the crimes of george lucas ('90s on)

Jane Siberry sang the theme song which hooked my teenage self but no it is not good

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harf

so disney gets industrial light & magic then eh... that's pretty crazy... do they get skywalker ranch too?

Presumably. Skywalker Sound, the Presidio complex in SF itself...

what about the scary darth vader head with luke's face inside?

That belongs to the nightmares of all the children of the world.

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It's so funny to me that there are people that think this way.

that... isn't deeply sarcastic?

dear god

If it's from the blog I'm thinking of, relentlessly unsarcastic.

i thought it was sarcastic and nicole was referring to the people being made fun of in the cartoon and not the cartoon itself

or that the character himself was being sarcastic and nicole was referring to the people the character was making fun of

so many readings, it really is a rich text

much like Star Wars itself

it's like poetry, it rhymes

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i thought it was sarcastic and nicole was referring to the people being made fun of in the cartoon and not the cartoon itself

The strip typically makes fun of the dumb or goofy things people say in comic book stores, so yeah.

That's the way I was taking it -- I have no doubt someone came in and said exactly that in all earnestness.

Man oh man oh man! I just can't believe Episode 7 in 3 years!!!

I'm not being sarcastic, i am genuinely excited.

(I am too.)

I could get behind something that didn't mention Anakin once.

Maybe they'll adapt the "Legacy" comic, which takes place more than 100 years in the future of the SW universe, involves a descendant of Luke's who is not a Jedi, and the only OG character that appears is Luke, in the form of a ghost.

what if it mentions Anakin 500 times

500 Anakins (of Summer)

Feature-length Genndy Tartakovsky = I would go see that, yes please, now please.

I really hope it's made by people who only have a passing familiarity with the original series.

EXT. INDIANA DUNES STATE PARK

A platoon of Darth Vaders comb the sand with metal detectors as the evil warlord C3PO wanders through their ranks, whipping them with that laser sword thing.

C3PO
Faster, minions! We must find the Force before Jabba The Hug arrives in the Death Star!

That's Spaceballs, isn't it?

io9.com goes into overdrive

http://updates.io9.com/post/34698824522/what-we-want-from-a-new-star-wars-trilogy

Maniac mansion was awesome -- basically sctv in sitcom format.

i wonder how many trilogies/franchises have been made now with a guarantee of producing all three movies (or more than one or whatever), as opposed to waiting to see if the first one makes money before moving forward, besides the SW prequels, these new sequels, and LOTR/The Hobbit

Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Twilight (okay, they could all have completely flopped, but so could LOTR)

LOL @ goole

if i were a devious studio head i would simply commission one looong movie (versus 3 movies) with the budget appropriately slashed, then cut it into 3 movies in the editing room.

You mean The Hobbit gambit.

Worst Ludlum book.

The Bilbo Ultimatum

The Saruman Weekend

real talk guys even thinking about star wars anymore just makes me tired and a little sad

I watch the Clone Wars animated series religiously every week so you just shut up.

I was going to lol at Phil but I watch Green Lantern and Young Justice so

For a "kid's show" Clone Wars has a super-high body count. The most recent episode, among all the war deaths, also included an unarmed person being shot point-blank in the head and the episode's hero being dropped off a cliff so we could see her dead body at the base.

I saw an episode last season that involved a town getting razed and raped, was taken aback

Can't wait for that ride oh wait.

Anyway, wasting no time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUbH1SEsqiE

Unfortunately, LucasArts' classic game catalog is even more likely to be seen as a drop-in-the-bucket for a major international conglomerate like Disney than it was for a struggling independent publishing house like LucasArts. Disney will more than likely continue to sit on these properties, treating them with the same kind of benign neglect fans have been used to for decades, sometimes to the chagrin of their creators. "Dear Disney: I would like to buy the IP for a game I created called Monkey Island from you," series progenitor Ron Gilbert cheekily tweeted yesterday. "P.S. I have no money."

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/10/what-does-the-disney-buyout-mean-for-lucasarts-gaming-catalog/

Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Twilight (okay, they could all have completely flopped, but so could LOTR)

― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, October 31, 2012 1:07 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

2nd Hunger Games and Twilight movies didn't get the green light til the first ones made big box office, but apparently production on the 2nd Potter movie began the same week the first one was out so i guess that was a done deal.

pretty sure the harry potter IP was much more popular than those other 2 before their respective first movies

As noted by The AV Club in a story today, it will be exceedingly weird to think about a Star Wars feature film not preceded by the 20th Century Fox fanfare.

i'm a little frightened about what Lucas is going to do with all that money. what project did he need to finance that he couldn't have done with his prior fortune?