From: walrus@bessel.umd.edu (Grig Larson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Canon...the Official Word from Lucasfilm.
Date: 31 Aug 92 16:16:33 GMT
Organization: Punkadyne Industries(tm)

In article <mjenkins.715216499@cunews> mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes:
>In <1992Aug30.225635.16047@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> gfm@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (George Francis McBay) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Aug30.211810.29350@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> tlg4@po.CWRU.Edu (TJ Goldstein) writes:
>>>I DON'T THINK SO!!!  If this happens (all three movies coming out
>>>within 6 months of each other) I will ... I will ... I don't know,
>>>I'll so something extremely embarrassing and/or painful in public
>
>>	Better do it quick.  Lucas plans on filming the movies at the same,
>>ala Back to the Future II and III, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were
>>all released very closely together...I'd have guessed a year, but 6 months
>>is 'do-able'
>
>Lucas HAS TO film the movies all at once, otherwise (hate to put it
>this bluntly) he will grow old and die before they are filmed,
>nevermind released! 

That, and to avoid some style problems, like Luke's hair. :)

>I know the man's been busy...I know that he wanted a break between
>Jedi and the new series...but he'd better get moving, or no one is
>going to care!
>
>And...I'm not putting out a lot of hope that the new movies will be
>huge blockbusters like the first three. I rented the original series
>the other night, and was amazed: low body counts, little blood, no
>sex, virtually non-existant gratuitous violence. By today's standards
>these make Disney flicks look XXX! Sad to say, I tend to think the
>only way the new Star Wars films could be "successful" in today's
>market would be for more violence, more sex, less plot, more
>destruction, etc.. or, in other worlds, be everthing Star Wars was
>not.
>
>Just my thoughts.
>
>Michael

I disagree.  Ever see some of the other movies that came out in the 1970's?
I mean, yeah, as far as grossness and violence, we might have rivaled an
actual armageddon in movie f/x, but if a plot is good, and the acting strong,
it'll beat "Blood-sucking Alien Vampire Sluts of Vietnam" any day.
 
"Home Alone" was REAL successful, and just as much violence and sex as the
Star Wars saga.  I belive it's doable, and I hope if Lucas undertakes these 
movies, he'll avoid the "sure-fire gore attractors."
 
ObStarWarsRumor:

A friend of mine was one of the budget accountants of "T2" and said that they
had some interesting reactions from ILM during the shooting.
 
They had to get some stuff over with quick and that the studio would not be
available "for a year on one of the boss's projects."  The boss, I believe
is Mr. Lucas himself.  My friend is *sure* it's Star Wars related.  I told
him about the secrecy thing, and he said it is a lot easier to hide things
in Hollywood than you might think.

1: They could be doing shooting posing as other movies.  Not just the "Red
   Tails" rumor we had a while back, but actually a real movie already out
   now could have "hosted" it's studio for a few shots for another film.  So
   the new trilogy might be done in parts in T2's studio, for example, and
   if someone asked, you'd say "Oh, in there?  Yeah, T2 is shooting there."
2: If you are told by a studio NOT to leak out something, you had better
   do so, or, as the saying goes, "you will never work in this town again!"
   Getting jobs in studios is hard enough.  You need flawless refrences, 
   because no one in their right mind would rehire that guy who spilled the
   Klingon refrence for Star Trek 6 anymore.  That guy's probably sweeping
   a McDonald's now.
3: They kept the Manhattan Project a secret, didn't they?  And that had
   Richard Feynman (RIP) the loudmouth on the payroll! :)  If the bumbling
   Gov't can do it, so can a streamlined private corp.

But, my question is, "Why keep it a secret?"  How would you profit from a
surprise release?
 

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