DBWI: Lucas Lives

What if George Lucas had not been killed in a car accident in January 1989? Would he have really made more Star Wars films, and would Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade have been such a success? Many claim the changes made by Spielberg and the hole being Lucas's last film thing, was why it was the highest grossing film of 1989 and earning over $700,000,000 at the box office world wide. Many claim the directors cut of the film, with the prologue scene showing young Indiana, , in fact made the film worse, and should have been left out.
 
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There definitely would have been more Star Wars movies, and I bet he would've lived to become a billionaire. No doubt additional Star Wars films would be massive box office and critical successes.

Brilliant, brilliant man.

(ooc: Nothing I stated differs from OTL, except the line 'and critical' :p)
 
Would he have adopted the grittier approach with the prequels though?

The first one overdid it horribly, but the second one was a big improvement, more balanced in tone. In fairness there was no other direction they could take with the third.

Viewing the films in chronological order you got the impression that Obi Wan was looking back on the Old Republic with a pair of Rose Tinted Spectacles.
The Old Republic was better in many ways than the Empire but you can see where Palpatine got his chance.

What I liked best was the the subtle nods to the Expanded Universe. Except Coruscant, not subtle at all but it was still a nice touch. Would Lucas have done that I ask.

Brilliant cameo performance from Ian McShane as Jorus C'Boath in all 3 films.
 
I didn't really like Star Wars.

That said, i loved The Empire Strikes back, and enjoyed quite a bit (but less) The Return of the Jedi.
Star Wars always felt like... thin soup. You see that there's a nice flavour to it, but it lacks strenght, body. He gets the recipe right in the following movies.

But i noticed a funny trend, something i shudder to think what it would be like if it kept going: in the 1st movie, the climatic battle has only 1 location, the trenches of the Death Star. In the 2nd movie, the climatic battle is split in 2 locations: Luke vs Vader and the battle to rescue Han from Bobba Fett. In the 3rd movie, the climatic battle is split in 3 locations: Luke vs Vader & Palpatine, the Rebel fleet vs the Imperial fleet and the battle to take over the shield generator on Endor.
In the first movie it felt like too little, in the third it felt like my attention had to be stretched a tiny little bit, and only in the second the balance felt just right. What would happen if he had been there for the 4th movie? The climatic battle split in 4? HAHAHA :D just kidding. Who would do that? XD

About Indy3... i loved the prologue from the Director's Cut. It felt a lot more in tune with the pulpy humor of the saga, better than the grittier prologue that Spielberg set up (probably he was already planning the Schindler's List, i bet). Plus you get to know why Indy hates snakes! I feel that the problem is that most of the fans who loved the first movie were kids when they watched it, and by the time of Indy3 they had grown into emo teenagers and everything had to be super-serious and dark and not-childish. :p
 
Well, it was supposed to be a trilogy of trilogies -- nine movies total. I saw the preliminary scripts, and it is just hideously bad.
 
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