>in 1969 George Lucas tried to option John Milius' script for Apocalypse Now, which Lucas wanted to film in South Vietnam while the war was still ongoing
We were robbed of kino...
>in 1969 George Lucas tried to option John Milius' script for Apocalypse Now, which Lucas wanted to film in South Vietnam while the war was st...
>tfw we missed out on lucas going through a dark artist phase and instead we just get star wars onions for the rest of his adult life
we were robbed and so was he.
Just imagine. It sounds incredible.
Fun fact: he actually ended up reusing his ideas for his version of Apocalypse Now when he decided to make Star Wars. That's not a joke, it's in the J W Rinzler book about the making of Star Wars..
>We were robbed of kino...
I just wish he hadn't been stuck making Star Wars for most of his life. I love Star Wars but I wonder what could have been if Star Wars was just a modest success and George had been forced to move onto other things
>George had been forced to move onto other things
Lucas tried for 10+ years to escape Star Wars and ended up making a series of very, very expensive cult films (Howard the Duck (the first Marvel film), Labyrinth, Willow, Tucker: The Man And His Dream, Radioland Murders) and a very expensive Indiana Jones TV series that never caught on even with Millennial nostalgia idiots
Labyrinth was pure unadulterated kino though. Is Tucker: A Man and His Dream any good? I know Coppola made that one and I've liked the two 80s Coppola movies I've seen
>Is Tucker: A Man and His Dream any good? I know Coppola made that one and I've liked the two 80s Coppola movies I've seen
It's an ok script based on a true story. There are gems of cinematography in it, it's very well lit and shot overall. Box office failure though
bump
It's fantastic
Yeah and he didn't direct any of them because he barely enjoys making movies
Young Indiana Jones is kino you fricking homosexual.
i literally opened it on actvid a few hours ago after checking tim roth or someones filmography.
i really like seeing my tastes reflected in glowie posts like this. makes me feel less alone. 🙂
I don't know how true this is, but I get the sense Lucas got tired of directing very early in his career.
Yeah according to the same Rinzler book, yes. Even in the 70s he was talking about Star Wars being possibly the last film he'd ever direct. It's a shame because I get he doesn't 'like' directing but he actually was pretty good. I get that he was friends with Scorsese, Spielberg and Coppola who are literally the greatest directors ever so he might seem a bit anemic in comparison but his actual direction's pretty good on its own merits - just look at American Graffiti for proof
It might have been studio politics that made him disillusioned so early, not the process of directing itself. Just think about how they quasi-shelved American Graffiti for years. When Coppola approached them to use his newly gained fame and influence to help his friend out studio execs played dumb and refused to communicate in an honest, plain way. I think their main concern was that AG might not even bring back the money they invested into it, so Coppola offered them to outright buy American Graffiti for the sum they spent already. Not that he had even the fraction of the money (he silently operated on the "I just directed Godfather(s), somebody will finance it for me!" mindset), it was to "bail out" the studio if they didn't believe in the movie that badly. Essentially, his offer would've ensured they got their money back - they didn't even consider the idea! Once you read enough about the bizarre inner workings of Hollywood and the twisted mentality that dominated it almost from the beginning you're not surprised by any of this. One things is for sure: it could get tiresome quickly, especially if you only want to make movies and don't care about the BS.
Yes! Again, though this according to that Rinzler book, a lot of his disillusion was due to the studios cutting both THX and American Graffiti by several minutes, just because they didn't like/understand it. And the cuts did nothing to the movies other than make them 5 minutes shorter.
I highly recommend the Rinzler books, I've read the Star Wars and Empire ones but he did one for all 6 Star Wars movies. It's really good, it's got tons of behind the scenes pictures, concept art and storyboards, and he used interviews from the time (as in from the late 70s-early 80s - which there were tons of) as his primary source so you do get something closer to the actual recollection of events (time does weird things to memory.) Would recommend
Never forget what they took from you.
Yep. I don't like the prequels but frick me, if you want to know why every decision was made in the prequels just watch the official documentaries. You can watch George making those decisions and explain why in the same scene. It's so transparent it's awesome even if you don't actually like the movies themselves. Meanwhile the behind-the-scenes of the Disney stuff is so sanitized and so "It's about family" that you have no idea what actually happened behind the scenes. I hate it.
Wow what a completely original opinion!
lmao moron
He just plain hates the film industry and wanted to live a quiet life. This is why he's unusually modest for a billionaire and spent most of his wealth on financing films, production companies, video games, etc instead of on himself. He wasn't making movies but he helped other people create art and I appreciate that aspect of him
>Fun fact: he actually ended up reusing his ideas for his version of Apocalypse Now when he decided to make Star Wars
he said in an interview that the Ewoks represented the Viet Cong
He has literally had decades of free time to do anything but make Star Wars. What was he even doing for most of the 90's?
Helping Spielberg make the effects for Jurassic Park then writing/making Phantom Menace. If you're wondering what he was doing in the 80s he was basically funding a movie for every moviemaking friend he'd made in the 60s/70s. Don't get me wrong, I don't think the prequels are very good but Lucas was actually a really generous guy with his wealth and success and not a giant butthole
>I don't like chinks, they're rough and coarse and they get everywhere
underrated
>whiny hippie who simps for the Viet Cong doesn't get to go to Vietnam to meet his "heroes"
Imagine if this dipshit had gone to Vietnam and been taken captive. We would owe the Viet Cong a debt of gratitude for preventing Star Wars.
At least one of the people ITT will be either Mike or Rich
yes
>THX and American Graffiti
are these actually good mobies? its weird to think of george making actual kino without some weird technicality like only being the producer or something
You can't watch THX in its original version anymore but Graffiti is great, one of the best films of the 70s and IIRC it's the one of the original vignette movies, way before Linklater did it.
why did he do it?
that was milius' idea, not lucas'
I do also wish George had a slightly different career, he had one of the greatest in Hollywood history to be fair but holy shit he actually could've done a lot more and that's the weird tragedy of it
Naw he would have put muppets in it