Lucas: Spidey silly, more Star Wars not

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Thu May 10, 2007 — by Elayne Riggs

Lucas: Spidey silly, more Star Wars not

Hints at TV mini-movies

Okay, let me get this straight -- the Spider-Man movies are silly, but Jar-Jar Binks is a nifty idea?

Ohh-kay. Glad we cleared that one up.

George Lucas tells Fox News' Roger Friedman, regarding Spidey, "It's a silly movie. There just isn't much there. Once you take it all apart, there's not much story, is there? People thought Star Wars was silly, too. But it wasn't."

Oh, and he's making two more live-action Star Wars films for TV, which he tells Friedman should be about an hour each, "but they won't have members of the Skywalker family as characters. They will be other people of that milieu."

Are Tag and Bink too much to hope for, or are they just too silly?

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Rob (3:47 PM on Thu May 10, 2007)

I refer to Episodes 1-3 of Star Wars as the biggest budget "B" movies of all time. If I read any Star Wars Literature, I make sure it involves the timeline of Episode 4 or past that time. The first episodes show that total movie making freedom can have it's downside. He should have read the original Timothy Zahn Star Wars trilogy of novels, and then he might have had some good ideas for those movies. If you haven't read the Zahn books, and you love the original trilogy of movies...do so today! Rob

M. Sean McManus (6:43 PM on Thu May 10, 2007)

That reminds me, I don't know if anyone realizes this, but "Lucas Got Lucky".

Christopher Moonlight (10:13 AM on Fri May 11, 2007)

I didn't like Star Wars until Episodes 1 - 3 came out... very Fall of the Roman Empire, if anyone know that movie. Spider-Man lost me after the green gob started in on his deal in the first movie. I liked it up until then. I hope Lucas' new TV movies are better then his first three.

Rob (10:20 AM on Fri May 11, 2007)

I think I would rather watch Lucas' Howard the Duck movie than watch Episodes 1-3 ever again. He was starting to show his downfall in many aspects of Return of the Jedi. Han became a two dimensional character that you didn't care about, and Leia suddenly became an old woman (after the Jabba sequence). The first twenty minutes of Jedi were flawless. In episodes 1-3, Lucas gave everyone pretty much the same character traits and everyone spoke like they had a dictionary in their mouths, with all the conviction and emotion that the dictionary carries.

Christopher Moonlight (11:25 PM on Fri May 11, 2007)

Oh... Okay.

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