George Lucas: Still Planning To Make Films, But They Won't Be Shown In Theaters
from the interesting... dept
Back in 2006, we wrote about George Lucas claiming that the $200 million feature film was dead and that he was going to focus on making much cheaper videos for TV or online. That's not entirely what's happened in the interim, but it appears that he may be more serious about focusing on such things now that he's handed over Lucasfilm to Disney. In an interview about what he's working on next, he said that he's still going to make films, but he doesn't expect that they'll be for theater viewing:His last film was this year's "Red Tails," which told the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a legendary black flight unit formed in 1941 that debunked widely held beliefs that black pilots were incapable of fighting in combat. While he described that film as a labor of love, he said, "I'm going to go further out than that. I barely got 'Red Tails' into the theaters. The ones I'm working on now will never get into the theaters."That could mean a lot of different things, but it would be cool to see someone like Lucas really embrace the internet...
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I see what you did there.
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"His last film was this year's "Red Tails," which told the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a legendary black flight unit formed in 1941 that debunked widely held beliefs that black pilots were incapable of fighting in combat. While he described that film as a labor of love,"
Well too little to late there, movies and documentary's were made that were a whole lot better and cheaper than Red Tails. He and that movie did little to shine any light on those brave people.
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not saying he shouldn't be proud he did a movie about that (but, um, it was *already* done, and done well), but maybe if he paid attention to the actual movie rather than HIS 'pride' of 'doing good', he would have shot a better film...
just sayin'...
art guerrilla
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See because a smart Disney exec would be rushing to get the unLucasified Star Wars Trilogy into stores for Christmas.
And there is this little embarrassing thing that the fans have been demanding for years - The Star Wars Christmas Special.
The House of Mouse could make a killing and earn enough good will that the fans would gladly plunk down the cash to see the next 2 of the 3 planned movies.
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Don't forget to include "Return of the Ewok", so "the circle will be complete".
So Disney is going to take over Star Wars, what could possibly go wrong?
Well... I suspect it could go down like this.
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Hopefully he'll use his billions on time traveling and apply this plan to the Star Wars prequels.
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OMGHERD Lucas!
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Red Tails was decent
To those of you who hated "Red Tails": what would you consider a good movie?
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But in all seriousness, even if that doesn't happen it's great that Lucas is exploring different options. Hopefully others will follow his example, he's no stranger to blazing new trails in the film world.
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"I don't know. What?"
"A pilot, you racist!"
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Instead, he retreated into his corner and created nothing but slick, commercial product for 40 years.
Personally, I'd be very excited to see those experimental films, but I'm not holding my breath.
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