George Lucas Predicts Death of Big Budget Movies

H_Fisher writes "Before the red carpet had cooled at last night's Academy Awards, George Lucas told the New York Daily News that big-budget movies will soon be history. From the article: "'The market forces that exist today make it unrealistic to spend $200 million on a movie,' said Lucas, a near-billionaire from his feverishly franchised outer-space epics. 'Those movies can't make their money back anymore. Look at what happened with King Kong.'" Lucas' prediction: "In the future, almost everything that gets shown in theaters will be indie movies ... I predict that by 2025 the average movie will cost only $15 million.""

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Translation of George Lucas' Statement:

[Hosiah]

"I'm out of Star Wars ideas."

Re:Star Wars rules... but Lucas is a moron

[Tim C]

Just about everything is a remake of something that's already been made.

As opposed to being a remake of something that hasn't been made before?

Re:George Lucas is wrong

[RobotRunAmok]

I can't wait to see what powers come to the artists willing to give up control of their work once it leaves their hands.

I'm hoping for invisibility and x-ray vision.

Re:George Lucas is wrong

[I Like Pudding]

Wait, you're actually arguing the point? Everyboy already knows that nothing Lucas writes or says can survive 2 neurons worth of deconstruction. I've even come up with a term for this phenomenon: Reductio ad Jar Jar. This is when you commit a single act so offensively stupid that to even agree with any of your ideas is to be negated. Effectively, your credibility has jumped the shark.

Lucas: Well, I think what we need to do here is blah blah blah excrement blah
Lucas' Aide: That's a great idea, sir
Lucas' Aide, internal monologue: JAR JAR FUCKING BINKS!
Lucas: Yes, I know. Furthur, blah blah Howard Duck blah blah
Lucas' Aide: Great, I'll take this to the ILM team
--
ILM Team: Yes?
Lucas' Aide: Here's the latest from George: blah blah Howard Duck blah
ILM Team: JAR JAR FUCKING BINKS!
Lucas' Aide: ...what did you just say?
ILM Team: Er, nothing.

See also: Howard Dean

Re: Well, yeah..

[Black Parrot]

> This is lucas we are talking about. The same man who made Revenge of the Sith. He has no business making movies any more, and less making predictions.

But he's a recognized expert on the topic of killing movies.

Re:George Lucas is wrong

[I Like Pudding]

Jar jar was the best character in the movies.

See? There it is! Right there! That's the point where I stopped caring what you think; Reductio ad Jar Jar.