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- Resurrecting Indy took more than a decade of debate, disagreement and compromise among the film's three principals, Spielberg and Ford disliking a way-out-there initial idea Lucas had. "It was the three of us, Steven, George and I, coming to agreement on the central notion of it all," Ford said. "I think the original idea is still a large piece of it in the movie, but it's been developed and worked on in ways that made it a lot more palatable to Steven and I."
- "They wanted to go off on some other tangent. I said, 'I'm not going to do that. I'm going to stick with this no matter what, so we either do this or we don't. That's it.' Finally, we got something that we could all compromise on and all be happy with. It wasn't quite as wacky as I wanted it to be, but it still is subtle and nice and works really well and has the same idea behind it."
- Lucas went through years of grousing and second-guessing by fans who picked apart his "Star Wars" prequels. He expects the same on "Crystal Skull," saying it's impossible to satisfy hardcore fans.
I'm *really* looking forward to #4, and the fact that HF and SS made GL tone it down gives me hope that it will have been worth (at least some of the 19 year) wait.
(I'm not a hardcore SW fan, but I *did* quite enjoy the SW, TESB, and ROTJ. Ep.1 was passable, I've yet to see all of Ep.2 - I've fallen asleep each of the four times we've had it on, and couldn't bring myself to be disappointed further with ep.3. George... people criticized those three movies not because they were hardcore fans, but because they were dreck.) |
