By George Robbins
There are plenty of different productions going on related to Hollywood these days and some of those upcoming productions are related to older movies that haven’t been around for a while. It isn’t that new a concept to take an older movie and make a sequel to it many years later as this is usually a good way to make money on something people loved. This is usually done by taking an older movie that people loved from many years ago and making a newly updated version of that movie that, at the very least, changes things around a bit. This is perhaps the best way of creating a “new” film that people will enjoy and studios can put a lot of investment into. The other option we have seen lately has been the aforementioned one where they take films that released 20 or more years ago and they make sequels to them in order to draw people in.
The latter discussed option is the one that seems like the better suited one to get people to go out to theaters because it combines the two fields of nostalgia and something entirely new. Those movies get people interested because they remember the original films fondly and would love to see another movie be made to follow up the story of the original. This doesn’t always work out because we have seen movies get sequels that weren’t needed and it can annoy fans because to them, they ruined films that already ended exactly how they should have. If this is the case, then the new film will not produce any more unnecessary sequels because the studio would know there is no point. The damage has already been wrought by that point though and people have already paid to go and see the movie.
While making sequels to older movies may prove to be better in terms of getting people to come and see movies, there is a lot of merit in getting people to come and see remakes as well. Remakes are movies that share the name and basic story elements of other original films, but they make changes that can totally affect the outcome of the storyline. While some remakes are very faithful to their original films that they are based upon, there are others that end up changing many aspects of the film in ways no one would have expected to see. While the changes in most remakes can be seen as bad and not doing well to preserve the legacy of the original film, some remakes do a good job with it. It is entirely possible for a movie to make a lot of changes from the original and somehow come out being better than the original, but this is much less likely to happen.
With the pandemic currently affecting the world at large, there are various industries being affected by the changes put in place in order to protect the lives of various people. Among those industries that have been affected is the film industry which has been suffering pretty harshly because off everything that is happening. Movie theaters in particular have been hit the hardest and the pandemic has caused many to shut down until further notice or possibly go bankrupt. In the meantime, people on the production side of things have been looking for things to do since their movies have essentially been delayed until further notice. With a few notable exceptions being released on digital rather than awaiting theatrical release, most movies are just waiting for a time when the pandemic will end and they can be shown to the public. Assuming that theaters survive the pandemic, this is currently the plan in place to ensure that studios can make the most revenue out of their movies as possible.
Hollywood isn’t just going to sit around and wait for the pandemic to end though as they are now laser-focused on making movies that they will be releasing in the far off future. All productions, like any other business, were shut down when the pandemic first began and it took a few months before they could finally start back up again. When productions were able to actually start back up again, some of the larger ones took a while before they actually began again because there were new rules in place for them to follow in the meantime. These new rules meant that it would be difficult to get all cast and crew where they needed to be for the movies that were going to be shot on location. Even those that were not being shot on location have had a lot more to do because they had to get sets up and running quickly.
Once all productions got back up and running from where they left off, things started running smoothly once again, but the new guidelines put into place have been tough to deal with. There can only be a set amount of people on the set of the production at one time, everyone must be masked up which also includes actors when not on camera, and everyone must be distanced properly among other rules per location. Filming in various locations all over the world, they must also follow those rules as well which often include quarantine rules for before and after filming to keep the virus from spreading between countries. There have even been issues where productions have had to shut down because they had someone on set test positive for the virus which would delay the overall production. Needless to say, the production side of the movie industry isn’t having any better a time with things as of late and it isn’t going to get any easier.
While the production side of things has it rough, there is still a lot of work getting done these days which means studios will have a large back catalog to work with when things begin to settle down. This is a good thing for studios to have as it means that they won’t have to worry too much if things progressively end up getting worse and they can’t work on films anymore. Unfortunately it also means that they have to come up with release date windows for all of these films and things are still tenuous at best when it comes to this sort of thing. Therefore, what else are people in the industry going to do but continue working on new stuff to stay busy as opposed to sitting around waiting for the pandemic to end. Many have taken to instead come up with new ideas that can be turned into productions in the future, maybe when things are less hectic.
This pandemic situation is very unpredictable for the most part as we don’t know the exact moments when things will end up getting worse or they will end up getting better. A vaccine is underway, but it will still be a while before we see a marketed version of it release on the market for everyone to be vaccinated. With this being a major issue, many people working in the movie industry that are responsible for storyboarding have been thinking of many upcoming film ideas that they have made up. Writers coming up with new ideas for films during this pandemic is nothing to be surprised about, but it seems a lot of those ideas fall into the sequel category of new films. Like stated earlier, coming up with sequels to already established stories is a simpler thing to do and it is capable of drawing in crowds quite easily.
We have already seen the results of this with the upcoming ‘Mallrats 2’ that was announced by Kevin Smith not long after the pandemic began and the countless other projects people believe there should be sequels to. Smith had wanted to work on a sequel to the 90’s hit, but the pandemic was what gave him the perfect opportunity to finally work on the script. Eventually he finished said script and now we are planning to see the movie start production in the, hopefully, not-too-distant future. Smith has gone ahead and already started casting people to return to the film instead of waiting and he has already convinced much of the cast to return. When people enjoy something they worked on, they are definitely more likely to come back for more and this applies with the aforementioned sequels more than anything.
Another comedy movie from the 90’s happens to be the movie ‘Encino Man’ which, while not doing well with critics, has become a popular film over the years because of the premise and characters seen in the film. For those unaware of what the movie is actually about, it tells the story of two teen outcasts trying their best to become popular in school. While digging a hole for a swimming pool in his yard, one of the teens finds a chunk of ice after an earthquake which happens to contain a frozen human man. They soon determine from looking at him through the ice that he is a caveman and they bring him to the garage where they leave the ice block with space heaters. The caveman ends up being revived and they determine that he may just be able to help them become more popular in school when it turns out he is athletic and bizarre enough to interest the other students.
Pauly Shore, Sean Astin, and Brendan Fraser play the main characters in the coming-of-age comedy which took its place as a film from the 90’s people won’t forget. Now that this pandemic has people thinking about future film ideas, Pauly Shore recently announced that he would like to get Astin and Fraser to return for a sequel. Shore became known for the numerous roles he had in the 90’s in a variety of comedies which didn’t do well critically, but have certainly accumulated a decent amount of fans over the years. A sequel to the film would not be too far outside the realm of possibility as all of the actors could still play older versions of their characters. Needless to say, it would be one of those long-awaited sequels that we would have to be on the lookout for because of the original film.
By George Robbins
There is a lot of talk currently going on within the film community right now in regards to films that are supposed to start filming in the not too distant future. There has also been a lot to discuss in the industry when talking about films being worked on now as well. Every single film that is in the works has a lot to think about because the pandemic has made things difficult for just about everybody these days and the film industry is most notably not an exception to that. They have been dealing with having to quarantine their cast and crew for the length of entire shoots as well as following strict guidelines that make filming much more difficult than before. Not to mention the fact that if someone tests positive, an entire production can be shut down.
Despite everything that is currently going on, there are plenty of studios working to get their films worked on so that they will be ready when the pandemic is more under control. The fact still remains that movie theaters can’t really show anything right now because they are either closed or just can’t bring in customers. This has become a point of contention in the film industry since many studios still want their bigger films to have theatrical releases so that they can maximize the amount of money they make from a film’s release. If movies cannot release in theaters, then studios pretty much have no choice but to push back the release dates of their films. Unfortunately, this doesn’t help them with getting their movies out there in any meaningful way and they are left with a back-catalog of films.
Many studios are producing movies that they will not be able to show for quite awhile still and this hasn’t deterred them in any way because it is better to have more films than they can show. If they have more films than they can show, they won’t have to worry about making sure they have something to release should the industry itself suffer and productions can’t happen anymore. Among the studios working to get as many of their films ready before they can release any at all is Marvel Studios who have been announcing for months that they will be working on many films next year. They announced that ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ will be starting filming in January 2021, ‘Ant-Man 3’ will start in June 2021, and ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ will start at the end of 2021. Now it seems they have a window for filming for ‘Black Panther 2.’
‘Black Panther’ was a movie that no one was expecting to be as good as it was and it easily earned its place as one of the best films of the year it was released. Everyone knew that the movie would be one that leaned much more heavily on heritage than any other films, but it does it in a way that shows both points of view of that heritage. Needless to say, the movie ended up becoming one of the more popular Marvel films and we all knew there would be more films to come that are a part of the series. The sequel was announced, like many of their films, a long time ago when they released the names of the next films to appear in the MCU. What we didn’t know at the time is that we would not get to see the original actor play out the role on screen once again after he appeared in ‘Endgame.’
Actor Chadwick Boseman unfortunately passed away not too long ago and that has taken its toll on many different people after it was discovered he was secretly battling cancer. Boseman is remembered for a lot of the roles that he played, but many will often remember him as the titular Black Panther, Prince T’Challa. He played the character with the dignity and grace that he should have been played in and it certainly left its impact that he won’t be able to play the character again. Originally the plan was for the studio to film the upcoming sequel in March 2021, but with Boseman’s passing they have had to delay the filming which will now be filming starting in July 2021 instead. They did this as they now have to recast the main character and it also gives them a better window to start in since the pandemic is delaying so much already.
By George Robbins
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, or MCU, is a very expansive cinematic franchise and it has easily become one of Disney’s most profitable purchases with a large potential for the future. Almost every film in the MCU has been seen in a good light by fans and positively smashed through projected numbers at the box office. It is because of this that the series has been able to release multiple films each year for 12 years and still be able to make more that they know people will end up going to see. This has led to the MCU being established as a very long term franchise that can stay around for many years to come simply due to the amount of source content that is available to them. Being able to make films based on so many heroes and villains from the MCU is something that no one expected and that made it all the more sweet.
The MCU has produced countless films that people have referred to a genre-defining because they most certainly leave a lasting impact. Without the MCU, there was no way of bringing in heroes other than the movies that were being produced here and there in the past. The first ‘Iron Man’ movie completely changed the way that comic book character movies would be done because it gave a solid foundation to a universe many are fans of. Every other film made about a Marvel character up to that point was made independently to try and bank in on characters many people didn’t know much about. Some people may not have even realized that ‘Iron Man’ was not the first film to release which ended up featuring a Marvel character and it only started the hitherto MCU because no other movie had enough of a foundation to do it.
Other Marvel movies that people may have heard about but never thought much about were the ‘Punisher,’ ‘Ghost Rider,’ and ‘Daredevil‘ movies to name just a few. None of those films were ever really able to produce a solid start for a shared universe in the same way that ‘Iron Man’ did because they focused too much on the characters and not how they interacted with a large majority of the world around them. For the most part, the worlds those characters live in can be categorized as separate universes all on their own and this self-containment made it difficult to produce something useful out of the films. Therefore we really do have to be thankful for the release of ‘Iron Man’ for a number of reasons and we really need to appreciate just how well made the movie was. If the film was not as good as it was, we never would have had the MCU begin.
When the MCU began, the question would be just what characters would be able to helm the starting part of the MCU and so they picked characters that could possibly have good chemistry. That doesn’t mean that they all started off being able to work together as ‘The Avengers’ showed. The movie showed that the characters may not have a lot in common and are easy to argue with one another but they all knew what needed to be done and who should be left to what. It is because of this that everything worked out as it did and without the characters that they chose for Phase 1, they never would have been able to succeed the way that they did. Thus, when Phase 2 was announced, no one was sure how that would end up turning out.
While Phase 2 managed to keep things relatively similar to Phase 1 with the characters being shown on screens, it was also the perfect opportunity to expand upon the already growing universe. Hence we were eventually introduced to the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ even though they would not appear for the rest of the heroes until the end of the saga. It is largely due to this that we would be able to root for these characters in their own environment in a different part of the universe while other characters interacted together on Earth. The ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ were unique because unlike other heroes who had been shown on screen by that point, they were a team comprised of five unique individuals. In fact, it would be easy to compare their first movie to ‘The Avengers’ in their own rite because it was a group with nothing in common coming together for a common purpose.
Despite the vast differences between the characters, they all found a common goal to fight for against the evil Kree Ronan the Accuser who was planning on wiping out entire worlds. Even though they were very wary of one another to begin with and they each wanted to succeed with their own goal, they worked together to succeed. Unlike The Avengers, they were a much more ragtag bunch of misfits that worked on their own and didn’t really have anywhere to go on their own. Thus they ended up becoming dependent on one another to the point where they became an effective team the likes of which can kind of rival the Avengers. It is due to this that people found themselves pleasantly surprised by the outcome of the movie and were looking forward to seeing the characters again.
Eventually we ended up with ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ which further increased the size of the group the same way we saw things happen by the end of ‘Age of Ultron.’ This made it even more apparent that they are a force that nobody was anticipating and that they would most certainly be mirroring the Avengers in some capacity. After the end of ‘Endgame,’ people were wondering where the Guardians would be going from that point forward and that answer came in the form of the announcement that they would be in ‘Thor: Love and Thunder.’ After that, they are meant to get their own movie with ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ which director James Gunn promised would change the Guardians forever from that point forward. The upcoming Thor film will be starting filming in January of this upcoming year in order to be ready for its 2022 release window.
‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ is supposed to release around the same time as the next Thor film because of their presence in the upcoming film, but it is unknown if that will remain the case. James Gunn was temporarily let go as director of the upcoming third entry and as a result, its release date was pushed back in order to deal with that whole situation. Eventually, after the protesting of the cast and crew, Gunn was hired back on as the director of the next film, but it has become more complicated because of the pandemic. They weren’t sure about the new release date to begin with so it wasn’t much of a surprise when they said that it would be releasing much later than originally anticipated. With the release now being much later than anticipated, no one knew when they would end up filming for the movie.
We now know that they intended window for filming is near the end of 2021 to try and make sure every other film being worked on will be finished and they can start. Unfortunately this doesn’t leave us with a definitive release window, but it is a strong possibility that the window will now be some time in 2023. If ‘Love and Thunder’ will be releasing in 2022 with a January 2021 start date for filming, this is a fair assumption to make, but we could still see the movie release in late 2022. Either way, we know that it will be starting filming around the same time of year next year round. That being said, everything is still open to change because of the pandemic and filming schedules and releases definitely belong at the top of the list of things that can be affected in some way.
With every movie in the MCU essentially being pushed back because of the long delayed possible release of ‘Black Widow,’ we will be seeing a lot of changes being made on the fly. There are a few MCU films that will be worked on this upcoming year and it will not be easy for the crews to get them done because we don’t know when this pandemic will end. It is because of this that we will not know until we get closer to the start date for production whether they will actually be able to start on time. Leaving it open as just “the end of 2021” affords a decent window where they can actually start working on the film in earnest. Hopefully things will end up working out and the MCU timeline doesn’t get further pushed back as pretty much everything has been delayed by about a year.
By George Robbins
There have been plenty of cheesy horror movies over the years with some of even the most well recognized of films being a part of that list as time has gone on. Among those horror movies that became parodies of themselves over the years have been movies such as the ‘Friday the 13th’ series, the ‘Nightmare On Elm Street’ series, and the ‘Halloween’ series. These movies started off being their own type of horror movies that all fit within the slasher genre, but they are regarded as being very important horror movies. They are horror movies that helped establish the genre and bring it into a new age, but they eventually just started getting ridiculous because the kills in the film became the biggest part of the films. It is due to this that the movies eventually shifted away from telling a story with horror elements to just ridiculously crazy plots with interesting ways for the antagonists to kill people.
While more unique horror movies do exist out there in the world, there are many that came out in the 80’s that defined the horror genre as a whole and among them was the movie ‘Killer Klowns From Outer Space.’ While the premise and plot of the film were ridiculous, this is the exact reason why people fell in love with the movie in the first place and why it became so popular. Ridiculous horror movies are the reason for a lot of the stuff we see nowadays in horror films because they inspired entire generations of films. While the films that we get now may not be as crazy plot-wise as those old films used to be, they definitely take some inspiration from them. This is only if they were trying to take inspiration from them though because movies now are making their own identities.
The horror movies that were made in the 80’s can very easily be split up into two separate groups based on what I have already said which is the group of serious films and the not so serious films. The not so serious group of films had a much larger tendency to be campy films that clearly were not meant for people who did not like horror movies. In order to watch them, you had to have something of a morbid sense of humor because they were closer in relation to black comedies instead of horror movies for the most part. The acting in the films was not really all that great, but a lot of effort was usually put into the set pieces which is what people really like about horror films to begin with. Plots have never taken precedence in horror movies and visuals are the part that a lot of people pay attention to, at least for those older films.
Nowadays we have been gifted various horror films with well-designed plots which no one ever would have expected, but this wasn’t really the case in older horror films. The plot usually just took back seat in those films, but it always catapulted a movie to critical success status if the movie had both well-done plot and visuals. Horror movies are something that is hard to get right because everything in those movies is meant to illicit some kind of strong emotional response from the audience. Whether that be adrenaline pumping nightmare fuel or something that is supposed to keep the audience on edge, it is the response that filmmakers look for from their horror films. In order to try and illicit this kind of response from the audience, filmmakers have tried focusing more on making the plots better in new films in order to better create tension.
Visuals are still very important for getting people to appreciate the film that they are watching and horror movies usually provide some very good visuals, albeit very gory or disturbing in some way. This way of using visuals in movies is what attracts people to horror movies so much because people have an innate morbid curiosity and seeing something morbid in a movie feeds that curiosity. Thus horror movies and shows have become a huge part of modern day entertainment media that always manage to draw people back in even if the plots of said movies aren’t that great. Movies from the 80’s did something that wasn’t really possible before and allowed for more people to enjoy horror movies as time went on. They normalized horror movies in the modern day and created an entire generation of horror fans that have continued to consume horror content since then and that love of horror movies has been passed down over the years.
Campy horror movies of the 80’s may not have received all that great reviews but they have gained cult status over the years due to the ridiculous nature of the content seen in the movies. As mentioned before, ‘Killer Klowns From Outer Space’ is one of those campy horror movies that is just so ridiculous that it has made a lot of people want to see it. It is due to the nature of the film where we see alien clowns land on earth and start killing people that has made this fever dream film all the more endearing. Clowns have been seen as a symbol of fears for many years so making those fears take form in this movie is something that was seen as inventive. It gave an actual reason to people to fear clowns from that point on, but they went a step further with their film by just distorting the figures of clowns even more than they are usually distorted in our minds.
When we have a fear of something we often have the image of that thing distorted in our minds to the point that they start naturally looking horrifying to us in some way. It seemed like they were really trying to capitalize on this distortion to really sell the movie because they purposefully made them look way more terrifying than clowns actually are and people in the movie don’t start taking them seriously until they start killing. Like trying to avoid fears in real life, people in the movie just laugh off the titular Klowns or they ignore them for the most part but it comes back to haunt them in the end. The Klowns make sure that they kill as many people as they can before eventually being forced back into space by the main characters of the film. This movie is easily responsible for creating a lot of fans that enjoy those type of ridiculous horror films.
Plenty of people over the years have been saying that they would like to see a sequel for the film release at some point but the likelihood of that was very low from the beginning. Horror movies often end on cliffhangers in order to leave the audience with an open ending that is filled with suspense, but this also opens up the opportunity for future films. This is how horror movies have been able to come up with sequels over the years and make them naturally fit in with the end of the previous film somehow. As a result of this type of open ending being common for 80’s horror films, people are hopeful that they will get to see sequels to the films they originally fell in love with. ‘Killer Klowns From Outer Space’ is one of the films that has gained the cult status necessary for a possible sequel to be brought about. The original film’s director Stephen Chiodo has said that it could be possible for a sequel to be made if fans ask for it.
It isn’t really all that much of a surprise that asking fans to ask the studio would be the answer to the question of whether there can be a sequel or not. Studios need a good reason to make movies and that reason is often the money that will come out of the movie if people were to go and see it. In this case, it would be a bit more difficult because the film originally only made back about what its budget was at the time and not many people cared for the horror-comedy genre at the time. It has since become a much more popular film in the eyes of horror movie enthusiasts but it is still hard to make a proper case for the film where they will be able to make the movie. Luckily, the horror-comedy genre has become a much more commonplace type of film because it has expanded the overall market.
If ‘Killer Klowns From Outer Space 2’ was to be requested by fans to be made, it would take a fair number of people asking for it before MGM would actually decide to make the film. Even then, it would have to be made on a low budget like the original was because they only have the original film to go off in terms of box office returns so they would be hesitant in making it. However, this could work in the movie’s favor because the original film was made on a low budget and yet people have fallen in love with it over the years. There is a lot of doubt that they would be able to work on it any time soon with the pandemic currently going on, but it would take some time before they were convinced by people to do it anyway. Horror fans are most definitely going to hope that this wish becomes reality but there is no guarantee.
By George Robbins
According to ‘Doctor Strange‘ director Scott Derrickson, all of the movies featuring Spider-Man which have been made over the years could be part of the MCU in some capacity. It is no surprise that this kind of statement would be made considering the vast openness of the MCU as a whole as well as the fact that Marvel films have been releasing before the MCU. Without any other context, movies outside the MCU were movies whose IP’s have been picked up by various studios over the years who only wanted to focus on the individual characters. This is how we ended up with the original Sam Raimi ‘Spider-Man‘ and Fox’s ‘X-Men‘ movies which have held their own fanbases over the years because of the characters. However, their portrayals were eventually considered too far outside of what the characters would be like and they didn’t adapt everything that well.
Many of the movies outside of the MCU have had countless issues over the years because they have been considered to be non-faithful to the original comics. Not only were they outside of normal character personality, but the plots of each film were just considered not good in the end. This eventually led to Sony making a deal with Marvel Studios and Disney so that they could use Spider-Man in the MCU. Eventually Disney would also acquire a sizable portion of Fox and with it, the X-Men intellectual property which may still be a ways off from being shown in the MCU, but the possibility is now there for all to see. When Spider-Man was introduced to the MCU, everything we knew about the character we had seen in previous films had changed and we got a new Spider-Man.
‘Spider-Man: Homecoming‘ was the first major film for the character’s own devoted storyline in the MCU and it blew people away, especially for those hoping for a good Spider-Man story. Sony still retained the rights to the character though and they were never going too let that go, so they continued working on spin-offs. Sony being the hopeful company that it is has been trying to make spin-offs which could eventually tie into the MCU Spider-Man’s story at some point. Of course, people have been wondering for years at this point how that could even become a possibility. It turns out that this may not be as far-fetched as we originally believed it to be because there are more and more rumors swirling around as of late about the multi-verse in the MCU.
For those unaware of what this means, it means that there are multiple universes in the Marvel universe other than just the one we have been seeing in the MCU films. We saw a taste of that in ‘Endgame‘ when they traveled through time and therefore created alternate universes due to what they had done in those timelines. Sony touched upon the concept of a wider multi-verse in their own animated ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse‘ which saw multiple Spider-People being brought to one universe. This has also been mentioned to some capacity in the more recent ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home‘ and although it was a red herring, the possibility still existed somewhere out there. It is pretty much apparent at this point that the Multi-Verse in the MCU does exist though because of the title of the upcoming Doctor Strange sequel, ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.’
As people have learned by now, Doctor Strange is easily one of the most interesting characters to exist in the MCU because he possesses the capability to manipulate reality to some capacity. This makes him all the more capable of being able to move between various dimensions in the MCU and this is made all the more apparent by comments from Scott Derrickson who directed the original movie. Recently, ‘Moon‘ director Duncan Jones made a tweet that asked people to describe themselves with one gif from the MCU while using one from the ‘Into the Spider-Verse’ movie. People on twitter were quick to point out that this animated feature was not a part of the MCU to which Jones asked Derrickson for a ruling on whether this was accurate. Derrickson then responded the Jones is in the right and that, “All Spider-man iterations are defacto MCU.”
Of course this now has fans speculating as to whether this statement will actually hold over with the rest of the Studio’s films because it has been revealed earlier this year that Derrickson would not be directing the next film. He will instead be staying on as executive producer for the film while director Sam Raimi will be taking over as the director of the upcoming Doctor Strange film. Even if it just ends up being a throwaway in the upcoming movie, it wouldn’t be surprising if Raimi did something to confirm this in some way especially since he was the first person to make a live-action Spider-Man. While the movie certainly had its differences from the original comics, the first two films he did brought large crowds of people in and popularized the character. Hopefully he will be able to do right by the characters this time around as well and at least nod towards the possibility that all of those previous films are a part of the MCU in some way.
By George Robbins
George Lucas is well known now for the contributions he has made to the world of cinema, but simultaneously he is known for messing up the things that he has helped create. Arguably the most memorable thing he ended up working on was ‘Star Wars’ which has become one of the most popular franchises to ever exist. It is because of that movie that so many people were given a common outlet for which they could express themselves through and they could find something in common with other people. Lucas would go on to not only make the original trilogy but also the prequel trilogy which has a more cult like following among younger audiences who grew up with it. Now, Lucas is no longer in control of the property and Disney now holds control over the much-beloved franchise.
After Disney took over Lucasfilm, they immediately made it apparent to fans that everything that was taking place in Star Wars canon up to that point was now under their discretion. They released a book which outlined exactly what stuff was being kept from the extended universe and what was going to be called non-canon and thrown to the wayside. Much of what people felt should have been canon in some way has been scrapped and there is now much less from the expanded universe for people to work with. If George Lucas were still in charge, things probably would not have worked out with his ideas for future films but it is interesting to hear about it anyways. After all, while many of his ideas have fallen flat in the eyes of fans, he did make everything possible.
For those who don’t know, George Lucas did actually have some ideas in mind for what he wanted to do if there was ever going to be a sequel trilogy and he has been making it known what he would do. He revealed that he actually planned to have prequel villain Darth Maul return as an underground crime lord for the trilogy and he would be the big bad guy for the whole new trilogy. Now he has said that he apparently set things up so that Leia could be the one who would be known as the “Chosen One” in the sequel trilogy. She would be built up in such a way that she would be the one who would eventually bring Balance back to the force as originally described while Luke rebuilt the Jedi Order. We may have seen a small glimpse of that in the actual sequel trilogy we ended up with, but it is clear that the sequel trilogy we got was nothing like the one Lucas planned on making.
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