Welcome to Hollywood Slavebots , a novel column where I ’ll uncover the seedy underverse of scifi Hollywood to show you how money - grubbing studios , unsound contract and bickering execs will change your scifi entertainment future . Thirty class ago , George Lucas changed Hollywood incessantly , with the original Star Wars . Now he ’s attempt to do it again , with a new invigorate Star Wars series , Clone Wars , which broke all the studio ’ rules for how television and picture are created . Click through for details , plus a drift of young Clone Wars concept art .
It ’s no secret that Star Wars is a hard cash machine . You slap a motion-picture show of a swooning saber on a box of Ritz cracker or a footie pajamas and you may bet I will buy ( or already own it ) . So what happens when you take all that reputation and hard earn merchandising money and come out to throw your weightiness around ? You get your own television show that will air it ’s first three episode on the big concealment , scream Clone Wars .
Lucas did just that with his new Star Wars child , Clone Wars . In an clause in the New York Times Lucas described how he get around the common studio system for greenlighting labor .
So he got exactly what he wanted , but the only haul was he had to finance it all himself . Still he managed to get his own television series ( which is appearing on the Cartoon connection and TNT next fall ) and a pic premiere for the first three episode . The President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said it intimately ,
“ He does it in a way that might begin as self - serve and then of course is a bonanza for the whole industry , ” [ he has an]”an intuition that he pig-headedly cling by . ”
What is going to happen if this business mannequin becomes a trend ? It ’s get positive and negative incline . On the cocksure side , had this been institutionalized early on Blade Runner would never have had that god - awful voice - over . Same depart for slews of other scifi movies . No more tacked on studio - sappy glad conclusion or changing the race of a character to reach a particular demographic group . for example , Jurassic Park : The Lost World ’s overbold black daughter of Ian Malcolm , who was clean in the book .
But then you get the impudent side of this argument , like CGI Gopher . You know no one else desire CGI gophers in the Modern Indiana Jones just Lucas , they served no purpose other than to show people his fancy Modern applied science . And sure I ’m excited for Watchmen , no I do n’t want to see 3 hours of it . But if Zack Snyder imposed a “ take it or pass on it ” article , you’re able to bet your last pair of Star Wars pyjama studios would take it .
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