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Good day to you, George. Hope this reaches you. For over twenty years, I have enjoyed the Star Wars world. I have seen all Star Wars Episodes 1 - 6. Read most of the Del Ray published novels on Star Wars of which I know you have some input here. And truly enjoyed them. After a while the story grows up with me. It has become a part of life.
I have read your interviews and I hope you can respond to my comment and question: Most fans of the epic will all have their inputs and say about what direction Star Wars should take beyond 2009 as I am sure you will agree. Personally, I like the direction the stories have unfolded in Del Ray publications up to the Legacy of the Force book series.
I had hoped that any more Star Wars movies (Star Wars Episodes 7, 8 and 9 and beyond) would work closely along the stories and time line as set out by the various Star Wars book series here, granted you may have your own set of ideas about certain events, but as you say, you don't spent a lot of time involved in "Star Wars" as there are aspects of life such as business and family.
But take it from me, however small my opinion might be, you can't go wrong and who knows where maybe 50 years from now, where all this might be heading, at some point somebody perhaps with your blessings, will take up the mantle and continue with this epic and make it apart of life for all those future Star Wars fans. Thanks and may the FORCE BE WITH YOU.
George Lucas: I'd like for you to know that your opinion is important to me. We are very, very desperate to get fans to read the Star Wars novels and comic books. Few fans are willing to read the Star Wars expanded universe. I appreciate your support over the past two decades. It means a lot to me. I would also like to say that Star Wars does consume a good portion of my life.
When I'm at work each day, Star Wars takes up 5 to 6 hours of my day. What I want the fans to know is that I don't spend 24 hours a day working on Star Wars. My name is not Mr. Star Wars. I invest most of my time with my family and girlfriends. However, I still do have many hours invested in Star Wars each week mainly as related to the Star Wars TV series.
However, you should realize I have nearly no involvement with the creation of the stories for the Star Wars novels and comic books. My employees at LucasBooks are behind what you see in those literature. None of the Star Wars novels or comic books represent my personal vision of Star Wars. The adventures you read about the time after Return of the Jedi are not my ideas. Star Wars Episodes 7, 8 and 9 will be based on my original ideas.
Not much from the Star Wars novels or comic books will be included in the next Star Wars film trilogy. Eventually, my children will have control over Lucasfilm because I will one day no longer be alive. The future of Star Wars is whatever my children want it to be. You need to convince my children to make the Star Wars novels and comic books into films because I'm not going to do this during my lifetime.
Mr. Lucas, on the next three Star Wars movies, are you going to have fight scenes with Princess Leia using the Force? Will you show more female Jedi? It would be nice to see a female Jedi kicking **** and not dying. This will give female fans a reason to cheer and wanting to see more.
George Lucas: Most of the Jedi seen in Star Wars Episodes 7, 8 and 9 will be male. Princess Leia will be a Jedi Master in Star Wars Episode 7 and you will see her in many light saber battles.
Love the Star Wars The Clone Wars TV series on the Cartoon Network. Me and my kids never miss it. It's becoming a Friday night family thing. I was also wondering how the TV ratings are doing and making sure you are planning on another season? Also has any other TV networks showed interest in airing besides the Cartoon Network?
George Lucas: The Nielsen TV ratings for the new Clone Wars TV show have been satisfactory. I'm not going to give the exact numbers, but it's sufficient to make the Clone Wars the most successful TV series on the Cartoon Network, which has agreed to broadcast Season 2 of the Clone Wars in Fall 2009. There's not much interest in other TV networks regarding Star Wars. It's going to be extremely difficult to find the right TV network to air the live action Star Wars TV series.
Dear George Lucas, I have read ideas for a homage to Indiana Jones. And I have my own idea. When the Dark Jedi attack, Han Solo has a holocron and drops it and a Dark Jedi locks eyes with Han and the Dark Jedi is swirling his light saber or light whip around like the swordsman in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. And then Han just shoots the Dark Jedi and retrieves the holocron. Thanks for your time.
George Lucas: Every week I spend some time working on the plot outline for Indiana Jones 5. Yet I don't know if Indiana Jones 5 will ever happen. It took nearly 20 years to complete Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It's best to take this process one film at a time. It's possible a Mutt Williams film could happen before Indiana Jones 5.
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George, I read an article this morning about watching TV in contact lenses. This would be about another 10 years. Do you think that in the future that guns could be made into laser blasters and swords could be made into light sabers? If so, how would you react to this if this was to happen? After all, the light sabers are pretty powerful, and if they were made, they could kill thousands of lives. Also, do you think that we could end up having "the Force" too? Please reply back! Thanks!
George Lucas: I've talked about this often, but I really do believe that soon artificial machine intelligence will control the Earth and then eventually the entire Universe. Mechanical beings will be superior to Humans in every way that can be imagined. We will either become machines ourselves or else we will no longer exist when the machines take over reality.
These machine monstrosities will create weapons beyond our ability to understand. It will be far beyond simple energy projectile and plasma blade weapons, which you suggest. SuperShadow has explained many times that a civilization that moves passed the technological singularity will be a godlike society that we can't even begin to grasp with our pitiful minds.
Is the start of the 2nd season of the Star Wars The Clone Wars TV series going to continue right after the first season or is the 2nd season going to air in October?
George Lucas: The Cartoon Network doesn't want to broadcast Season 2 of the Clone Wars immediately. They want to have new episodes for their Fall 2009 Friday night line up of television shows. Season 1 of the Clone Wars finishes in late March 2009.
This means Season 2 won't begin until September or October 2009. The Season 2 episodes are already completed, but because of our agreement with the Cartoon Network we can't release the next episodes on the official Star Wars web site before they appear on the Cartoon Network.
Dear Mr. Lucas. First of all, thank you very much for everything Star Wars related through the years. I appreciate it. Since you shot Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith digitally on high definition video tape, I wanted to ask you if there is a completely digital "master" of The Phantom Menace somewhere at Lucasfilm or is it still on celluloid?
And if so, do you plan on digitizing all of the footage from Star Wars Episode 1? I would also like to know if digital "masters" of the Star Wars original trilogy exist, and if not, do you plan on digitizing them? A few more questions: Has location scouting started for Star Wars Episode 7?
And if not, do you think that Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City, Mexico and/or the pyramids of Teotihuacan near Mexico City could be used for scenes in the new Star Wars movie trilogy, but with digital enhancements, of course, to make it seem more Star Wars like? Thanks.
George Lucas: First, I'd like to sympathize with your situation in life. You have written me often relating how things are extremely bad for you all the time. Don't ever give up even though life is hopeless for you. Second, some people can't be successful in life because they don't get the necessary breaks and good fortune you need.
The world is not out to get you, but it may seem like everyone conspires against you all the time. Third, I can't give money to individual fans to make them winners because there are too many fans. If I donated money to the very, very needy like yourself, I would end up with no money at all. You will be in my daily prayers. I'm thankful to be me and not you.
As for your question, I have hundreds of digital and regular film copies of the seven Star Wars movies, which are in a perfectly preserved condition. I learned from the mistakes of the past. Neither Lucasfilm nor 20th Century Fox took the necessary steps to preserve the master copies of the old Star Wars films.
As a result, when we tried to make pristine film prints for the Star Wars Special Editions in the 1990's, we had to spend many, many millions of U.S. dollars restoring the deteriorated film prints from 1977, 1980 and 1983 into something that could be watched in a high quality format.
Dear George Lucas. I have been wondering something for a long time and hope you can explain this to me. Through out the Star Wars movies, Anakin Skywalker is shown as the chosen one. But Obi-Wan defeated Anakin in Star Wars Episode III. I just wonder if Obi-Wan was the chosen one instead because Mace Windu said so the prophecy says, then Yoda said about a prophecy that could have been misread. Just my thoughts, but I still accept Anakin as the chosen one.
George Lucas: Well, in general, prophecies are nonsensical in many ways. I don't explain the Jedi prophecy in extreme detail in the Star Wars films. I've discussed this topic with Shadow at great length and he has advised me to never reveal what is really going on to the fans. What I will say is that Anakin fulfilled the prophecy by destroying the Sith Order at the conclusion of Return of the Jedi.
If you want to believe that Obi-Wan, Yoda, Luke Skywalker or some other character is the chosen one, then that's acceptable to me because the Star Wars films don't specify who the chosen one really is. It will remain an unknown mystery for eternity.