I think Lucas made it clear a long time ago that he has his own idea of what Star Wars is, and isn't much interested in what the fans would like to see.

Namely, cause Lucas is still alive.

Yeah, the whole thing about the prequels and SEs is that those ARE, in Lucas' mind, what Star Wars was supposed to be.

The thing about anatomy is, the neck acts like a filter for all reason. When the neck engorges past the point of the chin, your ability to hear dissenting information is compromised beyond repair.

Hm. That was mean. He's not here, fuck 'im.

He's made billions of dollars and broke box office records with the prequels. He's gotten the only message that matters, loud and clear.

You might. I'd be saying fuck that guy just the same as now.

But if they were remade, it would only mean billions of more dollars, on second thought, maybe he's had enough and the whole thing would be the cinema equivalent of beating a dead horse.

Plus the opening up of the post Jedi continuity for spin off novels and the like not only brings in money with no work on the part of Lucas, but also satisfies some of what people would want in a remake. When Star Wars dies off, either due to over exposure or just changing tastes, then it may be time for a remake. Then again, most of what we'd want to do in one can just as easily be done in an original story...

To be fair Paramount has been almost as open about fan creations as Lucas, and in fact provided the model. Oh, now and then they'll try and reign things in and exert more control, but you only have to look at Star Trek Phase II to see what they'll allow so long as you're not charging (they just released their 5th episode, and have 3 or 4 already filmed ones post production will supposedly finish this year including The Child and Kitumba)

Remake the prequels? No way. We're far more likely to see the original trilogy remade. You can tell that Lucas is just itching to do it. He's clearly a person that's not happy with those films. I'll put money down that the bluray versions coming this autumn will see more unnecessary changes.

I think the prequels were actually too tied down by the originals. There were characters and places that were in them only because they were in the original films. They didn't really need to be there, but because they obviously felt like they had to be in there they had to write around them and it kinda broke the movie. We didn't need to see R2 or 3P0 in the prequels. We didn't even really need to see Yoda. I always imagined that if you got to a certain point in your training you'd have to make a pilgrimage to Dagobah to train with Yoda and truly become a Jedi. You could have just stuck him into a bit in the middle somewhere instead of making him a major character. I also didn't think there would ever be so many Jedi or light sabers. A lot of stuff in those movies - especially a lot of R2 / 3P0's moments - felt like something you'd see in a fan film rather than something you'd see in an official star wars movie.

Actually, those films truly felt like over-budgeted fan films to me in general. Bad writing, bad acting, bad directing, lots of lines and scenes ripped from the originals, lack of consistent tone, etc. Everything about those movies feels fake, from the CG backgrounds and characters to the impractical costumes, stilted and unnatural dialogue and over-choreographed fight sequences. The originals had all of this crazy looking stuff, but it was solid and real and the actors sold it all very well.

Honestly, I tried to like TPM in the theaters and gave it the benefit of the doubt up until 3P0 showed up and spent a good 5 minutes repeating several lines from the original films. At that point I just thought "oh...  that's what this movie's gonna be, then..."

However, I had no idea that Lucas was so cool with his properties. I mean, I know there's a lot of fan films, but I didn't know they were handing out awards for making that stuff. So the only thing preventing fans from remaking the original trilogy themselves is just a lack of motivation, time and money...

Didn't one of you do your own rewrite of the prequels? I'd like to read that. I've thought about rewriting them, but my version would probably be almost entirely different from the ones they made. There's very little in those movies worth salvaging.