The plot points in the prequels were interesting. The script, direction, and acting were all horrific. It makes me really sad to think of what the prequels could have been if they’d been like Andor.
Or if Lucas had done what he did with Empire strikes back. Accept his limitations and hire an outside writer and director who could create his vision while improving it
He originally wanted someone else to direct them. Sometimes I dream of what they could have been if he succeeded in getting another director to pick up the mantle , and that director also brought along a good scriptwriter. We know a lot of those people can act, so I bet with proper direction and writing, they could have actually been good.
I’ve always thought this was a little bit of a disingenuous argument from George Lucas‘s camp. I mean, who did he ask? Steven Spielberg? Ron Howard? Why not dig up the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock while we’re at it?
There would have been any number of really solid directors below that tier, who could have done a better job with the actors than George Lucas did. Hell, Richard Marquand from Return of the Jedi was there as a non guild director from British TV, pretty much specifically and only to make sure that the actors gave reasonable performances, and waddaya know? For all the weaknesses of that movie, The cast still makes it perfectly watchable and enjoyable.
Serious agreement. A better director, and to be fair to Lucas, a director than wasn’t busy dealing with all the new special effect technology, and a bit of work on the script to sell Anakin’s fall to the dark side a bit better and we would have had a solid trilogy.
Haha exactly. Let Lucas do what he wanted to do, which is clearly focus on the new special effects technology, helping with alien and monster creation maybe, and being a kind of universe bible on set. Everything else I would’ve let this hypothetical other director and writer team handle. I’m so frustrated with what could’ve been now lol.
The plot points in the prequels were interesting. The script, direction, and acting were all horrific. It makes me really sad to think of what the prequels could have been if they’d been like Andor.
Or if Lucas had done what he did with Empire strikes back. Accept his limitations and hire an outside writer and director who could create his vision while improving it
Lucas infamously finds ESB to be the most confusing SW movie.
He originally wanted someone else to direct them. Sometimes I dream of what they could have been if he succeeded in getting another director to pick up the mantle , and that director also brought along a good scriptwriter. We know a lot of those people can act, so I bet with proper direction and writing, they could have actually been good.
I’ve always thought this was a little bit of a disingenuous argument from George Lucas‘s camp. I mean, who did he ask? Steven Spielberg? Ron Howard? Why not dig up the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock while we’re at it?
There would have been any number of really solid directors below that tier, who could have done a better job with the actors than George Lucas did. Hell, Richard Marquand from Return of the Jedi was there as a non guild director from British TV, pretty much specifically and only to make sure that the actors gave reasonable performances, and waddaya know? For all the weaknesses of that movie, The cast still makes it perfectly watchable and enjoyable.
Good point. You think he didn’t really try hard enough to find another director? Maybe face up after like Spielberg and one other guy probably?
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Serious agreement. A better director, and to be fair to Lucas, a director than wasn’t busy dealing with all the new special effect technology, and a bit of work on the script to sell Anakin’s fall to the dark side a bit better and we would have had a solid trilogy.
Haha exactly. Let Lucas do what he wanted to do, which is clearly focus on the new special effects technology, helping with alien and monster creation maybe, and being a kind of universe bible on set. Everything else I would’ve let this hypothetical other director and writer team handle. I’m so frustrated with what could’ve been now lol.