the crimes of george lucas ('90s on)

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?

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/star-wars-7-8-and-9-are-most-exciting-says-george-lucas-biographer-exclusive-63006

For everyone expecting a release of the original and untouched trilogy anytime soon, I've been waiting for the last two seasons of The Muppet Show on DVD forrrrrr...four years now? Disney ain't in no hurry.

misread that and had this horrible, confused vision of george lucas wreaking CGI havoc on 'the great muppet caper.'

wait I thought there was a complete set of the Muppet Show on DVD at some point

Dude's cool.

I've been waiting for the last two seasons of The Muppet Show on DVD forrrrrr...four years now? Disney ain't in no hurry.

note their active butchery of the latter Roger Langridge comics

very happy to hear about where all that money's going, because honestly i don't give a shit what happens to anything Star Wars ever

it's going to jedi montessori training

Psyched for all the personal, low-budget, avant-garde films Lucas is gonna make now

THX-1136 prequel coming right up

http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/500986152_5snvJ-L-2.jpg

we learned george lucas was cool when his response to his rich neighbors' refusal to let him ruin their Tranquility by building a production studio on his land was to donate it to a nonprofit to build low-income housing on

that said i know this is naive but i read that breathlessly speculating io9 article and was genuinely taken aback that anyone, anyone, could want more goddamn motherfucking star wars movies

It's funny to see the history of Star Wars constantly get rewritten. In the past year or so it's gone from "Darth Vader's story was the entire thing" to "Oh yeah, it was going to be 12 episodes and 7-9 is WHERE IT REALLY GETS GOOD"

In the long run it's been the other way around - for a long time there was talk of a nine-episode trilogy of trilogies, and then around the time stuff was gearing up for Episode I it switched to "oh no just these and we're probably done".

In the long run it's been the other way around - for a long time there was talk of a nine-episode trilogy of trilogies, and then around the time stuff was gearing up for Episode I it switched to "oh no just these and we're probably done".

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, November 1, 2012 12:13 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

yeah thats how i remember it too. and even when i was a kid the idea of a prequel trilogy bored me, i wanted to see what happened after ROTJ

"I've never had much personal interest in filmmaking or storytelling. My life's dream was to spend 35 years building a profitable brand to sell to the Disney Company and to donate the profits to education."

Mark Hamill:

“Oh my gosh, what a shock that was! I had no idea that George was going to sell to Disney until I read it online like everybody else. He did tell us last summer about wanting to go on and do [Episodes] VII, VIII, and IX, and that [newly appointed Lucasfilm president] Kathleen Kennedy would be doing them… Yeah, last August, he asked Carrie and I to have lunch with him and we did. I thought he was going to talk about either his retirement or the Star Wars TV series that I’ve heard about… So when he said, “We decided we’re going to do Episodes VII, VIII, and IX,” I was just gobsmacked. “What? Are you nuts?!” [Laughs]

. . . “I can see both sides of it. Because in a way, there was a beginning, a middle, and an end and we all lived happily ever after and that’s the way it should be — and it’s great that people have fond memories, if they do have fond memories. But on the other hand, there’s this ravenous desire on the part of the true believers to have more and more and more material. It’s one of those things: people either just don’t care for it or are passionate about it. I guess that defines what cult movies are all about…”

they should get him to play The Joker in the new movies