Rasputin_Vol
"Slava Ukraina"
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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.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.
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.
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.
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.
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.