Post #104837 by TikiGardener on Wed, Jul 28, 2004 9:36 PM

Am I correct in my recollection that Lucas had a cut of the first (EPIV) Star Wars that he had edited himself. He showed it to Spielberg and some others, and it was basically shit. So he threw up his hands and left it to his wife to edit it into what we've come to love.

And that this was taken even further in ESB, with him having minimal input ( but just enough to piss of the director to never work with Lucas again ). Then he gets his claws into EPIII, and it all goes to ewok shit.

The whole thing lost it in my opinion when he didn't have Anakin be the same age as Luke in the first movie. It could have been this whole cyclic epic. With enough room for some wicked permutations to have made it a solid block of movies.

I'm not holding my breath. If he writes it for 5 year olds instead of 15 year olds, its doomed.

That was what I thought worked for Star Wars. Lukes age made him identifiable with sci fi kids of his age, and made him be just old enough that the 10 and 12 year olds could wish to be him or see him as a slightly older brother figure.

But having Anakin be a 7 or 8 year old loses that completely.

Again not holding my breath.

TG
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