Just... Wow
Nov. 9th, 2007 12:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alanajoliGeorge Lucas, explained why the Writer's Strike doesn't affect him. Apparently, he hasn't written for years. He showed the interviewer a nifty gadget they used to build action scenes for the prequels.
"Of course, the technology then wasn't quite what it is today. For many of the characters, we still had to use actors, and since the actors needed something to say while they were on the screen, I had to do a little writing here and there. Still," he says, "it was way better than working on the original trilogy. Back then, I had to use a typewriter, or later a word processor, to write a full 120, 130-page script! I hated it so much that after the first one I just hired other people to do it for me. I didn't even read 'em most of the time."
*cries*
The full article is here.
"Of course, the technology then wasn't quite what it is today. For many of the characters, we still had to use actors, and since the actors needed something to say while they were on the screen, I had to do a little writing here and there. Still," he says, "it was way better than working on the original trilogy. Back then, I had to use a typewriter, or later a word processor, to write a full 120, 130-page script! I hated it so much that after the first one I just hired other people to do it for me. I didn't even read 'em most of the time."
*cries*
The full article is here.
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Date: 2007-11-09 08:37 pm (UTC)