hey guys how's it going if you know me you know i love george lucas and what
he's done with star wars and his vision and his overall process of becoming a
filmmaker and funding all of his projects himself
because he didn't want to deal with the major studios
telling him what to do and how to do his movie so today we're going to be going
over an interview with george lucas on how he started star
wars episode 1 and a lot of things that influence him
in his life it's something you may not may not have seen before but it's very
rewarding to watch especially as a fan or aspiring filmmaker or
whatever you may be it's pretty cool if you like george
check it out let's do it
does your personal life influence your writing well
there's no way to write without writing from yourself
i mean you know stuff gets made out of things that you care about
whether you've actually lived them or not there are emotional issues that you
deal with and i think that's always a major factor
with any writer i don't it's hard to write without
being without having some kind of emotional connection to the material
and i've never seen any reason not to it's so easy to write that way it's hard
to write in the abstract so when i write a scene i write a scene
that moves me or i care about her is something that is personal to me this
film is so anticipated do you feel a lot of pressure the fact
that it's so anticipated allows me the freedom to sort of
be creative in the way i'd like to be creative and not have to worry about
what people think you know because on one level i'm gonna get
slaughtered uh no matter what i do and on the other level
you know some people will like it but after you make a lot of movies you
understand that that whatever you do you're gonna get
trashed on one side and some people are gonna love it
okay tell me about your writing process uh toward the end of the day i will
summarize whatever i picked up during that day
and put it into a notepad i will also spend a
small amount of time an hour probably at the most uh working on an
outline of scenes which i'm putting together
which ultimately will have approximately 50 scenes per movie
so i have to basically come up with 150 scenes
and but if i come up with a few a day pretty soon it'll lay itself out and
then toward the end of this process around christmas time i will start
really going through the outline and filling in all the blanks and
finishing it and putting detail on that sort of thing
so that's basically what i'm spending my time doing from now until christmas
then in january is when i actually start the hard part which is to
start writing pages as you write how do your characters evolve uh i have
an idea for a character and usually the character begins you
know the character doesn't come alive and accept its role then
it metamorphosizes into something else or another kind of character or you know
you can take the various drafts of star wars you can find the central characters
they always exist they have given different names they are given different
sizes shapes ages and stuff but the but the
the core of the character uh is still there and
growing it's just trying to find the right
persona to to carry forward that that
personality are you gonna wait until you finish the
script to work with the art department uh no what i usually do is
i get started on the screenplay once you know next february so when i'm
you know about maybe a quarter of the way through a third of the way through
the screenplay then we will hire some graphic artists
designers to start working with me i will tell
them the scenes i'll tell them the clothing i'll tell them the vehicles
i'll tell them the aliens i'll tell them you know all the
major elements that need to be put together they will start them
thinking about those i'll describe them as i
thought of them in the script and then they will go off from there and start
actually doing specific designs that helps me a lot because sometimes
they come up with things that are better than i thought of and it gives more sort
of flesh and blood to some of the
personalities that i've created do you think that you're going to be
able to get closer to your vision on episode one
than you were with the original star wars oh i don't know i i think
uh i hopefully will be able to get uh closer to what i uh am putting down on
the page and what i imagine things to be like
partly i think his age when i was young i had ambitions for something to be
brilliant and when it came less than brilliant i
was very upset about it um and uh i mean
who knows i mean maybe it's better that way
the the things that have come out that came out exactly the way i wanted him to
come out have not been very successful
something i find rather interesting is how he metamorphosizes characters
so if one's not working out for the particular story or the scene or
whatever he takes aspects of that character and
he uses it for maybe another character or puts them somewhere else obviously
what he mentions about that is that in the first drafts of star wars
the original characters were actually called anakin starkiller and luke
starkiller and it was a completely well not
completely but it was quite a different story
anakin was not darth vader and that was actually something that was
supposed to be in the original oh i would say that loosely not the
original but the original episode four script before it
later changed uh in episode five which is that darth vader wasn't going
to be anakin and there was a comic that was later made
from the original original adaptation of star wars
with luke starkiller and anakin starkiller and
the cyborgs i'd love to go through that one day
it's pretty interesting and it shows you how george actually metamorphosizes
these characters and puts them into a
different spin another takeaway from this is the
question regarding whether the prequels episode 1 will be more true
to georgia's vision of star wars than the actual original trilogy four five
and six the reason this is asked is because the
original four five and six weren't truly to george's vision in
terms of the things that he could do because he was so limited with the
technology at the time unfortunately now if technology was where it is at
today obviously or even back in the early 2000s or 1999 the
originals would look much different right talking about
about 30 years plus so technology really changed in that time the things that
george could do such as he was the first one to pioneer mocap
with jar jar so that's something that he brought to
the table george has changed filmmaking for everyone
for the entire industry so when it comes to him
having a vision and not being able to fulfill that to the best of his
imagination with the originals you can just kind of see
or we can kind of wonder what it must have been like
or what it would have been like if the originals had been created
today so makes me think definitely makes me think that that
battle with vader and ob1 would have been much more intense
possibly and that's just merely the beginning this is only the beginning as
duke would say there's so many things that he could
extrapolate on regarding the the cgi and technology in today's world
like look what they're doing with the mandalorian right i mean
now we've got lcds like screens around the actors being changed in real time
from the artists from the digital artists
this makes it easier for the actors to act because they feel like they're
actually on that planet or in that environment
and it makes it easier to edit so pretty cool stuff let's go into the
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