George Lucas – Allen G. Bagby

Old Movie Remakes: Is Hollywood Running out of Ideas?

By Allen G. Bagby Posted on January 30, 2017 Posted in Books, Culture (movies, music, art, and books), Movies, On Writing, Politics and Philosophy, Society, Video No Comments Tagged with Blake Snyder, blood and soul, book, books, Charelton Heston, creavite writing, George Lucas, Heroic fantasy, Hollywood, James Scott Bell, Jurassic Park, Larry Brooks, Movies, novel, novelist, planet of the apes, Remakes, Save the Cat, Singing in the Rain, Star Wars, Stephen King, Steven Spielberg, Story, Story Engineering, The Time Machine, write, writer, writing

I ask for tough questions on my Facebook. I said I would answer them by doing Facebook LIVE from my Author’s Page. The first question was:

“What is your take on so many old movies being remade? Is it because Hollywood can’t come up with anything new on their own?”

My YouTube answer is here:

Otherwise, keep reading.

I don’t mind remakes of old Si-Fi or Fantasy movies. Because back in the day their reach exceeded their grasp.… Read more

One Reason Why Star Wars Was Great

By Allen G. Bagby Posted on August 7, 2016 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments Tagged with A New Hope, Amazon, Blood & Soul, book, creavite writing, David Gemmell, fantasy fiction, George Lucas, Heroic fantasy, High fantasy, luke skywalker, Star Wars, writer

I’ve totally revamped Out of Oblivion the last 6 months after an epic bazillion words. When I got to the end of the first serious draft I was not happy with the ending. I don’t settle.

Recently I got together with two of my genius friends to discuss the end of Out of Oblivion. I sent them a message on Facebook prior to meeting basically saying the following:

What Makes a Story Great?

Let’s use Luke Skywalker’s “moment” in the finale of Star Wars over the Death Star.… Read more