Last Updated Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:39:35 EST
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In an interview to be broadcast on 60 Minutes on Sunday, Lucas says the tone of the film is more downbeat than its five predecessors.
"I don't think I would take a five- or six-year-old to this," he says.
"My feeling is that it will probably be a PG-13, so it will be the first Star Wars that's a PG-13."
A PG-13 rating in the U.S. would mean parents are strongly cautioned that the film contains scenes that are too disturbing for viewers under 13 years of age.
The film's climax is reportedly a lightsaber duel between Anakin (Canada's Hayden Christensen) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) on a volcano planet.
"We're going to watch [Anakin] make a pact with the devil," Lucas tells correspondent Leslie Stahl in the upcoming interview.
"The film is much more dark ... more emotional. It's much more of a tragedy."
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However, according to the biography Skywalking, Lucas actually added one disturbing image — a brief glimpse of two blackened and smoking corpses — to the original Star Wars film because he didn't want it dismissed as a children's movie.
The shot pushed the film away from a G rating and into PG territory.
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I'm not sure how seriously I take all this "darkness" talk since AOTC was supposed to be dark and it seemed to me to be more of a fluorescent orange.
However, if this is true, is it wise to all of a sudden create a film with a PG-13 when the remaning five films are PG? What about all the kids who want to see this? Isn't that unfair to them since their parents may be more hesitant?