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George Lucas Selects Chicago For the Star Wars Museum
netringer writes: George Lucas has selected Chicago over Los Angeles and San Francisco as the future home of The Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts, housing his collection of Star Wars art and movie memorabilia along with exhibits of the technology of Industrial Light and Magic (ILM). Where else but on the Chicago Lakefront will be it easy to recreate the ice planet of Hoth?
The only Lucas art museum I need is ScummVM.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
I thought that asshole was retired.
Fuck him.
Star Wars hasn't been good since 1980.
And one of the crowd favorite characters: Boba Fett, was introduced in the fucking Holiday Special
"Narrative Farts, more like."
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i hope he has a whole wing devoted to jar jar binks
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Well.....I guess that's one museum I'll never be visiting.
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Please rethink it and keep it in California.
That way it's easier to change it from year to year. Less travel when you have to choose who shoots first and add fart jokes.
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
As if driving in the city wasn't bad enough.
Yep, George married Mellody Hobson, and she's a native of Chicago - born there, grew up there. Think she had any influence on this?
Sell the theatrical versions on HD media for ANH/ESB/ROTJ in the gift shop.
No CG bullshit, Han shoots first, and Sebastian Shaw is Anakin at the end of ROTJ. Complete with all the wonderful compositing errors around the miniatures and fighters in the space scenes (it's that slight colour mismatch you can sometimes see around things where they glued the footage together to create the final shots).
I'm basically talking about the Laserdisc versions on Bluray or something, dumped from those special archival reels one of the original companies still has locked up. You could sell those for $60/pop and people would go apeshit over them. Make it so that you can only buy them there, and only after you've gone through the museum.
George, please just stop. Stop.
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When the current generation who grew up on Star Wars go away, will it remain in public memory like paintings or music, or even cinema? And that too at Chicago, home to excellent museums.
Me thinks there is no permanence to Star Wars. Its already looking dated and silly.
Meanwhile '2012 A Space Odyssey' still feels fresh.
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One more reason to never go anywhere near Chicago.
...which do urgent need some help.
..Star Wars Museum robbed!
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Hardly surprising. This is the same kind of decision typically made by large entertainment ventures - e.g., Six Flags, Universal, etc. - after doing careful studies of population density, demographics and travel connections.
You've all heard the " ... there are N millions of people within a 4-hour drive or 1 flight,no transfer, from Y amusement park." Yep, same math.
While New York or LA may be closer to the entertainment industry, Chicago is central to the people who matter most - The fans.
If you stuck a pin in Chicago on the map and plotted a circle to estimate how many millions of people live within 2 states in any given direction - easy traveling considering the transportation arteries that converge into I-80 & I-94 - it's a hell of a lot of people. That one of the largest, most capable international airports in the world - O'Hare - sits on the edge of town, massively connected through multiple rail, bus and taxi lines - is a big fat cherry on top.
This is the kind of head-scratching math that puts enormous amusement parks like Kings Island in Cincinnati Ohio, or Six Flags halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee in the middle of nowhere - because they are actually in the middle of a ton of midwesterners unafraid of a car trip.
Having the ability to ride the nations' only electric interstate train all the way from South Bend, Indiana to Millennium Station in the heart of downtown Chicago for $22 round trip - I can't wait for the museum to open!
THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK.
Lucas originally wanted this location for his monument to himself. It's in open space in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, with unobstructed views of the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco Bay, and Alcatraz. That's one of the great urban waterfront public spaces of the world. So that plan was very unpopular in SF. Another location was proposed, some unused piers a few miles down the waterfront in the tourist waterfront area, but that wasn't dramatic enough for Lucas.
Could he have selected a more pompous name for the place?
Just as New-york has moma (museum of modern art), drops lucas and just name it mona (museum of narrative art). It just can't be a Guggenheim... please, no (not a lucas museum in more than one city, do not let that happen. You can stop it now).
Excepted for Lucas implication, I do not see the relation of the museum with star wars.
Next step: Lucas fights against the Mona Lisa painting, to have it renamed... it was done first but you know who shoot first and what happened to (hi[s])story.
As a Chicago resident, I can't believe this is even being considered for the lakefront. Once more people find out about this it will surely be shot down.
"I can't wait for the museum to open!"
You can have it then. It doesn't belong on the lakefront alongside such classical institutions like the Shedd Aquarium or the Field Museum.
You probably nailed why it is always on the list for top ten local destinations. Every year.
Great Choice Georgee it fits with the theme.
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy
Poor Han he still won't be able to shoot first there either. Maybe you should have picked Florida instead, we have more reasonable gun laws down here.
He only ruined Star Trek by turning it into a mindless summer blockbuster space movie, you know, Star Wars.
George Lucas has selected Chicago over Los Angeles and San Francisco
Great Choice Georgee it fits with the theme.
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy
Poor Han he still won't be able to shoot first there either. Maybe you should have picked Florida instead, we have more reasonable gun laws down here.
HEH!
Okay that got a laugh outta me.
So.
Damn.
TRUE!
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Having the ability to ride the nations' only electric interstate train all the way from South Bend, Indiana to Millennium Station in the heart of downtown Chicago for $22 round trip - I can't wait for the museum to open!
There are other electric interstate trains in the US.
As a Chicagoan who's going into museum curation for his career, I look forward to applying for a job here.
Data's painting is making me dizzy...
They could have put it in Detroit and used the city itself as an example of post-bombardment Taris.
Watch for Penguins, they eat Apples and throw rocks at Windows.
You'll not find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Personally, I'm tired of the whole Star Wars thing, and was never a fan of it to begin with. At least he put this in Chicago - far away from the rest of us.
Doesn't sound like you've been there either.
Everything he said was rather true except for the last bit, once conceal carry was passed in Illinois there have been gun free zone stickers plastered all over a lot of buildings to make it as inconvenient as possible.
Chicago : You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
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Chicago. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
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Duluth, or Bayfield, where there was still pack ice in April, would be a better Hoth.
Chicago - gave us our first truly anti-American President.
He had that neck bag thing back then too.
All that money and he hasn't gotten his neck pouch removed.
Strange.
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George Lucas opens museum honoring himself
The tax you to death and shoot you dead city of Chicago?
I am guessing they will let him stay tax free for a cut of the money.
The welfare government cannot survive on it's own, must find a way to leach off of real producers.
So they give tax havens to those who can make money and everyone else gets the shaft.
There's much less chance of his museum being destroyed by either Godzilla's defensive maneuvers or the dawn of a race of super apes taking over the planet.
Take off every 'SIG'!!
I'll likely never go visit it. Who would want to go to Chicago? Why not put it in New Jersey while your at it?
He's a big fan of star wars in the books
Having the ability to ride the nations' only electric interstate train
Where on earth did you come up with that from? There have been interstate electrified trains for over 100 years.
That's like choosing which hooker to give herpes.
http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Chicago-Illinois.html
2.7 million people, 500 murders in 2012 = 18.5 per 100,000
New Orleans was 53.2 per 100,000
You must be terrified of Mardi Gras.
That is not the museum I'll be looking for.
Lessee... Museum of Science and Industry, Field Museum of Natural History, Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Pritzker Bandshell, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Grant Park Outdoor Music Series, great food, not to mention Buckingham Fountain and Navy Pier for the tourists.
Chicago is great in the spring and summer. Longest public lakefront of any city in the world I believe. Murder rate is complete bullshit.
Winter really, really sucks.
Well, if there's a bright center to the universe, this museum's in the city that it's farthest from.
Where else but on the Chicago Lakefront will be it easy to recreate the ice planet of Hoth?
Its so cute when Americans from the lower 48 talk about how cold some place gets; sort of like when Canadians talk about heat waves.
actually this has more to do with the presidio trust screwing him over for 4 years.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/...
If it weren't for the 'mechanical' you'd be referring to the epically corrupt thugs and crooks that inhabit every level of the city and county government there. The Mos Eisley cantina might as well be City Hall... a wretched hive of scum and villainy. And those crooks, often until they retire, die or finally either act recklessly enough to be caught or more likely embarrass a higher ranking crook and get turned into sacrifices, are re-elected time after time by a well controlled and indoctrinated populace. Reminiscent of Saddam's Iraq...
Great place for a Star Wars museum... especially one covering the era of the Republic's fall and the rise of the Empire.
Can't wait until is time for some electrical connection to be changed, or a piece to be moved and they have to wait for the right series of union folks to come along and piecemeal the change, with breadk in between, and oh boy don't even think about doing it yourself, or asking the electrician to move a box in the way of his work, or the mover unplug a cord so they can move an object, or there will be 'problems', and you won't like the 'problems'. (personal experience at a trade show in that city).
And some of the 'extra' money you're paying for those "qualified" people will also be filtering back into the coffers of the machine crooks.
No, I won't be going either. All the "little bites" that will go to feed the crooks and their machine leave a bad taste. A person's got to be pretty unparticular about who they hang around with to want to go spend money in chicago.
Along with permanent exhibits, such as theaters running constant loops of Greedo shooting first and Indiana Jones fighting aliens, there can be loaned works, such as the Mona Lisa. Da Vinci changed her frown to a smile in the re-release.
Having a bunch of cowardly little men with mechanical penis running around to be a positive thing for the city.
It's not. It doesn't need to be. It's a constitutional right that no-one has to justify to you. That's how rights work.
Actually, I am terrified of New Orleans. My mothers side of the family lives in Biloxi. I went once, aint going back. Chicago is Martha Stewarts living-room in comparison.
... they're doing it while many still have somewhat of a high regard for the franchise. Once Disney's marketing prodigies butcher the upcoming installments, I think that Star Wars may become the poster-child for the evils of unchecked corporate oversight. It may take until the 25th century for that stigma to wane; just in time build a museum in New Chicago.
impotent arguments themselves when caught with an undefendable position. they grew out of it however.
He sold the copyrights and trademarks and all intellectual properties of Star Wars to Disney!