In case George Lucas claiming Episode III is going to be "Titanic in space"
wasn't enough to instill a sense of dread about this last Star Wars movie, then perhaps learning that Lucas had to "force" himself to write Episode III might do it. According to this article, because Lucas was so uninspired with what to write, he had to force himself to sit at a desk for 9 hours a day, 5 days a week just so he could write the script:
- "I am very diligent about writing. I go to work at 8.30am and leave at 6pm. I sit there with that page in front of me but I still can't write it.
"I do get it done, I actually write five pages a day. But I force myself - otherwise I would probably write a page a day."
Well George, I'm glad to see that Star Wars is a work of drudgery for you. Maybe if you had just made it about Darth Vader going around and killing everyone, it would have been easier to write. But no, that's not the story you're interested in telling. Christ, why didn't Lucas just hire people to help write all three scripts before he started shooting Episode I? Oh well, what's done is done. Let's hurry up and get this damn thing over with.
By the way, since I've had requests for any new news on this, I noticed that over at blogging.la they've devoted a whole page to keeping up with all the new updates on those idiots waiting in line for Episode III outside the Mann's Chinese.