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Lucas To Make New Live Action Star Wars Films

Posted by samzenpus on from the please-stop-killing-the-franchise dept.

DrNASA writes "George Lucas says that he will make two more live-action films based in the "Star Wars" era. "But they won't have members of the Skywalker family as characters," he said."

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  1. Found this particularly funny... by Raistlin77 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    From the article on foxnews.com... Before I tell you what George Lucas said at the all-star Time magazine dinner for the 100 most influential people, let's cut to the chase: Cate Blanchett arrived and looked gorgeous. She looked completely unlike the picture that ran everywhere Tuesday that depicted her as an anorexic skeleton.

    Gee, the picture shown there looks like an anorexic skeleton in a skin suit.

  2. Re:A bold new direction from Lucas by gd2shoe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thought the Clone wars animated series was really good.
    Having not seen the animated series, I wasn't sure whether to mod your comment "informative" or "funny".
    Instead of making the grueling determination, I replied instead. Problem solved.
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  3. Re:parts 3 and 4 by illeism · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Man, I don't get those references at all...
    Now if you had said
    Star Wars 7: The Return of Ragnarök - featuring Tim Robbins as Erik
    and
    Star Wars 8: The Grammarean Strikes Back (The /. Wars)
    I might have understood a little better ;)

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  4. Stars Wars eh ok but that Rush comment... by gridsleep · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    More Star Wars wouldn't be bad, nothing to get spasmodic about. But that Friedman guy's comment about Rush being low class? The opinion of a no-class jerk, more like. What can we expect from anyone who would work for the Ozzie Nazi Rupert Murdock? Fox News, the televised tabloid. Trash through and through.

  5. Maybe Lucas will acquire Wikia. by Animats · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wikia was supposed to be a new search engine. But it's really just a free hosting service for wikis. The section that gets the most traffic is Wookiepedia, which Wikia took over and infested with ads. Wikia seems to be turning into a place where the fancruft kicked out of Wikipedia can flourish. This is probably a good thing.

    So it would make sense for Lucas to acquire Wikia, and thus acquire control of the fanbase, which can then be monetized. Wikia's ads are for minor companies and are placed on irrelevant articles. Lucas's operation, which understands marketing, could do better.

    Lucas might even be able to unload the leftover Jar-Jar merchandise that way.