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Post by Derrick on Sept 30, 2010 18:36:33 GMT -5
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Post by tombitd on Sept 30, 2010 20:16:54 GMT -5
No it should not. I have enough problems dealing with the rabid fans of the original version to begin with. |
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Post by HulkSmashNow on Oct 1, 2010 5:03:01 GMT -5
I definitely think that it shouldn't be, but perhaps the voluminous, overwrought Expanded Universe should be. With "The Clone Wars" airing every week, something from the EU usually get contradicted or outright destroyed. Maybe just releasing one book a year or twice a year would serve better...but I doubt Lucasfilm would like that at all.
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Post by james on Oct 1, 2010 6:35:13 GMT -5
No. Please, just no.
Well, maybe if Genndy Tartakovsky animated a Star Wars reboot...
You know what, it's not worth it. So, just no.
James
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Post by james on Oct 1, 2010 6:36:25 GMT -5
I like Scott Lynch's response:
"No. Emphatically, categorically, absolutely and in all conceivable flavors of no, NO. Hell no. Star Wars is a delicious fluke, a naive and energetic pastiche-o-rama written by a guy who didn't realize he really couldn't write, but with verve and passion and warmly human characters that made up for it. It was a cultural and artistic landmark and should be allowed to keep its full period charm. . . no more CGI updates, no more scribbling over the original work of actors and puppeteers and model-makers from the 1970s, and certainly no remake, at least not until I'm long dead and thus cured of giving a damn.
Anyone dreaming of remaking this thing should try just writing their own damned flashy super-duper space opera. Everything in Star Wars is straight out of common stock; it's pastiche after pastiche and homage after homage, and all of those elements are fair game to play with from now until the ending of the world. Hire someone who can actually write, produce a script actually worth filming, and shoot it under the direction of someone who loves the themes and trappings of pulpy science fantasy. It'd be like planting a money tree. But will anyone do this? Of course not. They'll remake The Last Starfighter as a vehicle for Justin Bieber or something. God save me, I'm 32 and I'm already manning the window, ready to shout at kids to get off my lawn. Well, anyone thinking of remaking Star Wars is definitely standing on my lawn."
James
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Post by tombitd on Oct 1, 2010 7:12:19 GMT -5
This is probably my biggest fear, James--that any Star Wars reboot will take its cues from the J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot that will cheerfully discard all of the subtext and texture in the original to give us a mishmosh of loud, shouty, screamy, dumb action and 'humorous' allusions to the original. And given that Star Wars was less nuanced than Trek (I don't care how much you keep blabbing about Joseph Campbell; there t'aint much there. Hell, before Lucas went back to the first trilogy, those movies are as uncomplicated as, to quote Derrick, a ham and cheese sandwich), I shudder to think what a dumbed down SW would be...
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Post by stevejrogers on Nov 7, 2010 19:12:01 GMT -5
Should Star Wars be rebooted?
First of all, can't the prequels and everything tied into them kind of, sort of be considered a "reboot" since there are a couple of...well, maybe retcons is too strong of a word, but explanations that are almost as bad as...oh say Barry Allen getting his desire to be a cop from his mother being murdered because modern story telling demands a superhero with a tragic past.
And second, ummmm, I think this sums it up nicely
OE: No image linking here? Ah well, I was trying to post Vader from Revenge of The Sith doing that "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" when learning of Padme's demise.
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Post by Dino on Nov 15, 2010 2:48:34 GMT -5
Honestly? I couldn't care less one way or the other. I was really passionate about Star Wars when I was thirteen, around the time the Special Edition came out. And now, I can probably go the rest of my life without ever watching those movies again and be perfectly content.
After the horrible prequels, I doubt it's possible to do any further damage to the series. Hell, maybe they'll get someone better than Lucas to write and direct it (which, let's face it, is not hard to do).
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Post by Derrick on Nov 15, 2010 12:02:45 GMT -5
Honestly? I couldn't care less one way or the other. I was really passionate about Star Wars when I was thirteen, around the time the Special Edition came out. And now, I can probably go the rest of my life without ever watching those movies again and be perfectly content. After the horrible prequels, I doubt it's possible to do any further damage to the series. Hell, maybe they'll get someone better than Lucas to write and direct it (which, let's face it, is not hard to do). There's a good reason why THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK is the best of the six STAR WARS movies: Lucas turned over the writing of the screenplay and the direction to other, better hands. Much as I love STAR WARS, I'll be the first to admit that George Lucas is not a good writer or director. And he himself has said in interviews that he hates to write. And he isn't the most actor friendly director. Both Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher have said that most of the time George Lucas gave direction through his assistant directors. Mark Hamill has said that as a young, newbie actor he was constantly frustrated by Lucas seemingly lack of interest in his actors. A few years back I read a article about Lucas and a Skywalker Ranch employee said that part of the reason why Lucas puts so much time and money into developing CGI technology is that he'd like to do movies without human actors at all. My beef with Lucas is that he's a selfish guy. With the resources of Lucasfilm he could easily do a new STAR WARS movie every two years of so, written by others and directed by others. Can you imagine what a Guillermo Del Toro or Christopher Nolan directed STAR WARS would be like? But Lucas doesn't want to do that. he'd rather keep tweaking and reissuing the same six movies over and over again. |
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