Calling all Star Wars geeks!!!!

[Rosie]

I have my daughter home sick today, and we just finished watching "When Star Wars Ruled the World" on VH1. Actually, she watched most of it, I caught the last ten minutes.

At the end of the show, they mentioned the recent three movies -- Attack of the Clones and the other two.

Six movies total in the series.

HOWEVER! I seem to remember back in the 80s, reading and seeings stories about Star Wars where George Lucas said there were actually NINE acts to his space play. The first three were supposed to be about Luke and Leia's parents, the middle three about Luke and Leia, then the last three were supposed to be about Luke's kids and Leia's kids.

Am I the only one who remembers this?? ???

 

[Pastor]

Getting geeky... Luke and Leia are brother and sister. If they make three movies about them having kids, it would be really really creepy.

 

[Rosie]

Clarified the post.

 

[zeke12]

There are nine parts to the original story.

Lucas has said he will not make the final three.

They get pretty weird, from what I heard. Remember the chloridian stuff with anakin's blood in Phantom Menace?

That becomes important later, as I believe future rebel forces try to clone Luke or something.

Perhaps a bigger geek than me can enlighten further.

 

[Cadet]

I'm not a Star Wars geek, but I used to live with one.

There is a whole universe out there. The movies are just a small part of it. There are multiple series of books that carry on the story, both pre- and post-trilogies. There are also sequential comic books, plus a Cartoon Network miniseries that bridged the gap between the two most recent movies.

 

[zeke12]

Yeah, they explain **** like General Grievous.

I didn't want to study to go see a ****ing action flick, though.

But the last movie was bad-ass, so you have to give that to Lucas. Money-grubbing prick that he is.

 

[hungryhungryhippo]

So if Lucas isn't doing the final three, is anyone going to make 'em?

 

[sportschick]

Lee could fill in the Grievous stuff more fully. Grievous' ship was shot down. He thinks it was the Jedi, explaining his irrational hatred for them. In reality it was the emperor/Palpatine.

Some of the books are pretty damned good, some of them are ****. I haven't read all of them, at least not yet. Personally, I don't think they're necessary. Although reading the ones that take place in between the movies do give some insight.

And I sound like a total and complete dork now. I'm going to go back to bed and hide.

 

[alleyallen]

There's been numerous debates about that very thing Hippo. Unfortunately, I don't know if I've ever heard the true answer to that question. If a Star Wars movie is made without the George Lucas hand behind it (assuming he were to free up the franchise), would it be better than one of his vehicles?

 

[sportschick]

Remember that both Empire and Jedi were written (OK the screenplay was) and directed by other people. And both of them (well other than the Ewoks) are better movies than the rest of the series (I am willing to entertain debate on Sith being better than Jedi, however).

 

[outofplace]

The thing about Star Wars is everything is supposed to be "in continuity" and approved by Lucas (or his people)... comic books, tv shows, movies, etc.

Of course, the more you read and watch, the more holes you find. Freak that I am, I've read a bunch of the books and there are plot holes you could fly a Death Star through.

The 9 parts is kind of a legend, from what I remember. Lucas had it in his head, but he'd never really fleshed out the last three installments. Just as he fleshed out the stories that have made it to the screen as he wrote the scripts.

The books are fun for the truly geeky. There is stuff like Luke rebuilding the Jedi order. Han and Leia's kids becoming Jedi. Luke marries a reformed associate of the Emperor's (no more no love for the Jedi)

Yeah, I'm scaring myself. Truth is, best to just enjoy the movies (and the books if you care to take that extra step into geek-dom) and don't even try to figure it all out.

And sportschick, I knew I liked you for some reason....didn't realize it was shared geekiness....you actually out-geeked me on the Greivous stuff.

 

[TigerVols]

I just visited Skywalker Ranch the other day and interviewed someone in the know...don't want to let too much out of the bag, but I can say that the Star Wars saga as a movie is over BUT it will live on in a long-form TV series that Lucasfilm plans to produce for more than 100 episodes at a quality level never before seen in the TV medium. It's in the show that the back story will all be explained and developed.

 

[BigDog]

Again, I'd like to point out that as soon as I saw the thread title and its "!!!!" I knew Rosie was the culprit.

Everyone has their tendencies. And Rosie loves her exclamation points.

 

[ADifferentOkie]

Wow, I don't even own any of the movies and I'm the only one to bring this insight?
Lucas did originally plan to do nine movies. But somewhere along the way he realized he wouldn't be able to do it.
He pointed out it took him a decade to make each of the trilogies and he's now too old to start on another trilogy.
So fans will just have to live with what they've got.
In fact, there are very strong rumors that much of what was going to be done in the seventh through ninth movies was actually wrapped into Jedi.

 

[Claws for Concern]

I much prefer Hardware Wars

 

[Riddick]

damn! I really am a ****in geek. I read this whole damn thread.

 

[Rosie]

Riddick, I posted it, so what does that say about me? [/major scifi geek]

And BigDog, there is NOTHING wrong with exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!! I save them for here, I never use them in stories and maybe once in a great while in my column. ;D

Thanks for all the input, everyone. I appreciate it.

 

[zeke12]

Sith was better than Jedi.

There, someone had to say it.

In order of preference:

Empire
New Hope
Sith
Jedi
Clones
Phantom Menace.

What's great about that list is that I love the first three, can deal with the next two and absolutely hate the last.

HATE IT.

 

[sportschick]

I've gotta disagree. New Hope is NOT better than Sith or Jedi.
Empire
Jedi/Sith (I go back and forth. I'll admit it)
New Hope
Phantom Menance
Clones (the terribly written and acted love story ruins the pretty good story line about the clones)

 

[zeke12]

DQ'd for not listing Menace last.

A bad love story has ruined many a movie, but only one movie had Jar-Jar.