A Plan for Rescuing Star Wars

I always knew that George Lucas harbors a burning hatred for all things that once made Star Wars great.  It's still common for arguments to break out at the office over whether Episode 1 or Episode 2 was the most egregious offender ("Remember JarJar!", "Remember Baby Fett!"), but all true geeks agree that watching the latest trilogy was like having garbage dumped onto your most cherished childhood memories.  Now there's proof that this was literally the intended effect.  Witness this officially licensed R2-D2 trash can on sale from ThinkGeek:

So it was really no great loss when Lucas announced that, although there were always supposed to be nine movies in the series, the anticipated final trilogy was never going to be made.  Better to have Star Wars be 3/6 good than 6/9 crap.  Ok, maybe it was only ever 2.5/6 good as there are some doubts about Jedi.  Still, what if the final trilogy could be made well?  What if it could be so good as to redeem the whole series??  Here's my plan:

1. Give Peter Jackson a billion dollars and send him New Zealand for three years to shoot the new trilogy all at once, ala Lord of the Rings.

2. Do NOT, for the love of god, let George Lucas know that this is going on.

3. Only after the new trilogy is completely finished, approach Lucas and see if you can negotiate the Stars Wars license.  If he says "yes", you've just saved Star Wars!  If he says "no", just re-render the CG with different looking alien models and you've got the world's best sci-fi movie trilogy anyway.

I think this could work, but George must never, ever, know.

Hmm, actually that trash can is kindda neat.  Awww, man, they're sold out.