{"id":108396,"date":"2019-12-11T14:20:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T12:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ngradio.gr\/?p=108396"},"modified":"2019-12-11T14:20:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T12:20:32","slug":"everything-george-lucas-has-said-about-his-theoretical-star-wars-sequel-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngradio.gr\/en\/cinema-tv\/everything-george-lucas-has-said-about-his-theoretical-star-wars-sequel-trilogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything George Lucas has said about his theoretical Star Wars sequel trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

George Lucas<\/a> has not made a Star Wars movie since Revenge of the Sith, <\/em>but that hasn\u2019t stopped him from imagining where his franchise might have gone. As long as there\u2019s been a Star Wars series, Lucas has talked openly, even after selling Lucasfilm to Disney, about how his version would have wrapped up. The story of the Skywalker Saga, which will end in just a few weeks withStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker<\/em><\/a>, has been in the planning for the better part of 50 years, and for most of those, the only person that could see the whole picture was George Lucas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Mark Hamill, the first he heard of a proposed sequel trilogy<\/a> was all the way back in 1976, on the set of the first Star Wars. Sitting in the desert between takes, Lucas told him that he planned 12 movies in this series, and that they\u2019d film Episode 9 somewhere in 2011, when Hamill was the right age. And since then, it seems, Lucas never stopped planning those sequels. The filmmaker has kept the details of his future films under wraps over the years, but in 2012, when Lucas sold Star Wars to Disney, he finally started to open up about what Star Wars would have looked like if he remained at the helm. Here\u2019s what could have been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE CHARACTERS OF GEORGE LUCAS\u2019 STAR WARS SEQUEL TRILOGY<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to Lucas, there were\u00a0always plans for a Star Wars sequel trilogy. But the conception of the story only started in earnest as he prepared to sell Lucasfilm, the idea being that he could send whichever conglomerate bought his company in the right direction on a new set of films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a\u00a0Tribeca Film Festival panel in 2015, Lucas explained that his trilogy idea would have more or less picked up the mantle laid down by the Expanded Universe novels. Lucas wanted his sequels to represent yet another generational change. \u201cThe original saga was about the father, the children, and the grandchildren,\u201d Lucas said during the panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with a\u00a0return from the original cast, which we got in Disney\u2019s sequel trilogy as well, Lucas\u2019 sequels supposedly covered the stories of Anakin\u2019s two grandchildren, who were supposed to be around 20 in the films, so it wasn\u2019t \u201cPhantom Menace<\/em>\u00a0again.\u201d In the book,\u00a0The Art of The Force Awakens<\/em>, one of the characters, a Jedi named Kira, is described as a \u201cloner, hothead, gear-headed, badass.\u201d The other teen was most often referred to as Sam, and mostly appears depicted with a blaster, which seems to indicate that he didn\u2019t have Force powers himself. Kira and Sam eventually\u00a0morphed into Rey and some of Finn, which makes sense: Lucas had been developing his sequel movies with the help of screenwriter Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3<\/em>), who went on to receive a writing credit for\u00a0The Force Awakens<\/em>, the first of Disney\u2019s trilogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another major character who appears to have gotten a similar arc to their original version is Luke Skywalker. Phil Szostak, the writer behind the art books for both\u00a0The Force Awakens<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Last Jedi<\/em>, gave a small description of the Luke character in a\u00a0tweet about Episode 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dSo, the late-2012 idea of a Luke Skywalker haunted by the betrayal of one of his students, in self-imposed exile & spiritually in \u2018a dark place\u2019, not only precedes Rian Johnson\u2019s involvement in Star Wars but J.J. Abrams\u2019, as well,\u201d Szostak wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2018, concept artist Christian Alzmann posted a Lucas-approved image\u00a0on Instagram\u00a0that looks incredibly close to the version of Luke we see in\u00a0The Last Jedi<\/em>. The painted piece portrays a grizzled, older Luke Skywalker. \u201cLuke was being described as a Col. Kurtz type, hiding from the world in a cave,\u201d Alzmann wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My first image I made for Star Wars : The Force Awakens. This was January of 2013. Luke was being described as a Col. Kurtz type hiding from the world in a cave. I couldn\u2019t believe I was getting to make this image and I got a George \u201cFabulouso\u201d on it to boot. #starwars #lukeskywalker #conceptart #theforceawakens<\/a><\/p>

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