated and trained

EPISODE 2: Introduction and development of Obi-Wan Kenobi
EPISODE 3: Introduction and life of Vader

EPISODE 4: There were seven different drafts of the film. At one point, they pursued buying the rights to Hidden Fortress because of the strong similarities. At one point, Luke was a female, Han was Luke's brother, Luke's father was the one in prison (interesting point for some debates) and the film featured 40 wookies

EPISODE 5: Once written, the screenplay of Empire is almost exactly what is seen on screen. The only cut scenes were those involving wampas in the rebel base (cut because of time and unsolved technical glitches) and about two minutes of Luke/Yoda Jedi training with no real dialog.

EPISODE 6: Leia was to be elected "Queen of her people" leaving her isolated. Han was to die. Luke confronted Vader and went on with his life alone. Leia was not to be Luke's sister.

EPISODE 7: Third trilogy was to focus on Luke's life as a Jedi, with very few details planned out.

EPISODE 8: Luke's sister (not Leia) appears from another part of the galaxy.

EPISODE 9: First appearance of the Emperor.

Also, this too:

An Interview with Gary Kurtz - Movies Feature at IGN

IGNFF: Well what were the original outlines for the prequels? Since they can be compared and contrasted now that the first one's out there, and the second one's soon to be out there. Were there major differences from what you saw, from the original outlines of prequel ideas?

KURTZ: Well a lot of the prequel ideas were very, very vague. It's really difficult to say. I can't remember much about that at all, except dealing with the Clone Wars and the formation of the Jedi Knights in the first place – that was supposed to be one of the keys of Episode I, was going to be how the Jedi Knights came to be. But all of those notes were abandoned completely. One of the reasons Jedi came out the way it did was because the story outline of how Jedi was going to be seemed to get tossed out, and one of the reasons I was really unhappy was the fact that all of the carefully constructed story structure of characters and things that we did in Empire was going to carry over into Jedi. The resolution of that film was going to be quite bittersweet, with Han Solo being killed, and the princess having to take over as queen of what remained of her people, leaving everybody else. In effect, Luke was left on his own. None of that happened, of course.

IGNFF: So it would have been less of a fairy-tale ending?

KURTZ: Much, much less. It would have been quite sad, and poignant and upbeat at the same time, because they would have won a battle. But the idea of another attack on another Death Star wasn't there at all ... it was a rehash of Star Wars, with better visual effects. And there were no Ewoks ... it was just entirely different. It was much more adult and straightforward, the story. This idea that the roller-coaster ride was all the audience was interested in, and the story doesn't have to be very adult or interesting, seemed to come up because of what happened with Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Indiana Jones films – and the fact that that seemed to make a lot of money and it didn't matter whether there was a really good story or not – that wasn't what this kind of film was about. We had serious differences about a lot of that.

[OrangeEmpire]

Roque Squadron

The chase for Imperial Admirals pressing the fight

[VolsSportsFan]

I had read that Harrison Ford said he told Lucas he wanted Solo to die in Jedi.

Had they gone with the original idea for Jedi, I can see how a 3rd trilogy would be needed. But seeing as how they went with the "fairytale" ending it seemed to kill that.

[Rasputin_Vol]

Originally Posted by VolsSportsFan

If they made them in the next 10 years, they could use most of the original trilogy actors, but obviously the movies would need to be set 30+ years later.

But after the failure (not in terms of money) of the prequel trilogy, I doubt this will ever happen. On top of that, where would the story go? They'd have to create a new Sith threat/new Empire, and frankly I think anything they tried to do would feel like a retread.

Wasn't there talk of Vader having a secret apprentice hidden from Palpatine?

[OrangeEmpire]

Originally Posted by Rasputin_Vol

Wasn't there talk of Vader having a secret apprentice hidden from Palpatine?

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