The Star Wars prequels were a different kind of story
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The “Star Wars” prequels looked back and used a different cast to tell a completely different type of story, in many ways the inverse of the original trilogy. Instead of moving his original story forward, he decided to bring it full circle. Part of the appeal of these entries is that they’re Lucas’ genuine attempts to expand on his original mythology, even if their faults are due to the man’s inability to restrain himself from his own ideas. For all their overused computer-generated effects, soap opera cliches, and over-explanations of mystical sci-fi fantasy concepts, the prequels are still the original product of a creative visionary who still maintained his refusal to abide by big Hollywood studios — even as he ran one of his own.
Why George Lucas Couldn’t Rely On Studios To Make The Star Wars Prequels
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By Andrew Housman/May 20, 2022 1:08 pm EST
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“When I said to my colleagues that I was going to start from the beginning, and with a nine-year-old kid, they were saying, ‘This is a disaster, this will never work, it’ll destroy the franchise. Can’t we get Harrison Ford back?’ If I’d have been at a studio, if I’d had to answer to somebody, that film would probably never have been made. And then the story wouldn’t work. I’m trying to tell a six-part story, and a studio wouldn’t be interested in a six-part story, they just want sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel.”
The Star Wars prequels were a different kind of story
The “Star Wars” prequels looked back and used a different cast to tell a completely different type of story, in many ways the inverse of the original trilogy. Instead of moving his original story forward, he decided to bring it full circle. Part of the appeal of these entries is that they’re Lucas’ genuine attempts to expand on his original mythology, even if their faults are due to the man’s inability to restrain himself from his own ideas. For all their overused computer-generated effects, soap opera cliches, and over-explanations of mystical sci-fi fantasy concepts, the prequels are still the original product of a creative visionary who still maintained his refusal to abide by big Hollywood studios — even as he ran one of his own.
