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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.
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"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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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.
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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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!
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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.
Erm... yes and no, but actually no.
The scene you're referring to was added in the special edition (1997). Boba Fett's first appearance was in fact in an animated sequence of the famously bad holiday special (1978) which depicts events a year after episode 4 and 2 years prior to episode 5.
Great Choice Georgee it fits with the theme.
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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.
Chicago. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
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