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MONDAY NOVEMBER 29 2004 6:02 PM

Lucas Wants Christmas Special Banned

Submitted by jake_lex

Edited by Christopher

Unable to slap some new CGI onto the 1978 "The Star Wars Holiday Special" to make it fit his "original vision," Lucas is calling for the special to be completely banned.

Moviemaker George Lucas wants his first Star Wars sequel banned, as he is so disappointed with its quality. The one-off, two-hour-long The Star Wars Holiday Special was originally screened on the CBS network in 1978 and tells the story of Chewbacca's journey home with Hans Solo to celebrate Life Day with his family. During the course of the much-maligned movie, Carrie Fisher's beautiful Leia is seen reducing Hans Solo and Luke Skywalker to tears with a song. A contributor on the Star Wars website comments, "The Holiday Special has always been the red-headed step child of the Star Wars family." While a source at LucasFilm adds, "The Holiday Special was the biggest f***-up ever. The Force was definitely not with Mr. Lucas the day that doozy was born."

One wishes he'd come to the same conclusion about the first two "prequels" which have done far more damage to the name Star Wars than the TV special.

Once again we see Lucas exercising creative control that Stanley Kubrick would have called megalomaniacalhe's not only changing parts of his films and denying fans the original work, but he's also attempting to entirely blot-out parts of his resume.

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Comments

Cigarette

Cleveland, OH

April 2004

NOV 30, 2004 04:53 AM

crucifiedalien said:
QUESTION: What is Lucas' take on the Ewok movies? Did he approve them? There are what...2 or 3 of them?

Whatever, yo, the Ewok movies were tight.

Idjit

HOPEFUL

I'm lost

NOV 30, 2004 05:43 AM

fadinghope said:
george lucas is the A#1 hack of hollywood. how do you build a saga and then flush it down the toilet like a used tampon?

This is commonly referred to as "laughing all the way to the bank".

Snottlebocket

Netherlands

March 2004

NOV 30, 2004 05:49 AM

im not sure about this but was lucas even really involved with the holiday special, i vaguely remember something that it was a iniative of all the cast and crew since they still had all the costumes lying around right after shooting a new hope so they wanted to make something fun together, Lucas was just like sure whatever go make your holiday thing.

fiendish

USA

December 2002

NOV 30, 2004 06:35 AM

never heard of it.
sounds crappy thou, a ploy to sellmore starwars toys and crap.
a black eye for the star wars franchise I can see why george lucas would want to stop the sell of it I would want to too also I didn't care much for the ewoks movies either another money ploy had absolutely nothing to do with luke skywalker or the empire.

a star wars musical hahaha craptastical.

p.s. why do people think the new episodes are bad when the characters, and story is way more developed and explained in episodes 1,2,3 compared to episodes 4,5,6 which was about luke skywalker and ohya that rebel vs empire stuff nothing is really explained about why the "good" rebels are the fighting the "evil" empire