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No shirtless Kylo, no like. Sorry those are the rules
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Also missing the young Academy Years
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Also missing the young Academy Years
Happy holidays from the Solos too!
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18. Young but legal, lol. On the AOTC behind the scenes doc she said that as soon as she hit 18 George let her show some skin, lol.
I think the credit attributed to Marcia Lucas for the OT overall has gotten a little out of proportion. She did a brilliant job of reigning in George's excesses on ANH (trench run in particular), and making sure he didn't cut little touches which gave that movie bits of emotional charm (Chewie roaring at the mouse droid and Leia kissing Luke for luck). But ESB is widely regarded as the "best" of the OT, and it happens to be the one that she was least involved with of the three (at least by all accounts I've heard/read). Whether it was Marcia and Gary Kurtz on ANH, or Kurtz and Irvin Kershner on ESB, the 1970's version of George Lucas was more willing to be guided in a collaborative way, IMO.Been watching the Icons Unearthed: Star Wars series and have been struck by things I've never realised all these decades:
Unfortunate (but probably understandable) that George wasn't interviewed for the series.
- Marcia Lucas' editing gave the OT its heart. Without it, the OT might have been like the PT. (Ergo, if Marcia had still been around the PT might have been more like the OT).
- While the OT generation was b---ing about the PT, Lucas was successfully locking in the next generation of fans. Mission accomplished!
- Han was frozen in carbonite because Ford wasn't locked in for the third film. Genius move to put the character in limbo just like the actor!
- The ANH and Carrie casting occurred together, which is why William Katt was almost Luke.
There's still another version of George hidden away in the offices of Lucasfilm in the form of his ST treatment. Lucas wrote that *after* he decided to sell LFL, and did it just to increase the overall value by way of having new Lucas sequel IP. So, with such a short time frame to construct the outline, it'd be perhaps the most stream-of-consciousness Lucas SW.^ Yousa point is well said (as usual!)
For better or worse, the franchise has lasted long enough to show us every eventuality:
OT = filtered Lucas
PT = unfiltered Lucas
ST = total studio control*
* Granted, Abrams and Johnson were given some creative freedom but it was still mainly a Disney/LFL beast
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