To: mike
From: New York Times
Subject: film, Jerry Kids.  

"producer George Lucas. His company, Lucasfilm, is now embarking on
The New York Times · Entertainment and Culture · October 15, 1991

Undated: Jerry Kids.''

      ªOnce you get to know characters it's natural to want to see them in different environments, at different ages, but in cartoons these days, everything is baby this, baby that,º complained the producer George Lucas. His company, Lucas®lm, is now embarking on what he says will be a much more sophisticated endeavor, in fact perhaps the most ambitious prime-time prequel ever attempted: ªThe Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.º 

      The series will feature a teen-age or a pre-teen Indy (a character ®rst seen in ªIndiana Jones and the Last Crusadeº) traveling the globe with his parents between 1908 and 1917 and meeting such celebrities as Pancho Villa, Mata Hari and Lawrence of Arabia. Scheduled for early 1992, the show is produced in association with Paramount's network television division for ABC. 

      In a telephone interview, Lucas bristled at a suggestion that the ªYoung Indyº series will bear any resemblance to shows like ªMuppet Babiesº or even to his own ªIndiana Jonesº movies. 

      ªIt's more `Fanny and Alexander' than `The Last Crusade,' º he said. ªA lot of people will expect some kind of Spielbergian chase thing; this will be much more introspective and oriented toward drama, ideas, the history of the time period.º 

      Lucas's other major prequels now in progress are parts 1, 2 and 3 of the ªStar Warsº ®lms, which will deal with the con¯icts of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader as young men. The three movies that were released in the late 70s and early 80s represented parts 4, 5 and 6 of the ªStar Warsº story; Lucas had originally intended to incorporate parts 1, 2 and 3 into the ®rst ®lm, but discovered that the material could not be squeezed into less than two hours. He is going back to those parts now, he said, because their scripts are basically written. 

      But he will not start ®lming them for years; a release date prediction for the ®rst hovers somewhere around 1997. ªThere are things that interest me that I want to do ®rst,º he said, and in fact he sounded bored with the prospect of the ªStar Warsº prequels. ªPeople want more `Star Wars,' º he said, ªand they don't care if it's a prequel, a sequel or the same thing all over again.º   

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source: NYT (Copyright 1991 The New York Times)

"producer George Lucas. His company, Lucasfilm, is now embarking on
The New York Times · Entertainment and Culture · October 15, 1991

Undated: Jerry Kids.''

      ªOnce you get to know characters it's natural to want to see them in different environments, at different ages, but in cartoons these days, everything is baby this, baby that,º complained the producer George Lucas. His company, Lucas®lm, is now embarking on what he says will be a much more sophisticated endeavor, in fact perhaps the most ambitious prime-time prequel ever attempted: ªThe Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.º 

      The series will feature a teen-age or a pre-teen Indy (a character ®rst seen in ªIndiana Jones and the Last Crusadeº) traveling the globe with his parents between 1908 and 1917 and meeting such celebrities as Pancho Villa, Mata Hari and Lawrence of Arabia. Scheduled for early 1992, the show is produced in association with Paramount's network television division for ABC.