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Old 02-07-2008, 10:40 PM   #51 (permalink)
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You seem to forget that the first star wars was an unknown, from a nobody-director, and yet became a smash-hit virtually overnight. Employing those same values for the prequels instead of dumbing it down and smothering it in s/fx would have generated far more income than it actually did.
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Old 02-08-2008, 09:21 AM   #52 (permalink)
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George Lucas was a nobody if you forget about a little film he made in 1973 called AMERICAN GRAFITTI. And the fact he was nominated for an oscar in 2 catagories

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Old 02-08-2008, 10:00 AM   #53 (permalink)
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^ Actually it was his student film THX - 118 that got him notice. he went to turn that short film into a full featuer. it did not do very well, but it did help him to get American Grafitti made, which in turn lead him to make Star Wars.

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Old 02-10-2008, 04:25 AM   #54 (permalink)
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Which was his first major blockbuster...

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Problem is most good space operas kind of happened by accident. Its very hard to do one by design that has the required scope, depth and tone. That, and everything's been *done* already.
Babylon 5 was done by design. JMS had the whole story since mid-80's

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Old 08-09-2008, 04:47 PM   #56 (permalink)
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i think Battlefleet Gothic would make an ace space opera, kick ass ships for all races, the epic size of everything, bording fights, fear of the inquisition, the politics game played by some captains and admirals getting in the way of good captains doing a good job, coruption by chaos, exterminatus, planet invasions,

theres loads of stuff to write about, but would have to writen really well, dark and gritty like it should be, and have good cgi like they have done with BSG.

hell if it went well they could run a series based off gaunts ghosts or a similar squad to show off the land based side of the 40K universe.

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Which was his first major blockbuster...
American Graffiti. 110 million and a budget of only 1.2 million.

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Old 08-09-2008, 08:35 PM   #58 (permalink)
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blast from the past kenetor

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