For sci-fi fans: WI there is only one Star Wars?

luakel

So in summer of 1977, George Lucas is happy over the triumph of Star Wars, and is already thinking about a sequel. That is, until he dies in a car accident after a night of celebrating. What happens without the rest of the SW saga, at least as we know it in OTL?
 

NapoleonXIV

Banned
Somebody else writes it. The movie begged a sequel and had been outrageously successful. I don't think ASB's could keep Hollywood from making another.

OTOH maybe Luca's had an iron grip on the copyright and the fans start a movement that another will be disrespectful.

In that case SW becomes a sort of technical/artistic icon. It's reshown over the years and becomes a teaching tool for a whole slew of imitators, like Nosferatu to vampire movies.

Either that, and/or it becomes like Rocky Horror, with people dressed as Vader and Leia getting up to attack the screen at midnite showings.
 

zoomar

Leej said:
They would probally still do it with someone else in that situation...
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But it very probably would have headed off in a significantly different direction than Lucas imagined it. It is hard to imagine a set of studio execs and hired director would have kept the Skywalker family plot twists the same as Lucas did over the next 2 movies. I suspect sequels would have just been more of the same...and quite possibly Darth Vader would not have reappeared.
 

mattep74

What if he dies while making ROTJ. Who would step in to finish it?

If he dies in the 80ths he would be remembered as a icon, he will not be remembered so after the prequells
 

pieman3141

I don't recall George Lucas actually writing the screenplay/script for ANH and ESB. IMDB says Lucas "wrote" ANH, but I don't know which part. For ESB, Kasdan wrote the screenplay, so the other guys can still easily pick up the movies... although the story might be modified by a lot.
 

Fearless Leader

Donor
IIRC George Lucas had the entire "story" more or less all mapped out before he started ANH. Mind you not concretely. My guess would be that after Lucas' death Star Wars remains a stand alone film well into the 1990's. Star Wars is big, but nowhere near as big as OTL. Finally in the early 1990's one of Lucas' relatives is pouring over old Uncle George's files when he discovers the overall plotline for Star Wars. He then goes and sells said plotline to Universal or Warner Bros. or some company like that. In order to appease the fairly large fanbase that accompanies the Starwars name, the writers decide to stay as close to the script as possible. In an effort to promote continuity three Star-wars films are planned and filmed consecutively. Starwars IV, V, and VI arrive in theaters in 2001, 2002, and 2003 respectively. The prequels meanwhile are turned into a highly profitable TV series lasting 8 seasons and succeeded by yet another series chronicling the events after the trilogy.
 

Mike Stearns

pieman3141 said:
I don't recall George Lucas actually writing the screenplay/script for ANH and ESB. IMDB says Lucas "wrote" ANH, but I don't know which part. For ESB, Kasdan wrote the screenplay, so the other guys can still easily pick up the movies... although the story might be modified by a lot.
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George personally wrote the scripts for all but two of the movies, ESB and ROTJ.
 

ColeMercury

ESB would happen pretty much as it already happened, since Lucas didn't have much to do with that movie anyway. On RotJ he was apparently calling all the shots (he might as well have been director & writer), so that could turn out differently - in fact, they might have kept going with the plan to make it nine movies rather than six. All the other movies would've turned out quite different.

Or they might have just stopped at "Star Wars", in which case it'd be viewed as a classic film but not have the same widespread appeal today.
 
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