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> Another "temporally ambitious" series was George Lucas' Star Wars films “temporally ambitious” implies some sort of forethought. With Star Wars it was just

> Another "temporally ambitious" series was George Lucas' Star Wars films “temporally ambitious” implies some sort of forethought. With Star Wars it was just a series of profit maximizing attempts. George Lucas released Episode IV. Then he saw a bunch of demand and made V and VI. Then later made I-III since there was more money to be made. Disney bought the franchise and decided there was still more money and nostalgia is a powerful factor and made VII - IX using a lot of the same actors. In the same vein, I guess Indiana Jones is temporally ambitious as it shows an aging Harrison Ford. But unlike the other examples, I there really wasn’t an artistic vision. It was more financially ambitious which accidentally ended up looking like temporally ambitious.

someperson 6y ago
In the early 1980s George Lucas asked Mark Hamill if he wanted to reprise his role in 30 years to "hand excalibur down to the next generation": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UGV7WVB-bA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UGV7WVB-bA The original 1977 movie was titled 'Star Wars' (without any subtitles). The temporal ambition started with titling the next movie "Episode V: Empire Strikes Back" and renaming the original movie "Episode IV: A New Hope". I agree maximizing profits plays a big part, he made things up as he went along and in interviews over the years he switched between saying it's a 6/9/12 movie saga. But whatever his motivations, he still had the temporal ambition to "start from the middle" and leveraged that idea to build a lasting franchise. And that really impresses me.