We all know that the Star Wars prequels haven’t gotten a lot of love from some of the fans over the years. But, after seeing the most recent trilogy produced by Disney and Lucasfilm, I actually respect those films a lot more because at least they tell a cohesive story as a whole. The story for the prequels was also amplified with The Clone Wars series.
RPG designer Scott Malthouse started a Star Wars conversation on Twitter to say something genuinely nice about the prequels and Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson jumped in to offer his thoughts on the prequel trilogy, saying:
“Lucas made a gorgeous 7 hour long movie for children about how entitlement and fear of loss turns good people into fascists, and did it while spearheading nearly every technical sea change in modern filmmaking of the past 30 years.”
Lucas made a gorgeous 7 hour long movie for children about how entitlement and fear of loss turns good people into fascists, and did it while spearheading nearly every technical sea change in modern filmmaking of the past 30 years.
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) June 29, 2020
Yeah, that’s something you can’t really argue with. The prequel trilogy came up recently on Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian by the team of The Mandalorian. They discussed George Lucas pioneering new technologies and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy explained why Lucas decided to direct the prequel films himself.
“With anybody like George, and anyone who’s a filmmaker, they get antsy after a while at not being able to be on that floor telling stories, making movies,” she said. “And his love of pushing the technology, obviously, we were doing a certain amount of that with each of the Indiana Jones movies, but it wasn’t like Star Wars, and I think that each time we would push the technology, in making those movies, he got the bug to start thinking about what that might mean for Star Wars.”
Dave Filoni also went into a crazy awesome deep dive into the prequel films, specifically the final lightsaber battle in The Phantom Menace that saw Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi fighting Darth Maul. If you haven’t seen what he said about that, you need to do that now! You can read it here.
We can go ahead and get this conversation going on here. What is a genuinely nice comment that you can make about the Star Wars prequels?