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George Lucas Consolidates his Empire
Shadowcat writes "George Lucas is consolidating his galaxy, merging LucasArts, Lucas Digital (ILM & Skywalker Sound), Lucas Licensing, and Lucasfilm into one mega-corporation to provide a single place to create all sorts of media. You can find the
article on SF Chronicle Site."
Just maybe we'll see about 10 thousand more star wars games, cause there aren't enough....
I wonder what the final company will be called? LucasEgo Intergalactic?
Wait shit
Anyways Lucas will try anything and everything to make as much money off of something that he can, this has been proven on many occassions, what makes it so unsettling for slashdot readers is that _WE_ really enjoy the star wars films and we all go and see them. SEE the problem? We hate it, but we love it, ack capitalism vs. socialism.
Posting as AC because I'm too lazy to log in and I already an "Excellent"
George will likely seek the hand of Athina, the grand-daughter of Aristotle Onassis, now that she's turned 18 and inherited all that money.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
Centralization breaks the internet.
Later, George was overheard muttering to himself:
"Truth, fiction...I'm the guy with the lightsaber. Fzoom!"
"Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet [through rampant licensing] is insignificant next to the power of the Force."
Formula for cinematic infamy:
I had a sig, but
Maybe we could start calling it the Trade Federation, too.
your friends have failed.
Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational mega-corporation!
January 29th, 2003, AP Rumours of major re-organization in California today from Media Baron George Lucas' Lucasfilm company. Merging four distinct entertainment entities into one, this easily allows Lucas to command his armies of creative types into the future battlefield of the digital frontier. Also, in a related story, sales of white plastic one-size-fits-all suits has increased dramatically nation-wide.
Thank you. I was quite unable to click the link myself.
... until a ship landed a few miles south of my house and unloaded a bunch of droids.
Dang George.. he's trying to build a monopoly and destroy other movie businesses! Darn him!
We must now start an open-movie force! We'll build movies for free, and all the scripts will be written (and sanity-checked) by students. We can include a free sound-crunching system and rendering farm. We'll call it ShowForge.. and we can have a solid business.. let's see.. Movix.. then we can have some of the Movix people drop out and call themselves the FMF (Free Movie Foundation).
Oo oo... and then we'll need a mascot. We'll take a Red Rhone Cow... (So no infriging on any possible movie system that Gateway could come up with), and we'll call 'em Mux!! Yeah.. that's the ticket. Then we'll make movies for free, with volunteer actors, and make movies a-plenty. Taco and Hemos in Rob & Jeff's Excellent Adventure!
Then we could make a Star Wars movie.. maybe call it Distro Wars! YEAH!
Ok.. now, I'll bet that 3rd Star Wars movie is sounding not-so-bad, eh? Hehehehe...
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Don't worry, the final Star Wars will most definitely not be any good.
Should'nt that be modded INFORMATIVE & not FUNNY?
The more companies will slip through your fingers.
What signature defines me as a person?
I can't wait for the robotic Senator Amidala with realistic hand and mouth action...
I guess we're about to find out whether crap has a critical mass.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I was working for a cheap-ass closeout bookstore just north of Marin when Star Wars Episode II was coming out. A gentleman wearing a shitload of Lucas swag (jacket, shirt, hat) came in to the store with his family about a week before the movie came out.
I helped him find the book he was looking for (miracle of miracles, we had a copy), and I asked him if he worked at Lucas or just had friends/family there.
Turned out, he worked for LucasArts, and he had just come from a screening for employees of all of the Lucas companies. He said that it was worth seeing, but not really the best of the series.
Then there was a pause.
"You know what my next question is," I said.
"Yes. He's on screen for all of about five minutes, and they toned him down."
That was a fun experience, to get an honest appraisal of the movie before it came out and to find out the most important thing about the movie without even mentioning the "J-J-word".
ARKIN: The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.
TAGGE: That's impossible! How will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?
TARKIN: The regional governors now have direct control over territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station.
filter: +3. Hey, look! all the trolls went away!
"This company is now the ultimate power in the movie industry. I suggest we use it."
Anakin Skywalker, or the guy who plays him on tv was at the bar i was drinking at last night. I felt no courage enough to take on the would-be-master of evil, as I had not enough liquid FORCE in me at the time.
I should have told him his boss was an egomaniac.
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...that 'Lucas Arts franchise dealership' you wanted is closer to a reality!
I didn't even bother going to Episode 2.
Uh oh, I can see my karma falling now. One of us will keep our "excellent" karma.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
I forgot where I grabbed this from, if anyone knows please reply...
25 Lines From Star Wars that can be improved if you substitute the word "Pants"
1. A tremor in the pants. The last time I felt this was in the presence of my old master.
2. You are unwise to lower your pants.
3. We've got to be able to get some reading on those pants, up or down.
4. She must have hidden the plans in her pants. Send a detachment down to retrieve them. See to it personally Commander.
5. These pants may not look like much, kid, but they've got it where it counts.
6. I find your lack of pants disturbing.
7. These pants contain the ultimate power in the Universe. I suggest we use it.
8. Han will have those pants down. We've got to give him more time!
9. General Veers, prepare your pants for a surface assault.
10. I used to bulls-eye womp-rats in my pants back home.
11. TK-421. . . Why aren't you in your pants?
12. Lock the door. And hope they don't have pants.
13. Governor Tarkin. I recognized your foul pants when I was brought on board.
14. You look strong enough to pull the pants off of a Gundark.
15. Luke. . . Help me take...these pants off.
16. Great, Chewie, great. Always thinking with your pants.
17. That blast came from those pants. That thing's operational!
18. Don't worry. Chewie and I have gotten into a lot of pants more heavily guarded than this.
19. Maybe you'd like it back in your pants, your highness.
20. Your pants betray you. Your feelings for them are strong. Especially for your sister!
21. Jabba doesn't have time for smugglers who drop their pants at the first sign of an Imperial Cruiser.
22. Yeah, well short pants is better than no pants at all, Chewie.
23. Attention. This is Lando Calrissean. The Empire has taken control of my pants, I advise everyone to leave before more troops arrive.
24. I cannot teach him. The boy has no pants.
25. You came in those pants? You're braver than I thought.
He is one egocentric guy, naming almost all those companies after himself...
Yeah, that's pretty unprecedented.
I write in my journal
George Lucas merged four companies into a megacorporation? Shouldn't that be a quadcorporation? You don't often see a fusion of a million businesses into one corporate structure, unless you are talking about Enron subsidiaries.
Get your prefixes straight!
oooohhh...one company that has a monopoly over a certain sector, and is all powerful...
can i suggest "Lucassoft"????
if they ever went public, the symbol could be "LSFT"...fits perfectly...
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true." - Homer Simpson
How will Lucas maintain control without the bureaucracy?
I'm sorry.
My God, it's Full of Source!
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