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New Lucasfilm Campus Breaks Ground at Presidio
GuyMannDude writes "Lucasfilm has broken ground on the new $300 million special effects campus that he hopes will help San Francisco rival Hollywood as a producer of movie magic. Some see the project as a way for the Presidio (a national park) to become economically self-sufficient while critics claim that level of commercialization is unnecessary."
Which dark lord will win? George Lucas, or the faceless conglomeration known as Hollywood?
Well, at least there'll be more work up north, though with Davis taxing things, that might not last too long...
A special effects campus? Sounds fun! You walk in and every room is blue - the campus is added in using special effects. Watch out for the destroyer droids. ;)
San Francisco has the only bars stranger than a Mos Eisley cantina.
>The last really good Hollywood production I saw was The Score.
"So I was talking to the low-level systems administrator on the other end and then he sends me this [pan to screenshot: 'nothing in life is free asshole']. He comes into my world and calls me an asshole. So I said, 'fuck you,' and he goes, 'fuck you,' and I was like, 'no, fuck you' and he was like, 'no, fuck you ' and I said..."
One of my favorite scenes from any movie. Nothing like a stressed-out over-caffeinated fake-geek scene!
I would have thought that breaking ground in an earthquake zone is possibly not the most intelligent thing to do. Is the campus consuming earthquake to be the first special effect ?
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If by "less is more" you are referring to Gollum's loin cloth, I think you need to get some help.
"Bring it to me raw, and wriggling."
Are you sure you wouldn't prefer him to attend one?
From the sfgate article:
Lucasfilm and Letterman Digital Arts Ltd., as the new venture is called
Is that the Letterman of Late Night fame? I wonder. Imagine a Late Night home game. You as Dave shooting blue cards and pens at stupid pet tricks. Paul Schaffer as a help bot. The goal: rescue Mujiber and Sirajul.
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
Bah. this geological era will be identifiable by the layer of Phantom Menace crap visible in the strata. Is that a fossil or another JarJar binks comemorative cup?
Maybe in a few hundred million years, the evolved roaches will find enough stuff to start a religion over. Roach priests standing at the pulpit holding several fossilized action figures and having them do the force on each other.
Then they'll clone George Lucas, breed him in a Mamma roach and then he'll be the only human being in a world full of sentiant roaches, and they'll all love him. He'll walk around with a robe that has a C-3PO insignia on one shoulder, and a roach on another, and be transported to all the popular sideshows.
And then, maybe then, he'll decide maybe he should have stuck to being a filmaker rather than a Plastic Crap salesman.