Lucasfilm Denies New Star Wars Trilogy Is in the Works



Here's the story:

Crushing some fanboys’ dreams, Lucasfilm denied a supposed insider report Saturday that alleged George Lucas is planning to film three new Star Wars movies.

The report, published late Friday by IESB and citing an “ultra top-secret Lucasfilm insider,” claims the new trilogy would land after the planned 3-D conversion of the six Star Wars films.

“This is, of course, completely false,” Lucasfilm spokesman Josh Kushins told Wired.com in an e-mail Saturday about the report. “George Lucas has plenty of projects to keep him busy right now — including plenty of Star Wars projects — but there are no new Star Wars feature films planned.”

On message boards, sci-fi fans — stung by rumors like this in the past, as well as by changes to the original Star Wars films over the years — discussed the plausibility of a new trilogy.

“Obviously it’s a rumor, but [IESB] must have heard it somewhere and are only reporting what they hear,” wrote ObiWanJedi93 on TheForce.net’s Star Wars community board. “I, personally, would love to see another trilogy, so long as it doesn’t overlook everything that has happened post-[Return of the Jedi], like the Thrawn trilogy/Legacy of the Force/Fate of the Jedi.”

Others reacted a bit less optimistically.

“Oh gawd why!?” wrote Princess Namey on an Adult Swim message board thread about the rumor. “Why can’t [Lucas] try and make ‘orginal’ movies again, and leave Star Wars alone?”

Both the IESB website and the official Star Wars forums were experiencing technical problems Saturday afternoon, possibly due to overwhelming interest in the rumor.

Wired.com’s original mention of IESB’s report follows:

Quoting an “ultra top-secret Lucasfilm insider,” IESB reports that George Lucas is planning to roll out a new Star Wars trilogy after the six original films have been converted into 3-D.

“George Lucas is plotting to create new Star Wars movies at the ultra top-secret Skywalker Ranch,” the entertainment news site says. “This is deja vu of the mid ’90s when Uncle George [started] tweaking the Holy Trilogy to gear up for the Special Editions.”

IESB’s anonymous source says the films probably would be set in the Star Wars universe but would not focus on the Skywalker family.

“Too early for story details but one thing that our source is certain about, they will not be prequels but instead sequels,” IESB says. “It’s not for certain if they will be the long-awaited Episodes 7, 8 and 9 but could instead be Episodes 10, 11 and 12 or possibly even further out in the Star Wars timeline. And by giving space in the timeline, possibly even as far as 100 years or 1,000 years in the Star Wars universe future, Lucas avoids having to make these stories ‘fit in’ with what the previous stories have told.”

The unconfirmed report says the new trilogy, which ideally would hit theaters within two years of the 3-D re-release of the first six Star Wars movies, would have nothing to do with the live-action Star Wars television show that’s in development.

Wired.com has contacted Lucasfilm in an attempt to confirm or deny IESB’s report, but it’s the weekend — and Lucasfilm is secretive, for obvious reasons — so don’t hold your breath. In the meantime, read IESB’s story for all the murky details: “The Line Starts Here … Again! New Star Wars Movies Planned”

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/10/ ... s-trilogy/

Nearly every other respected movie site I visit have said they've got sources (who have came through in the past) confirming that the sequels are in the works. Make of that what you will

Question is, should it even be attempted?

There you go.

I have all the films, but will I buy them again in 3D? Never. Not a good sign, since if a Jedi says no to more Star Wars merchandise what about the general public?

God I hope not.

1-3 were crap.

So were IV to VI.

*runs*






PS. I am only joking. Please don't kill me.

George Lucas is a terrible director and laughable writer.

George Lucas is now a one trick pony. His head is sop far up dis Death-Star sized arse that he’s not given anything any thought.

Where's Tim?

Hello.
Further up the page I read this " the ultra top-secret Skywalker Ranch". With reporting like this it's no surprise the majority of this article is filled with conjecture and fan postings.
For what it's worth, I'd really like to see a Star Wars set far in the future after the events of Return of the Jedi, but I don't think George Lucas is the man to deal with it.
Let him farm it out to someone with the creativity to carry it forward instead of running it aground, or just leave it alone.

Mark

The original plan was for another three episodes after Return but Lucas abandoned that idea.

No, the original plan was for one film, but the script was so detailed and massive that they had to split it in to three.

Mark

Amazing. I totally agree. I don't see why he can produce and just get Tim Zahn, or J Michael wasisface, or Aaron Sorkin, or anybody of that calibre to write it and then get somebody cool to direct. Spielberg would be a nice touch, as he'd have the right aesthetic and knows George well. Bob Zemeckis maybe, or somebody ultrally new fangled whatever.



Right again. Jeepers.

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Lucas had originally scripted ten episodes of a huge saga covering the skywalker family. The last four were dropped.

No mate. Originally it's as I outlined above, one mahoosive film script that was broken down in to three films later on.
It's no secret that early black & white serials such as Flash Gordon influenced the creation, but it was never originally intended as a series.

Mark

It's the internetz that created all this nonsense about anything beyond ep 6. There was no grand design at the beginning. Mark is correct.

However, the concept of new material that continued the explore the universe in an entertaining way may never go away.

Aside from merely telling the story of Anakin and the prophecy, what the prequels did very well is expand the concepts of the Old Republic, the Jedi and the force in a way that Old Ben just couldn't. He was mega old by the time of ep 4 and hardly a General any more. Luke gave us a bit of that in 6, but it was just him.

You can say that hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster, but I just don't buy that....