It's good to learn that there will be more episodes in the Star Wars franchise.
With Disney at the helm, maybe there will be better writing than George Lucas offered. Hopefully the folks at Disney will return some humor back into the franchise, minimize the fluff toy characters, and avoid overt political correctness.
The original trilogy was a futuristic western; the last trilogy was not nearly as fun. Assuming the franchise picks up from Return of the Jedi, it would be really cool to bring Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford back as elder versions of their characters to pass the torch. I wouldn't mind Carrie Fisher either, but you never know with her. Also, Billy Dee Williams would be nice addition.
George Lucas sold his stake for $4.3 billion. That would be unfair except that he's from Hollywood, and Hollywood rich is never complained about.
And in his retirement, Barack Obama could play Jar Jar Binks in the sequels.
Posted by: bubba | 10/31/2012 at 07:17 PM
...or he could go on being President.
I'm a Star Wars fan, but I'm a little more circumspect about new movies.
The last three were, for me, such crushing disappointments that I'd sort of like them to stick a fork in it, or continue to make cartoons and other media but stop with the movies.
Perhaps the way forward is actually to do what they've done in Star Wars comics very successfully for many years -- tell stories of people in the universe (and the wars) who aren't the main characters in the first movies.
This is something like the Indiana Jones conundrum, really. I'm such a big Indy fan I was looking forward to getting another movie. And while I didn't hate "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" as much as some people did...I didn't feel like it lived up to the legacy of the original trilogy. If they do another one (and they keep talking about it), I hope they'll get it right. But I won't hold my breath.
Posted by: Joe Killian | 11/07/2012 at 09:13 AM
My problem with "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" is that once he discovered aliens, it made all of his previous discoveries, the Ark, etc look trivial. Aliens answer to many questions.
Posted by: Spag | 11/07/2012 at 09:30 AM
I think there's room for both -- but it does sort of change the tone.
Posted by: Joe Killian | 11/07/2012 at 09:47 AM