Heads Up: George Lucas on 60 Minutes

Chasing Kate

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Mar 19, 2005, 6:12:03 AM3/19/05

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Tomorrow night 7:30 on channel 9

George does a promotional interview for his latest
in the new SW films... Ooooh more secrets revealed....

What a pity the last two films were nowhere near a patch on
the original trilogy?

Howcome he never saw fit to use the original writers from the
original trilogy?

Chris Cox

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Mar 19, 2005, 9:47:00 AM3/19/05

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"Chasing Kate" <sittingi...@internode.on.net> wrote in message
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Ummmm...he did. Himself.

Jezza

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Mar 19, 2005, 11:05:37 AM3/19/05

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"Chris Cox" <cj...@ohyeahbaby.spam.optushome.com.au> wrote in message
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George Lucas wrote ANH himself, but TESB was co-written with Leigh Brackett
and Lawrence Kasdan and ROTJ was also co-written with Kasdan.

in...@haffnerpress.com

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Mar 19, 2005, 7:00:18 PM3/19/05

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FWIW, Leigh Brackett turned in the first draft of TESB (her cover page
reads: STAR WARS SEQUEL) in February of 1978 before dying of cancer
weeks later on March 24th.

While she wrote her script from story notes and telephone interviews
with Lucas, none (I repeat NONE!) of her contributions were utilized in
subsequent drafts or the final script. I've read her script and
although I'm a big Brackett fan (in 2002 I published a 500-page book of
her earliest stories), her screenplay is pretty bad.

Lucas enjoyed working with Brackett and wanted her name on the film and
he ensured that her estate would benefit from the finished product.
I've read a letter written by Richard C. Jones, then-attorney for
Brackett's estate and he is effusive on how above-board and reputable
Lucas is.

Grist for the mill,

Stephen Haffner
Big Poobah
HAFFNER PRESS

Chasing Kate

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Mar 19, 2005, 8:37:50 PM3/19/05

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Jezza wrote:

OH Didn't know all that thankyou

Ar9

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Mar 20, 2005, 7:49:10 AM3/20/05

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I didn't watch this tonight to avoid spoilers and any clips from the
new movie. Did anybody watch it?

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Jezza

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Mar 20, 2005, 8:30:06 AM3/20/05

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"Ar9" <Ar9.1...@no-mx.forums.eyo.com.au> wrote in message
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Yep!

Highlandish

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Mar 20, 2005, 3:22:07 PM3/20/05

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Quoth The Raven "Ar9"<Ar9.1...@no-mx.forums.eyo.com.au> in
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was good, but I was disappointed that Lucas said he has worked so hard all
his life that he can now sit back and make failures and he doesn't care.

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John Constantine

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Mar 20, 2005, 6:21:03 PM3/20/05

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Ar9 wrote:

> I didn't watch this tonight to avoid spoilers and any clips from the new movie. Did anybody watch it?

SPOILER SPACE

Darth Sidious eventually becomes Emperor Palpatine, Anakin and Amidala
have two kids, Anakin turns to the Dark Side and basically becomes
Palpatine's right-hand man and they rule the galaxy with an iron fist.

Much later, Anakin's son joins some kind of rebelion or something, but
that's another story...

zaphy

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Mar 20, 2005, 6:43:40 PM3/20/05

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On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:49:10 +1100, Ar9
<Ar9.1...@no-mx.forums.eyo.com.au> unleashed:

>I didn't watch this tonight to avoid spoilers and any clips from the
>new movie. Did anybody watch it?

Spoilers - Anakin turns to the dark side..

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Koenig

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Mar 20, 2005, 7:39:21 PM3/20/05

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>
> was good, but I was disappointed that Lucas said he has worked so hard all
> his life that he can now sit back and make failures and he doesn't care.

And that quote in context was actually his belief that he has earned the
right to make films that will be failures "in comparison with the Star Wars
blockbusters" ie. small independent films.

Jezza

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Mar 20, 2005, 8:50:19 PM3/20/05

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"Koenig" <trevor...@aanet.com.ayyou> wrote in message
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The story was mainly about George Lucas, his personal life, his future and
the techniques used by IL&M to make it all come together, very little on
SW:ROTS except for............

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SPACE---------------------------------------------------------------------------

...saying that there was one big twist to come in this episode, it's much
darker than previous movies and that the movie basically ends in Hell (some
planet where it's basically all erupting volcanos and lava...

Chasing Kate

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Mar 20, 2005, 8:39:03 PM3/20/05

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John Constantine wrote:

> Ar9 wrote:
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> > I didn't watch this tonight to avoid spoilers and any clips from the new movie. Did anybody watch it?
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> SPOILER SPACE
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> SPOILER SPACE
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> SPOILER SPACE
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> SPOILER SPACE
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> SPOILER SPACE
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> SPOILER SPACE
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> Darth Sidious eventually becomes Emperor Palpatine, Anakin and Amidala
> have two kids, Anakin turns to the Dark Side and basically becomes
> Palpatine's right-hand man and they rule the galaxy with an iron fist.

So who was the guy in the senate in TPM?????
I always thought he was Palpatine?
In fact they even called him Senator Palpatine....

So how can Palpatine be Darth Siddious?

Cackling Pipes

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Mar 20, 2005, 9:10:53 PM3/20/05

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Chasing Kate wrote:

> John Constantine wrote:
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>>Ar9 wrote:
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>>>I didn't watch this tonight to avoid spoilers and any clips from the new movie. Did anybody watch it?
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>>SPOILER SPACE
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>>SPOILER SPACE
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>>SPOILER SPACE
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>>SPOILER SPACE
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>>Darth Sidious eventually becomes Emperor Palpatine, Anakin and Amidala
>>have two kids, Anakin turns to the Dark Side and basically becomes
>>Palpatine's right-hand man and they rule the galaxy with an iron fist.
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> So who was the guy in the senate in TPM?????
> I always thought he was Palpatine?
> In fact they even called him Senator Palpatine....
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> So how can Palpatine be Darth Siddious?
>

How can Anakin Skywalker be Darth Vader?

Chasing Kate

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Mar 20, 2005, 9:15:39 PM3/20/05

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Jezza wrote:

Is this the planet Stygia????

I mean they must get Stygian crystals from somewhere. That's what
powers the weapons in Darth Maul's ship in TPM

And saying something is Stygian is also a hell reference

Koenig

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Mar 20, 2005, 9:41:03 PM3/20/05

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"Chasing Kate" <sittingi...@internode.on.net> wrote in message

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This wasn't mentioned in the film itself though was it? Its just another
reference dreamed up by fans intent on identifying and providing pages of
back story for aliens and machinery on screen for approximately 2.3 seconds.

DeFett

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Mar 20, 2005, 9:57:55 PM3/20/05

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What was with the fan art picture at the introduction of the segment,
it was awful ...Did 60 minutes really think that was a real Ep3 image?

Chasing Kate

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Mar 21, 2005, 4:19:12 AM3/21/05

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Koenig wrote:

Well that info came from a Cross Section book which was printed
based on blueprints from one of the creators of the ships in TPM so
it wasn't a fan based idea..

Highlandish

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Mar 21, 2005, 1:20:16 AM3/21/05

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Quoth The Raven "John Constantine"<jconst...@vatican.va> in
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bit late for spoiler space, we knew this in 1976

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Mar 21, 2005, 10:00:24 PM3/21/05

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DeFett wrote:

Ta thanks I don't know why that name came up
but it just seemed the right name for a hellish planet

imorf

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Mar 22, 2005, 11:00:23 PM3/22/05

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Darkfalz wrote:
> A score of us gave chase but it fled into the Stygian Abyss with poor
> Arial.

did you ever play Ultima IV?

Darkfalz

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Mar 22, 2005, 6:35:31 AM3/22/05

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