Going Out with a Bang Posted By Joshua on May 22, 2005
Arizona Central has a new article today suggesting Star Wars go out on a high note and end it all with this one. Here's a clip:
Tantalizing the faithful, Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert guesses that Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith may not be the last installment after all.
The certainty of a Star Wars movie earning so many near-billions of dollars, figures Ebert, may bring Darth Vader and Co. back again. We'll see.
For the fantasists among us, that hope must hold faint. Six movies over 27 years is a long time for any series of movies to be held dear by mass audiences. And it seems plausible to wonder if it isn't just Star Wars that has run its course at last. Maybe the whole genre of blockbuster, imagination-capturing, epic movie series has run out of gas. advertisement
The purported last installment of Hollywood's other major space opera series, Star Trek, went dark recently. The last vestige of what fantasy writer Gene Roddenberry once wrought, a retro-style TV prequel called Star Trek: Enterprise, has been deemed the last of its kind.