This theory has been floating around the internet lately but intrepid YouTuber Vincent Valentine (probably not the same one from Gaia) has compiled the evidence that fans have put forward for this one. With The Force Awakens just about two weeks away, fans are suggesting that the big villain of the prequel trilogy was actually Jar Jar Binks. When you go over the evidence, there’s actually a pretty compelling case for suggesting that Jar Jar was more than he seemed.
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Star Wars Sure is Different without John Williams
There are a lot of things that you can say about George Lucas. He’s a great visual story-teller. He’s fantastic at pushing the bounds of visuals in movies. That doesn’t mean that he’s perfect. He can’t write dialogue to save his life. He’s not an exceptionally good director. And his overall writing is spotty at best. With someone to help interpret the vision (helping him write or direct) or some other limitation to force him to push the bounds of his creativity, his work absolutely shines. Just look at the Indiana Jones trilogy and the original Star Wars trilogy. Given carte blanche, it turns into the prequel trilogy.
His number one ally in making movies has always been John Williams. The greatest thing that Steven Spielberg ever contributed to film was making John Williams a superstar. But what happens when you take John Williams’ amazing soundtrack away from Lucas? It’s not pretty.
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Spielberg and Lucas Say Characters Will Bring Games to the Next Level
Regardless of what you think about their most recent movies, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg know a thing or two about movies, entertainment and storytelling. So when they start talking about video games, we should probably pay attention.
Both men said that it was the human connection between the players and the characters on-screen that was what video games struggled with the most when compared to other narrative-based forms of entertainment and that was where the next evolution of video games lied.
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The History of LucasArts
LucasArts is and was one of my all-time favourite publishers. They facilitated some great games from when I was growing up like the Dark Horse / Jedi Knight series, Tie Fighter, Rebel Assault (Shut up! I liked it.) and Knights of the Old Republic. That’s not counting the other massively popular LucasArts games like Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion and Grim Fandango.
Victor Lucas of the popular Canadian gaming news show Electric Playground looks back at the history of LucasArts. For a quasi-Easter Egg, watch for a young Geoff Keighley at the 3:34 mark as he worked in his early days in the gaming press.
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The Original Star Wars Story will Be Told in a Comic
We all know the story of Star Wars fairly well thanks to the six movies (soon to be more) and the Expanded Universe. However, as some of you likely know, that wasn’t the original story that George Lucas put to paper.
Now, with the permission of Lucas himself, the original screenplay is being brought back to life in the form of Dark Horse Comics’ upcoming series, The Star Wars.
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