EARTH TO LUCAS: A MORE DIVERSE 'STAR WARS'?Byline: Bob Strauss In an effort to avoid the complaints about racial stereotyping that greeted ``Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace'' last summer, series creator George Lucas Noun 1. George Lucas - United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944) Lucas is apparently planning to give the next film, which is scheduled to be released in 2002, a more ethnically diverse cast. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like the concept of diversity's subtler points has quite been grasped up at Skywalker Ranch. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the entertainment trade paper Variety, Lucasfilm's casting director, Robin Gurland, has asked several Hollywood agencies to look for actors who can fill such new, proposed roles as a spiritual American Indian American Indian or Native American or Amerindian or indigenous American Any member of the various aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the Eskimos (Inuit) and the Aleuts. and an Asian who might be good at martial arts This is a list of martial arts, broken down by region and style. African martial arts Eritrea
Beats Jar Jar Binks' Stepin Fetchit act in ``Episode 1,'' that's for sure. But aren't those roles a wee bit familiar from dozens of revisionist re·vi·sion·ism n. 1. Advocacy of the revision of an accepted, usually long-standing view, theory, or doctrine, especially a revision of historical events and movements. 2. westerns and hundreds of kung fu movies? If Lucas, who reportedly is still writing the script, really wants to avoid stereotyping, maybe he should leave his cloistered, high-tech ranch more often and check out what people are like in the real world. And while we're at it, George, about bringing Jar Jar back ... CAPTION(S): photo Photo: George Lucas Far, far away |
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