Return of the Lost Screenwriter Strikes Back
Even I would have to admit that Robotech seems a pretty minor figure in the pantheon of 1980s pop culture. It seems, though, that the people working on a live-action Robotech movie have found a way to connect their project to some very major parts of that 1980s pantheon: Lawrence Kasdan has been hired to write a script...
When I first saw the news, my reaction was indeed pretty much "Wow!" (A bit later, I did also contemplate how the at-the-time past and future Star Wars novel writers Brian Daley and James Luceno collaborated under a pen name to write the Robotech novelizations in the 1980s, if to some ultimate fan controversy about whether the mechanisms they worked up to try and justify the story just wound up taking it over...) However, not that long after my first reaction, I thought that it's been more than twenty-five years since Kasdan wrote The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Return of the Jedi, and that he seemed to have set out on a different path than writing scripts for special-effects movies... and then I found myself wondering "What has he done lately?" Still, at least I didn't use the news as an excuse to beat up on George Lucas or, as one person seemed to be doing, to make dark allusions about Kasdan just for having been connected to Lucas...
When I first saw the news, my reaction was indeed pretty much "Wow!" (A bit later, I did also contemplate how the at-the-time past and future Star Wars novel writers Brian Daley and James Luceno collaborated under a pen name to write the Robotech novelizations in the 1980s, if to some ultimate fan controversy about whether the mechanisms they worked up to try and justify the story just wound up taking it over...) However, not that long after my first reaction, I thought that it's been more than twenty-five years since Kasdan wrote The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Return of the Jedi, and that he seemed to have set out on a different path than writing scripts for special-effects movies... and then I found myself wondering "What has he done lately?" Still, at least I didn't use the news as an excuse to beat up on George Lucas or, as one person seemed to be doing, to make dark allusions about Kasdan just for having been connected to Lucas...