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Chapter One Hundred and Fifty Nine
"So, after Return [of the Jedi] came out and the trilogy ended... well, some fans--and some critics--weren't really happy. You know, George [Lucas] thought we should bring back the Death Star--but that was scrapped, we stayed with the original story.
"Without Han [Solo], and Luke [Skywalker] becoming a user of the... the dark, we had a lot of room for the sequel trilogy. It took us five years to make a new one, but you know, this was a progression from the originals.
"Luke was gone, right, and part of the idea was that he'd be returning, and about his relationship now to Leia and... and Vader. So we needed a compelling Imperial. [Sheev] Palpatine and Darth Vader were dead, so we came up with a new villain--Admiral Trenner.
"We had a lot of ideas about who should play him, and eventually it was decided on Timothy [Dalton]. He was able to portray the... the sort of cunning, Michaevelliousness of the character, which was how he was different from other Imperials in the previous trilogy.
"It was long and... very hard to make, because again this was supposed to be a new step for the saga... and we expected that like Empire and return, not everybody would like it, but that was not what we were thinking when we were making it."
-Gary Kurtz (2000)
"Without Han [Solo], and Luke [Skywalker] becoming a user of the... the dark, we had a lot of room for the sequel trilogy. It took us five years to make a new one, but you know, this was a progression from the originals.
"Luke was gone, right, and part of the idea was that he'd be returning, and about his relationship now to Leia and... and Vader. So we needed a compelling Imperial. [Sheev] Palpatine and Darth Vader were dead, so we came up with a new villain--Admiral Trenner.
"We had a lot of ideas about who should play him, and eventually it was decided on Timothy [Dalton]. He was able to portray the... the sort of cunning, Michaevelliousness of the character, which was how he was different from other Imperials in the previous trilogy.
"It was long and... very hard to make, because again this was supposed to be a new step for the saga... and we expected that like Empire and return, not everybody would like it, but that was not what we were thinking when we were making it."
-Gary Kurtz (2000)
- Israel
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