Star Wars Episode VII ?

That link is anything but convincing...just a load of crap IMO.

*rofl* 60 year old Indy is one thing but a 60 year old Han?? Yeah, sure Unless it's a cameo, pass the torch kind of thing and you don't pay 40 mil for that.

HF turning down 40 mil?
He would never have to work again.
Uhh, I'm not buying it...

If the movies had been filmed in chronological sequence I'm sure someone would have made this comment about Obi-Wan when presented with an announcement that they were making SW: IV after a long hiatus...

Long, long ago in a galaxy not so far away I remember reading that George's concept from the start was for a trilogy of trilogies, with the "original" trilogy being the middle one. So this kind of news isn't really all that off the wall. I've been half-wondering when the next trilogy would get started...

Working title: Grumpy Old Jedi

There's a `pre-production' SW tv series mentioned @IMDB..no movie.

I know this story isn't true.... but one has to wonder how much money Mark Hamill would hold out for.... $250k?

i guess 'ol George is getting hard up for money again. how many more boxed sets DTS enhanced, DVD upscaled all digital versions can the man release of the same movies?

The "art house" Black and White de-colorized version, the 3-D version, the interactive DVD version where YOU get to choose who shoots first....wait....we'd better not give him any ideas.

I've been half-wondering when the next trilogy would get started...

The day after George's funeral. I'll bet his children are all for it, whatever they may claim now.

Asa Chandler always said they'd change the formula of Coke "over my dead body." Goizueta did it shortly after Chandler died. New Coke was a disaster, though it allowed them to quietly replace the sugar in "Classic Coke" with corn sweetener. For whatever this analogy might have to do with Star Wars...

I think the story is BS but with ole George you just never know. But Harrison Ford for whatever reason never gives much respect to his role as Han Solo. It's almost like he wishes he was never associated with it in some of the interviews I've seen. What he continues to forget is without that role he probably wouldn't be acting and worth millions today. Goes to show you what money and fame will do to your ego...

This is total BS, I mean I know George constantly goes back on his own word, but he's been interviewed very recently about this and made it abundantly clear that no such project is in the works.

Did he make abundantly clear as well that he never will?

Were any of the star wars movies released in DTS audio format?

Or were you just being funny?

Be nice...MH has been a gentleman and all-around good guy since he became Luke Skywalker.

sarcasm

As far as I know, and I believe him on this one. He has all the money he will ever need and I think he wants to do something with the time he has left other than Star Wars. And heck, there's that series supposedly, which makes a lot more sense in terms of continuing SW for the fans.

darn.......I wish they were in DTS!

He needs a screenwriting partner too.

Please no...He already butchered up a series I've always held in high regard with the releases of TPM and AOTC.Please don't do any more harm.

This is a very old and persistent myth. It came from an interviewer in the early 80s who asked him if there would be a follow on, after he'd made clear that he had prequel stories in mind but couldn't figure out how to do them technically (why he started in the middle with part IV). He thought about it and said he supposed that he could do something. Later he said he just wasn't interested, and wouldn't do it.

So no, it was never his concept from the start to have nine movies, and he has routinely poured cold water over the idea when it's brought up, but people love to speculate.

Don't forget that there were times long ago where Lucas denied that Episodes 1,2, and 3 would ever get made. Lucas did once say that the whole story is 9 episodes.

I personally think they should make more. I think Lucas should oversee the projects and hire other Directors. With a basic Idea by Lucas, the talented people at skywalker ranch, and a good director, the movies have potential to be absolutely phenominal. I really hope it happens eventually. Roger Ebert has said that he thinks more movies will be made eventually as well.

I do think that Lucas is tired of the whole thing. If you watch any of the documentaries on the DVDs, Lucas seems bored to death. This was unlike how he was in the origional movies. I really think he should keep the whole thing going and just contract out the gruling grind of directing these digital movies. If it does happen, hopefully it won't be 15 years from now.

I'd love to see him team up with Darabont again, and hire him to write the screenplays. As far as directing goes, I've never minded Lucas' direction. It's the choices he makes with his stories that bug me more than anything.

Well there is HD-DVD and Blue-Ray still to come out so don't give up hope just yet

$250K? He'd probably do it for $25 and 10 lbs of hamburger meat.

;-)

Seriously though, he's been given the ultimate Hollywood shaft...typecasting. No one sees him as anything other than Luke and that really sucks. Other than his voice over work for the Batman animated series, I can't think of much else he's done.

He said that he was very tired of SW after ROTJ and it would be a while, if ever, before the prequels came out. It took him 12 years to recharge apparently. But he always had the backstory. He never, not even once, said that the "whole story is 9 episodes". He made an offhand comment about following up with the crew when they were 80 years old when a guy asked him about a follow-on trilogy in an interview, and he probably deeply regrets even making that obvious joke because people have pinned hopes on a next trilogy for the last 25 years on that one line.

He has OTOH, emphatically stated about 2000 times that the six movies we now have are "the whole story". There is no more. Even the upcoming TV show takes place between the trilogies, chronologically, and will just fill in parts of the existing story, which is all about Anakin's turn to the dark side and eventual redemption.

I guess if Tolkien were alive people would be hounding him about a sequel trilogy to LOTR, despite that it wasn't even a trilogy itself originally.

I know what your saying. I got that impression as well in some of the interviews i've seen. Here is a link to the story. They are reporting he turned down 47 million.http://entertainment1.sympatico.msn....etect=&abc=abc

Actually, I remember hearing YEARS ago that he had plans for a three part trilogy (9 films in all). So Sean and John were right about saying that.

However, as bad as part 1, 2, and 3 were, I hope if there is a part 7, 8, and 9 that Lucas turns the reigns over to someone else and he sticks to just being a consultant.