"He's a pathetic individual who made a pact with the Devil and lost. "You learn that Darth Vader isn't this monster," Lucas said in a 2005 interview. If the original trilogy told the triumphant story of Luke Skywalker fulfilling his destiny, what if these new films chronicled a darker tale of personal evolution? What if we found out how Darth Vader. As an unnamed studio chief put it at the time, "Somebody else doing Star Wars means nothing George Lucas doing it means everything."īut it wasn't simply that Lucas was revisiting this beloved property more than a decade after Return of the Jedi hit theaters - it was that he had a pretty fascinating idea at its center. When George Lucas announced in 1994 that he was going to work on a new trilogy that took place before the events of Star Wars, there was reason to be hopeful that the man who masterminded this galaxy of Droids and Jedis and Wookiees could recapture that magic. Welcome to This Week in Genre History, where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the world's greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released.Īfter all the opinions rendered, all the tickets bought, and all the memes created, it can be hard to remember that the movies commonly known as "the prequels" were, not that long ago, actually a pretty exciting prospect.
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