What did you think of Anakin? The original Star Wars franchise changed Hollywood and popular culture forever, so when Fox got the hint that George Lucas would make three more in the 1990s, they couldn't help but be excited... Until they found out you'd meet Darth Vader as a kid. In the new Taschen book, The Star Wars Archives: 1999-2005, George Lucas talks about how stressed the execs were when they found out his return to the franchise was going to track how Vader became an evil Sith lord. According to Polygon: "When Lucas initially told 20th Century Fox that he was making the story of how Anakin became Darth Vader, they were as excited as anybody else. Then he told them that, in the first film, Anakin would be 10 years old. ‘You’re going to destroy the franchise; you’re going to destroy everything!’ Lucas explains that he told people at Lucasfilm he was ‘making a movie that nobody wants to see,’ but would rather do that than telling the same story over and over. And to be fair to George, it still made a billion dollars.” Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 24 November, 2020