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Lucas: Internet would have ruined Star Wars

added: 1 Jun 2014 // by: Film-News.co.uk Newsdesk 

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George Lucas thinks Star Wars’ famous father scene was one of the movie industry’s last “real reveals”.

Empire magazine’s latest edition crowned 1980’s Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back the best film of all time in its top 200 list. George, 70, wrote the story, which includes the epic moment where Darth Vader reveals he is Luke Skywalker’s father.

Looking back, he’s amazed he was able to keep the huge twist under wraps for so long.

“No. It was pretty remarkable we pulled it off then,” he answered Empire when asked if he thinks it would have been possible now.

“It was without the internet but it was still extremely intense in terms of the fans. Literally, I didn’t tell anybody. Even the producer didn’t know. It wasn’t until James Earl Jones [Darth Vader’s voice] came on during the finishing of the movie that it was revealed what he was actually saying there.

“We expected it to leak but it didn’t. It made it through the sound mix where the group widened. Then, everybody came out of the first screening and said, ‘He’s his father!’

“Personally, I think it was one of the last real reveals. Now you can’t do it.”

George owned Lucasfilm before selling it to Disney in 2012 and is also the director behind several of the movies in the franchise. The Empire Strikes Back was directed by Irvin Kershner, but George helmed the instalment before that, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.

He also discussed the difference between the two films.

“I think [Episode V] is soulful, but in a different way from Episode IV,” he mused.

“It’s a little bit more adult. As a director, I’m more of a goofy director.”

He added that Episode V’s popularity is “relative” and that each of the films is loved by different people.

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