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."

Comments

Interesting naming scheme.

[Edgewize]

I wonder what the final company will be called? LucasEgo Intergalactic?

Re:Interesting naming scheme.

[JDWTopGuy]

I was thinking more along the lines of "Death Star Productions"...

Re:Interesting naming scheme.

[NanoGator]

"I wonder what the final company will be called? "

It'll be called Compu-global-Hyper-Mega-Net. He'll change his job title from CEO to Emperor.

One Ring To Rule Them All

[Anonymous Coward]

One Ring to bind them all!!

Wait shit ... wrong movie ...

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"

Re:Thank god...

[AnyoneEB]

I was worried the final Star Wars wasn't going to be any good.

Don't worry, the final Star Wars will most definitely not be any good.

Lucas-Mart

[Agamous Child]

George,

"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:

1. Write bad movies.
2. Sell cool toys.
3. ???
4. Profit. (Oh, he's already done this.)

Re:Lucas-Mart

[Anonvmous Coward]

"Unless, of course, you're only referring to the newer episodes."

Those were movies?! I thought those were ILM demo reels!

Re:The Empire Strikes Back

[rammadon]

Maybe we could start calling it the Trade Federation, too.

As you can see, my young apprentice...

[Anonymous Coward]

your friends have failed.
Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational mega-corporation!

Re:full text

[rmohr02]

Thank you. I was quite unable to click the link myself.

Natalie Portman

[SnuSnu]

I can't wait for the robotic Senator Amidala with realistic hand and mouth action...

Humpf.

[Black Parrot]

I guess we're about to find out whether crap has a critical mass.

The best work experience I ever had...

[Anonymous Coward]

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".

Re:jar jar

[russellh]

well, jar hates jar jar:

% jar jar
Illegal option: j
Usage: jar {ctxu}[vfm0M] [jar-file] [manifest-file] [-C dir] files ...