George Lucas hints at new film project

how many qt traps does it feature?

>>82688989
I doubt he'd would write a transexual into his new film, sir.

>>82688973
>super fantasy, capes and swords and laser guns and spaceships shooting each other, and all that sort of stuff

Soooooo, Star Wars?

George is going to save us from capeshit

>>82689015
hard pass

>>82689040
He's literally writing a capeshit movie.

>>82689038
I'm glad "The Star Wars" exists. Although I'm never seen it myself I hear it's quite good.

>>82688973
Didn't Lucas say for years he wanted to do small indie films after the was done with Star Wars? But now it's yet another adventure movie.

>>82688973
Sounds great, but it seems like it may be out of place in his filmography. I'm all for branching out but there is such a thing as too new and too risky.

>>82689131
>>82689127
>>82689091
>>82689038
can't tell if memeing or generally retarded.

>>82689038
George Lucas: Hello everyone! I'm hyping a movie that I'm making that's called >not Star Wars

>>82689131
In another interview he describes it as a cross between THX, American Graffitti, and Apocalypse Now.

>>82688973

Looks like kino's back on the menu boys.

>>82689205
>THX, American Graffitti, and Apocalypse Now.

Oh wow he's gonna fuck this up royally.

>>82689151
That's weird because it's pretty easy to tell that you're retarded

I hope it goes well

George has a lot of faults but his heart's in the right place

>>82689274
Literally what could go wrong?

>>82688973
Here is our first look at it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbgf5BC_s-4

I'd rather he make another American Graffiti sort of thing

He's bad at sci-fi

>>82689245
n-nooooooooooo... my secrets.

>>82689298
I like george's ideas and visuals. But he does need a filter aka a voice of reason. At least for dialogue.

Here's what I could make out from Lucas's notes from the photographs of his desk from the article:

>Aquilae is a small independent country like North Vietnam threatened by a neighbour or provincial rebellion, instigated by gangsters aided by empire. Fight to get rightful planet back. Half of system has been lost to gangsters…
>The empire is like America ten years from now, after gangsters assassinated the Emperor and were elevated to power in a rigged election…
>We are at a turning point: fascism or revolution …
>Notes on new beginning…
>for three main characters—the general, the princess, the boy (Justin Valor)—make development chart…
>Put time-limit in children’s packs…
>every scene must be set up and linked to next…
>make scene where Valor visits with old friend on Granicus…
>Oxus very old (150 years)…
>Should threat be bigger, more sinister?...
>A conflict between freedom and conformity…
>Tell at least two stories: Valor becomes a man (not good enough); Dodona wakes up (morally speaking)…
>Dodona like Green Beret who realises wrong of Empire…
>Second thoughts about Plot…
>Make Hu Tho a geologist or something…
>The general addresses men…
>Akira Valor leaps across (ramp being pulled away)…
>Weapon called a Thundersaber...

>>82689228
He also said it's those three combined with A Hard Day's Night, Dr. Strangelove, and The Adventures Of Robin Hood.

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>>82689419
>Thundersaber

>>82689493
Why, you don't like that name? I think it's a cool name for a super fantasy weapon.

>>82689626
Because it's one word off of Lightsaber. No creativity whatsoever, he's just rehashing and renaming old ideas.

>>82689709
Lucas said that's his goal. He wants to reuse traditional elements. Martin Scorsese said in the article:

>"He has all these books with him, like Isaac Asimov's Guide to The Bible and he's envisioning this fantasy epic. He did explain that he wants to tap into the collective unconscious of fairy tales. And he's screening certain movies, like Howard Hawks's Air Force and The Adventures of Robin Hood."

>>82688973

>tfw Lucas makes a better star wars-like film then disney current star wars films

>>82689942
It's about a half robot samurai named Akira Valor with superpowers.

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>>82689419
>America is the evil empire

>>82689885
But this is just Star Wars. He's done this before. This time, it will be without anyone to help him do all the good bits, I imagine. So it's going to be bad.

>>82689419
>Dodona

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jan_Dodonna

What did he meme by this?

>>82689419
>every scene must be set up and linked to next…

That this is optional, and that it appears so far down the list, says it all.

>>82689419
>Thundersaber
Now this
I can get behind this

>>82688973
>2001
But 2001 is a slow, ponderous movie

>>82689353
muh diiiii

>>82690101
But it was ground breaking for its effects and it's social commentary back in 1954

>>82690101
It's a great film.

>>82690157
Fuck you, you never even saw it, wait until a better target for your memeing comes along.

>>82690063
Nigga I doubt Lucas ever read a single EU book or comic.

>>82689205
wha

>>82688973
>excited by Lucas in 2017
m8...

>>82690183
I was me ming about 54
I have seen it
Several times and I will reiterate
It may be slow but as I say it was ground breaking

>>82688973
>But its not camp
fucking why? why can't he just admit he's campy. if he had fun with this instead of getting super cereal maybe it won't suck.

>>82689131
This flew over most people's heads, sadly.

>>82690248
You may have gone too far in a few places

>>82690223
What social commentary did you perceive in it? I can think of some commentary about human intelligence, artificial intelligence and communication with aliens, but not the kind of satirical comments that social commentary normally implies.

Sun Battles: coming to theaters summer 2020.

>>82690241
>cereal
Serial is what his whole deal is
Oldschool movie serials

>>82689419
>justin valor
>thundersaber

Great, so it's just an 80s Saturday-morning cartoon?

>>82690280
I didn't mean Ina satirical way at all
Quite the opposite as it came at a time of space race, cold war, first computers etc
Scifi of past was in many people's eyes becoming a real thing and I think this touched upon that and the human condition because of that
Blah blah

>>82690204
Yeah, in the interview he goes into it more:

>"This is a much more plotted, structured film than my first two. THX is a milieu film, and Graffiti is a character film, but the new one is plot-action-adventure. Take the first two and combine them with another side of me that hasn't been seen yet and you get this new film. But where it comes from I don't know."

He said he wants to make social commentary about the President, too. He was outraged at the President's recent firing of the guy investigating him.

>>82689997
Do you think audience will accept American troops and American government representing the bad guys?

>>82690316
I think it's a tribute to Inagaki's Samurai movies. The hero is a superhero robot samurai.

>>82690416
Sorry, not a robot. He's a cyborg.

>>82689375
>he's bad at sci fi
>literally created the most popular and beloved sci fi franchise of all time
Are you retarded?

Link to the article?

I guarantee it'll be better than those abortions fro (((Disney)))

>>82690523
>jar jar is the key to all of this

>>82689885
But he already did that, and that's why Star Wars is considered great beyond simple entertainment.

>>82690623
I'm not familiar with this "Star Wars" motion picture although it does sound rather dreadful.

how much would he have to pay harrison ford to be the lead?

>>82690749
The Star Wars isn't bad its a space adventure in the vein of the flash gordon serials, the film had aged quite well until a large number of cartoon animals were added making it largely unwatchable

>>82690054
Lucas is a great idea man. He should produce and do "Story By" movies for the rest of his life. Hire a good screenwriter and a good director to bring his vision, elevate his great ideas and tame down his bad ideas.

Lucas tried to do Douglas Sirk 1950s melodrama in Revenge Of The Sith, and it sucked because he doesn't know how to write it, doesn't know how to shoot it, and the actors don't know how to act that (even if it was written well) Lucas didn't know how to direct his actors.

If he'd hired Todd Haynes, who does know how to do Douglas Sirk 1950s melodrama, it might have worked.

>>82688973
Actually can't believe how many people fell for this b8

>>82691262
>if i point out the b8 i can ruin the fun AND feel superior

>>82691262
Op here. I think you're the first guy to figure it out?

>no sauce
>people keep posting here

jej

>>82690623
But it's not considered great beyond simple entertainment by anyone who isn't a Star Wars fan.

>>82690523
Popularity is nothing to do with quality, the people who like Star Wars shouldn't have the vote, really, they're meatshields.

To me it sounds like something really campy and surreal, as if Terry Gilliam did star wars

>>82691301
I don't feel that way actually just surprised
>>82691335
I don't think I am, I think there are people who probably egg it on because it's fun to act like George, after all this time, would just make another thing vaguely similar to Star Wars. Which would be hilarious if it were true.

>>82688973
>Lucas gets sued for plagiarizing Star Wars

>>82691479
So it's Harry Harrison?

>>82691498
Tbh I want to see him do something like experimental Terrance Malick, Arthur Lipsett or Godfrey Reggio. I want to see him do abstract films like he did in the 60s.

Nobody gives a shit about "Strange Magic." I don't know why Lucas is dithering- why the wait? ROTS was in 2006. It's been 11 years.

>>82691347
http://www.audiori.net/starwars/timeline1974.html

>>82690749
very witty.

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>>82688973
How Many Times Do We Have To Teach You This Lesson, Old Man

>>82689205
Elsewhere he described it as a cross between Indian Jones, Willow, Howard the Duck, and Kagemusha

>>82688973
Bullshit
No sauce

>>82692300
In all seriousness, Lucas seriously did describe Star Wars as a cross between THX, American Graffiti, and Apocalypse Now. After Apocalypse Now got shut down Lucas took a lot of his ideas from that script and put them into The Star Wars. The Ewoks were supposed to be Wookies, and they represented the Vietnamese.

Lucas wanted it to be a comedy satire, like Dr. Strangelove, shot in a mockumentary style. Later when he did More American Grafitti he put a Vietnam scene in it that was like his original ideas for Apocalypse. Later he sold his Vietnam movie to Francis.

Meanwhile, he also wanted Dr Strangelove to influence The Star Wars. The earlier scripts had a lot of scenes of squabbling and scheming Imperial politicians angling for power and promotions. That was Lucas's comment on Nixon. He even hired the cinematographer of A Hard Days Night Gilbert Taylor for the movie.

And A Hard Night also influenced Star Wars. He had Gilbert Taylor (also of Hard Day's Night) but also Hard Day's Night's editor John Jympson fired. He wanted to shoot Star Wars like a documentary (not in shaky cam way, but in a 60s still camera long shots long lenses) but edit it quickly to give it energy, like Hard Day's Night. John wouldn't do that, so Lucas fired him, and he, Richard Chew, and Marcia edited it themselves and saved the movie.

>>82692504
By the way, that entire thing of the Wookies/Ewoks being the Vietnamese furry aliens fighting against the baddies came from a George RR Martin story called And Seven Times Never Kill Man, which was GRRM's comment on imperialism and Vietnam and Rudyard Kipling.

>>82689245
Honestly you're more retarded than him

>>82688973
He also said any movie he makes isn't going to be released and is just going to be for his family and friends

>>82692730
Star Wars fans may have gone too far in a few places

>>82692730
it will get released. whether he wants it to or not someone will find a way.

>>82692730

>implying that will stop people

>>82688973
The REAL episode 7 coming through.