GuessWho

If George stayed involved, we may have had these two Darths

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/featur...ostPageIndex=2


Darth fuckin' Icky.

Solid Snake

Jesus. Charlie Rose was coming on kind of strong. I've never seen him be that strong w/ someone.

TGM

meh. The Force Awakens might not be a perfect movie, but it's the best Star Wars movie since ESB. Eventually someone will leak the rough drafts of Lucas' proposed sequel trilogy and we'll all be pissed that we weren't able to see more Viceroy's talking about trade federations and senate hearings on the big screen.

Mr. Lucas, thank you so very much for creating Star Wars. It is something that has been burned into my soul ever I was a little kid. But now, you can just stfu.

dsa_shea

Darth Icky? That would have been the end of the series. Jar Jar vs Darth Icky for supreme control of the galaxy.

Brack

That's insanius.

Josh-da-man

Darth Icky?

Jeezus.

joe_b

I just got The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens book. The various concepts are divided by month to show how the look of the movie evolved. I've been combing through it looking for clues that might paint a picture of what Lucas intended based on stuff the art department was producing before Arndt (and presumably George) departed. Much of this early work is described as "exploratory" concepts, but a few things seem to reoccur over various pieces:

- Felucia (the exotic planet where Aayla Secura was shot down by clone troopers in RotS) is featured in several paintings. The Falcon is depicted as being parked in a canyon there.

- Heroes are named Sam and Kira. Sam is painted like a young Han Solo (similar outfit and blaster) and Kira looks just like Natalie Portman with a green lightsaber.

- Painting of the Falcon flying over Felucia with a giant jellyfish-looking blob attached to the front.

- Female Twi'lek Sith with red skin and black tattoos (Maul 2.0?)

- What looks like B&W storyboards of the Twi'lek seducing a Jedi and taking his saber.

- The Emperor's throne room from the second Death Star is at the bottom of an ocean. This is where the map to Luke is found (maybe hidden in the green saber he threw away?)

DthRdrX

I even found a picture of the planned Darth Icky.

Brack

Darth Icky:

DthRdrX

There was a scene filmed of Leia talking to the New Republic Senate and trying to get them to take the First Order threat seriously. I'm betting that was cut simply because of how badly the political nonsense was in the PT.

Mike86

Yeah I really don't get Lucas at this point. If he didn't want someone else in control of Star Wars he shouldn't have sold the rights to Disney plain and simple. All I can say is thank the fucking lord that he isn't in charge anymore. Darth Icky and Darth Insanius are seriously two of the names he came up with for potential villains? The guy is off his rocker and I can only imagine that we would have gotten shit as bad or worse than the Prequel Trilogy if he was still involved. The Force Awakens may not be a perfect film but it revived the franchise from being seen as subpar after the prequels to opening the doors for better things to come.

stvn1974

Disney raped George Lucas' Star Wars.

Mike86

Its funny because seemingly that's the way that he feels. I think ultimately it burns away at him that fans are more satisfied with the vision that Disney and Abrams went with when a lot of the same fans hated what he did with the Prequel Trilogy. I think Lucas has a bad case of tunnel vision and can only see things his way to meet his grand vision for the franchise (even though it seemingly is always changing) and doesn't have any desire to please the fans.

Super X

Considering how much Disney paid, it would be more apt to say that Lucas pimped Star Wars out to Disney.

DthRdrX

The kicker must be that he already had enough money than he would ever need before selling. I don't know why he just didn't hire someone to film exactly what he wanted.

JeremyM

I thought Disney paid fair market value, but man, now I think they got the steal of the century.

JeremyM

Interesting. I need to get that book. I have all the others but I've tried to stay low key this time around and go easy on the merch. But that sounds interesting.

Sean O'Hara

And they haven't even tapped into Lucasfilm's other properties.

JeremyM

Willow? Ha ha. But didn't the deal include ILM, THX, etc? All appeared to be doing well. And the last Indy made a boatload. This next one will likely do a lot, too.

joe_b

I only pre-ordered it because Amazon had a 30% off coupon for books last month, but I'm glad I did. It nicely put together and the pages are high quality.

BTW, I wonder if the idea of possibly bringing back Felucia was a response to "Avatar" with all the luminescent plant life. The book also describes a scene where Sam/Finn is rescued by a clan of primitive aliens who perform a cleansing ceremony (complete with tribal paint) to make him "reborn" after escaping life as a stormtrooper.

Josh-da-man

The Emperor's underwater throne room sounds like it comes from one of the earlier drafts of the J.J. Abrams film where they returned to Endor to find something in the Death Star II wreckage.

I would be really interested to see George Lucas' outlines for his own sequel trilogy.

Timber

Seriously, this guy is insane. Different spaceships and planets? Really???

milo bloom

Which I'm pretty sure you can clearly see on his belt on Endor at the end of the movie.

GuessWho

Your insight serves you well.

sherm42

And it's BS too. If Lucas wanted all of the films to look different, why did he alter the OT to try to match the looks of the prequels, adding planets you only saw in the prequels?