[McCallum said that series creator George Lucas has elaborate plans for the interstitial material, which will link old characters with new ones.] He envisions somewhere like 100 hours between Episode III and Episode IV with a lot of characters that we haven't met but have been developed in other novels and other things, ... So we're really excited about that because I think finally we can have the opportunity to answer everybody's questions once and for all by the time we finish the series. |
[Rick McCallum, who served as producer on the recent Star Wars films, revealed to Now Playing Magazine some of the details of the two upcoming TV series based on the franchise created by George Lucas.] The live-action television series is something we're planning for just at the beginning of 2007, ... We're just starting to interview writers and trying to really figure out which direction [to go]. |
Episode IV -- The Empire Strikes Back. |
George is a product of Vietnam, not a product of Bush, ... That feeling has been in the context of every script I've ever read -- every draft -- way before Bush became president. |
He envisions somewhere like 100 hours between Episode III and Episode IV with a lot of characters that we haven't met but have been developed in other novels and other things. So we're really excited about that because I think finally we can have the opportunity to answer everybody's questions once and for all by the time we finish the series. |
He loves his wife so much that he thinks he is doing something to protect and save her, ... But what he's really doing is he's getting addicted to power. The more power he gets the more he wants and then once you do that, there's nothing left because you're willing to sacrifice everything. At the end of the day, Anakin sacrifices his family. He does fulfill his destiny after another 25 years and lets his son live and basically dies redeeming himself. But he goes through a lot of s--- and causes a lot of pain to people for a long time. |
Hopefully he'll do it by the end of this month and hopefully Steven and Harrison will be happy and then they're going to go off and make it, |
Hopefully if we can make it work and everybody's excited and watches it, we will keep on going. |
I love that scene. But at least it's on the DVD. |
I'm amazed nobody's had a problem with that whatsoever, ... They can all identify with that. It's like your mother having cancer or your sister being hit by a car -- there are so many things subliminally in people's lives that make them relate to him, but it was a very tough concept on paper to get through. |
It's not political in the sense of left or right or anything else, it's just about power, ... It's just an action-adventure film for kids. At the end of the day, no matter how you look at it, that's who we make it for. |
It's trying to say, 'Look, if you lie to your parents, if you lie once, it gets easier. If you lie again, there are consequences to everything you do, ... You must not take fame, celebrity and power too literally because there's nothing worse than see kids being seduced by some person they see as powerful. We're all alike. And you see the beginning of the end of any person success and talent when they wake up one day and think they're better than somebody else and think they are beyond the law. That's when everything happens. That's when all hell breaks loose. |
Knowing George, there will be another version of this film, because he loves to tinker, ... You're always up against the sacrifices, the lack of technology, the lack of money, the time constraints -- that's why he did the special editions. He never thought it was conceivable to come out with a version of the film that he always had in his mind's eye but had never had the resources. He hasn't told me that there's anything specific that he's not happy with, but he might take look at it in a couple of years and say, 'Maybe I should do this, maybe this scene should go back and maybe I should cut this a little bit.' |
Most people just want to see the movie, ... But for us, as with The Lord of the Rings, the freaks and geeks are fascinated by the creative process, and we try to demystify it for them. |
On a massive, huge film like 'Titanic' you might have 450 (or) 500 shots. This has just over 2,000. So virtually, it's a total-digital movie. |