10 Episode One

Chapter 10 Episode One In the years since Return of the Jedi, Star Wars had never really gone away. In 1978, George oversaw the publication of Splinter of the Mind's Eye, a novel by Alan Dean Foster that took place in the Star Wars universe. In 1987, West End Games introduced a role- playing game. The games filled in details about the universe that George approved and then handed over to other writers. In 1991, Timothy Zahn wrote Heir to the Empire, and the book kicked off a new wave of Star Wars enthusiasm. More books followed. By the time George announced his plans to make more Star Wars movies, their universe had become bigger, more complex, and even more beloved.

在《绝地归来》之后的这些年里，《星球大战》从未真正消失。 1978年，乔治监督出版了艾伦·迪恩·福斯特（Alan Dean Foster）的小说《心眼碎片》（Splinter of the Mind’s Eye），故事发生在星球大战的宇宙中。 1987年，西区游戏公司推出了一款角色扮演游戏。 游戏中填充了George认可的宇宙细节，然后将其转交给其他作者。 1991年，蒂莫西·扎恩（Timothy Zahn）写了《帝国继承人》（Heir to the Empire），这本书掀起了新一轮的《星球大战》热潮。 随后又出了更多的书。当乔治宣布他计划拍摄更多的星球大战电影时，他们的宇宙变得更大，更复杂，甚至更受欢迎。

The three new movies George planned were prequels, the action taking place before the stories in the earlier films. To finance the new films, he decided to rerelease the original trilogy in theaters. Hollywood was skeptical. Why would people buy tickets for old movies? The first three had come out twenty years earlier. All had already been shown on television. But once again, Hollywood was wrong. Fans waited on long lines to see them again. Many adults who had loved the movies as kids were now taking their own children to see Star Wars. People brought their old lightsabers.

乔治计划的三部新电影都是前传，情节发生在前几部电影的故事之前。 为了给新电影提供资金，他决定在影院重新发行原来的三部曲。 好莱坞对此持怀疑态度。为什么人们会买老电影的票？ 前三本书出版于20年前。 所有这些都已经在电视上播出了。 但好莱坞又一次错了。 粉丝们排长队等待再次见到他们。 许多小时候喜欢看电影的成年人现在带着自己的孩子去看《星球大战》。 人们带来了他们的旧光剑。

THE PEOPLE VS. GEORGE LUCAS THE 1997 RELEASES WERE DIFFERENT FROM THE ORIGINALS. GEORGE HAD CLEANED UP THE PRINTS OF THE FILMS AND ADDED MORE SPECIAL EFFECTS. IN SOME PLACES HE'D TWEAKED THE STORY. NOT ALL FANS WERE HAPPY WITH THE CHANGES. BUT AS FAR AS GEORGE WAS CONCERNED, THESE "IMPROVED" VERSIONS WERE THE ONLY ONES. HE HAD NO PLANS TO RELEASE THE MOVIES IN THEIR ORIGINAL FORM ON DVD. MANY PEOPLE FELT HE WAS TAKING AWAY MOVIE HISTORY AND CHANGING THE WORK OF OTHER PEOPLE, LIKE THE ORIGINAL SPECIAL-EFFECTS CRAFTSMEN. FANS ARGUED THEIR CAUSE PASSIONATELY ON THE INTERNET. THEY HAD GROWN UP WITH THE STAR WARS MOVIES. THEY WERE SUCH AN IMPORTANT PART OF FANS' LIVES, THEY FELT THE MOVIES BELONGED TO THEM IN A SPECIAL WAY, AND THEY DIDN'T WANT THEM CHANGED. MANY FANS OVER THE YEARS HAVE EVEN MADE

1997年版的《人民大战乔治·卢卡斯》与原版不同。 乔治清理了电影的照片，并添加了更多的特效。 在一些地方，他对故事进行了修改。 并非所有粉丝都对这些变化感到满意。 但就乔治而言，这些“改进”的版本是唯一的。 他不打算以dvd的形式发行这些电影的原版。 很多人觉得他是在拿走电影史，改变其他人的工作，比如原来的特效工匠。 粉丝们在网上激烈地争论他们的理由。 他们是伴随着《星球大战》电影长大的。 他们是粉丝生活中如此重要的一部分，他们觉得电影以一种特殊的方式属于他们，他们不希望他们改变。 多年来，许多粉丝甚至做出了

THEIR OWN FILM AND VIDEO TRIBUTES. GEORGE HAS ALWAYS ENCOURAGED THEIR CREATIVITY, EVEN MAKING THE OFFICIAL MOVIE SOUND EFFECTS AVAILABLE ONLINE. IN 2010, A DOCUMENTARY EXAMINED THE ARGUMENT FROM BOTH SIDES. AS THE CREATOR OF STAR WARS, GEORGE BELIEVES THE MOVIES BELONG TO HIM, TO CHANGE AND ADAPT IN WHATEVER WAYS HE FEELS ARE BEST.

他们自己的电影和视频致敬。 乔治一直鼓励他们的创造力，甚至把官方的电影音效放到网上。 2010年，一部纪录片从双方的角度审视了这一论点。 作为《星球大战》的创作者，乔治相信电影属于他，可以用他认为最好的方式来改变和改编。

Star Wars was rereleased on January 31, 1997. Empire was released three weeks later, and Jedi three weeks after that. The films topped the box office once again, earning $138 million, $67 million, and $45 million, respectively. On May 19, 1999, the first of the prequels, Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace, opened in theaters. This time, no one was surprised when it broke box office records. It spawned popular video games like Star Wars: Episode I—Racer, which let players pod-race like young Anakin in the movie. Phantom Menace was followed in 2002 by Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith in 2005. George directed all three films himself, and his children appeared in small roles.

《星球大战》于1997年1月31日上映。 《帝国》三周后上映，《绝地武士》三周后上映。 这两部电影分别以3800万美元、700万美元和500万美元的票房收入再次登顶票房榜。 1999年5月19日，《星球大战》前传的第一部《星球大战前传1：幽灵的威胁》在影院上映。 这一次，当它打破票房纪录时，没有人感到惊讶。 它催生了一些流行的电子游戏，比如《星球大战：第一集：赛车手》（Star Wars: Episode I-Racer），玩家可以像电影中年轻的阿纳金（Anakin）一样进行豆荚比赛。 《幽灵的威胁》之后是2002年的《克隆人的进攻》和2005年的《西斯的复仇》。 乔治亲自执导了这三部电影，他的孩子们也出演了一些小角色。

The three prequels tell the story of how Luke's father, Anakin Skywalker, became first a Jedi hero and then, tragically, the evil Darth Vader, who is the villain of the original trilogy. In the first film, The Phantom Menace, Anakin is a ten-year-old slave on Luke's home planet of Tatooine. The actor Hayden Christensen portrayed Anakin as a young man in the second film, Attack of the Clones. As a boy, Hayden had played at being a Jedi Knight with his friends. The first time a fight scene was filmed for the movie, George had to remind Hayden not to make the lightsaber noises himself as he had done as a young boy! Some characters from the original trilogy appear as their younger selves. Obi-Wan was played by Ewan McGregor, whose uncle had appeared in all three original movies as pilot Wedge Antilles. R2-D2 and C-3PO also appear, as do the child Boba Fett and a younger, swashbuckling Yoda.

这三部前传讲述了卢克的父亲阿纳金·天行者（Anakin Skywalker）如何首先成为绝地英雄，然后悲惨地成为邪恶的达斯·维德（Darth Vader），他是原三部曲中的反派。 在第一部电影《幽灵的威胁》中，阿纳金是卢克的家乡塔图因星球上一个10岁的奴隶。 演员海登·克里斯滕森在第二部电影《克隆人的进攻》中扮演年轻的阿纳金。 小时候，海登就和朋友们一起玩绝地武士的游戏。 第一次为电影拍摄打斗场面时，乔治不得不提醒海登不要像小时候那样自己发出光剑的声音！原三部曲中的一些角色以年轻时的样子出现。 欧比王由伊万·麦格雷戈饰演，他的叔叔曾在三部电影中饰演飞行员韦奇·安的列斯。 R2-D2和C-3PO也出现了，还有小时候的波巴·费特和更年轻、虚张声势的尤达。