Word: jedi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks Hollywood had been bracing for the attack. In May, Variety reported that video pirates were preparing an all-out assault on the summer's hottest film, Return of the Jedi. Lucasfilm Ltd., the producer, stepped up security by policing film labs, fastening film canisters with special metal seals, and using messengers to deliver prints around the U.S. The distributor, 20th Century-Fox, sent telegrams to 836 theater managers urging them to take "every possible security" measure against piracy...
Despite the extraordinary efforts, a print of Return of the Jedi disappeared last week from Bush River Cinemas in Columbia, S.C. The FBI was called in, and the film was recovered within twelve hours, thus apparently preventing the production of any illegal copies...
...sequels, the three movies that would follow Jedi, are considerably vaguer. Their main theme will be the necessity for moral choices and the wisdom needed to distinguish right from wrong. There was never any doubt in the films already made; in those the lines were sharply drawn, comic-book-style. Luke, who will then be the age Obi-Wan Kenobi is now, some place in his 60s, will reappear, and so will his friends, assuming that the creator decides to carry the epic further. Hamill and the others will get first crack at the roles-if they look old enough...
...later helped him find backing for his feature, THX 1138 (1971), a chilling look at a futuristic world in which people live underground and numbers have replaced names. American Graffiti came next. Its success persuaded 20th Century-Fox to invest money in Lucas' strange script about chirping robots, Jedi knights and a form of hocus-pocus called the Force...
...them, but the world works better if you're on the good side. It's just that simple." Luke is his alter ego, and it is no coincidence that he chose Mark Hamill, an actor who is about his own height, to play the last of the Jedi knights, or that he named the character Luke in the first place. Does Lucas really believe in the Force? "George says he doesn't, because he thinks people will consider him a freak if he does," says his wife. "But deep down, part of his unconscious believes...