George Lucas Interview - No Star Wars sequels !

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MTV had the chance to interview George Lucas. He talked about the future of Star Wars, ILMâ€™s special effects competition and Indiana Jones 4.

Lucas said that he never indented to make more than 3 movies.

"This was never planned as a nine-episode work," Lucas said. "The media I made an offhand comment, 'It might be fun to come back when everyone's 80 and do another one of these.' But I never had any intention of doing that."

After realizing having written the story for E1-3 in order to tell the story of E4-6, he decided to do the prequels.

"The original 'Star Wars' was only three films, and that was what it was meant to be. After a lot of pondering and thought, I went back to do the back story, but that pretty much tells the story. Episode six is the end. There isn't any more to it."

Asked about the upcoming Episode 3 he said:

"Itâ€™s pretty dark. It's pretty intense. I'm not sure this one is going to end up a PG like the others were."

He also doesnâ€™t seem threatened by other movies with great special effects like the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, or companies like Peter Jacksonâ€™s WETA Digital.

"My company, we sort of pioneered special effects," Lucas said. "We're responsible for the rebirth of special effects in the film business. It disappeared back in the late '50s and early '60s, so we put together a group of kids, started it all over again, and eventually moved into digital. We've been pushing digital techniques and that sort of thing ever since, and we helped populate the special-effects industry as it is today. A lot of supervisors at all the other special-effects companies are from my lab. We even helped set up WETA in New Zealand, and have supported them with advice and that sort of thing."

Lucas also said that he hopes to start shooting "Indiana Jones 4" within 2005, and after that he would like return to independent movies like "THX 1138".

Source: MTV

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