Star wars silver screen edition 1.6
Forget finite sequences now it’s about infinite series. That’s not the way the transnational entertainment business works anymore. Kathleen Kennedy, who oversees the Star Wars franchise for Lucasfilm, has produced 93 films in her career. Let me put it another way: If everything works out for Disney, and if you are (like me) old enough to have been conscious for the first Star Wars film, you will probably not live to see the last one. The company intends to put out a new Star Wars movie every year for as long as people will buy tickets. And if the people at the Walt Disney Company, which bought Lucasfilm for $4 billion in 2012, have anything to say about it, the past four decades of Star Wars were merely prologue. It and its sequels (and TV movies and cartoons and toys and bedsheets) burrowed deep into popular culture. The picture that the Lucasfilm faithful relentlessly call A New Hope but everyone else calls Star Wars came out in 1977. It’s a stand-alone story-an “anthology” movie as opposed to a “saga” movie, in Lucasfilm parlance. Knoll’s idea became Rogue One, due out in December 2016. Abrams’ The Force Awakens, the seventh-oops, sorry: VIIth-movie to tell the story of Darth Vader’s family. The one that comes out December 18 is not Knoll’s sci-fi spy story. Apparently that’s how you get to make a Star Wars movie.īut not this movie. “That is a very good idea, John,” Kennedy said. It’s at the beginning of the movie, in the ribbon of text that sets the scene: “Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire’s ultimate weapon, the Death Star.” The plans are the MacGuffin, the thing everyone is chasing. Kennedy got Knoll’s reference, of course. “I just have this very simple idea,” Knoll said, “about the rebel spies in the opening crawl of A New Hope who steal the plans for the Death Star.” This was 2012, and even then, it was pretty clear Lucasfilm was going to make more Star Wars movies. He’s the chief creative officer at Lucasfilm he did the visual effects on the Star Wars “special editions” of the 1990s and a couple of Star Trek movies, among others. So it probably wasn’t a surprise-it was cool, even-when, right after Kennedy took over as head of Lucasfilm, the company George Lucas founded to make Star Wars, John Knoll walked into her office.
the Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones series, the Jurassic Park series. For decades she worked with Steven Spielberg, producing E.T. Kathleen Kennedy has heard a lot of movie pitches.