Star Wars III Opens at Cannes

It is all over the place, but it is still exciting news. George Lucas has signed a deal to open Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith at the Cannes film festival in May 2005! Many will ask, "Why it is big news that the French get to see the last chapter of Star Wars 8 days before the rest of us?" Well, Cannes is just about the biggest film festival out there, covered to exhaustion by cine-phile site and magazines, and has become a sort of mecca for independent film. So this indicates (1) that Lucas feels this film will be something truly different and exciting and (2) that he is supremely confident in the ending to his film saga. These are both VERY good signs. Of course, not everyone will be captivated by the film, no matter what. Expectations are too high and too many folks have been imagining this moment for too long. But it probably means the "Yippee!" days of episode 1 are over.

Until Lucas decides to go back to well sometime in 2015 to start Episodes 7, 8, and 9 of course.