A couple of excellent articles have been posted in the last couple of days regarding the 40th anniversary of Industrial Light and Magic and Kathleen Kennedy’s approach to making the new Star Wars movies. Both are worth reading in full, but here I want to focus on the comments about the prequel trilogy. Kennedy brings…
There’s been a lot of consternation among some fans as to George Lucas’ lack of involvement in the new movies, particularly The Force Awakens. Sure, he wrote the initial treatments for Episodes VII-IX, but in January he very pointedly said the following: The ones that I sold to Disney, they came up to the decision…
Has George Lucas seen the Force Awakens teaser? That bastion of journalistic integrity, the New York Post, quoted Lucas on the matter of the teaser thusly: I don’t know anything about it. I haven’t seen it yet… Because it’s not in the movie theater. I like going to the movies and watching the whole thing there. I…
The question that everyone’s still asking is why was Michael Arndt replaced as scriptwriter on Episode VII? The answer seems to be simpler than “His screenplay was a mess”—indeed, by all accounts it was a great Star Wars screenplay that delivered what most people would want. In short, the issue was that Arndt’s screenplay emphasised…
Michael Arndt is out and Lawrence Kasdan and J.J. Abrams are in. News has officially hit that scripting duties on Star Wars: Episode VII have switched from Arndt to Kasdan and Abrams. For some reason, fans are having a major freakout. Everyone needs to take a deep breath. For starters, let’s not forget that Kasdan…
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