Film/TV Dec 6, 2010 at 11:54 am

George Lucas Is On the Way to Becoming the Evilest Person in Cinematic History

Paul Constant
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First the Mormons were baptizing them, now Lucasfilm is recasting them!?!
visitor100 on December 6, 2010 at 12:00 PM Report this
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Freaky! He must be stopped.
flippingthroughrecords on December 6, 2010 at 12:01 PM Report this
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Nuke Hollywood Now.
Fnarf on December 6, 2010 at 12:02 PM Report this
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Well that's rather goulish!
kmq1 on December 6, 2010 at 12:06 PM Report this
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Can I pre-emptively buy the rights to George Lucas?
jzimbert on December 6, 2010 at 12:07 PM Report this
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We can only hope that he dies before he creates such an abomination...
Roadflare on December 6, 2010 at 12:10 PM Report this
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@3 From orbit, preferably. It's the only way to be sure.
veo_ on December 6, 2010 at 12:11 PM Report this
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Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn in African Queen 2: The Reckoning
on December 6, 2010 at 12:12 PM Report this
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Ever since Jar Jar Binks, I've always thought George had the morals of a womprat.
Will in Seattle on December 6, 2010 at 12:15 PM Report this
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Calm down. Remember when Ted Turner's colorization fetish was going to destroy our classic movies forever? And nobody wound up liking it, and it disappeared. And now his namesake TCM cable network rocks the B&W for us all day, every day.

Same will happen if Lucas ever does try such a project. It's just a wacky way for him to get rid of a little excess cash. The stars' work in the great old movies is indestructible.
gloomy gus on December 6, 2010 at 12:16 PM Report this
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Do the beneficiaries/inheritors of the dead actors' dead agents get percentages?
Keister Button on December 6, 2010 at 12:17 PM Report this
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I can't wait to see Humphrey Bogart in Star Wars VII.
Fifty-Two-Eighty on December 6, 2010 at 12:19 PM Report this
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This is deeply creepy.
Katy on December 6, 2010 at 12:26 PM Report this
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I would seriously like to have the technology to recreate/reanimate dead actors in motion pictures, with access to scripts that are never greenlighted. I could make my own films on my PC and choose whether or not to distribute them online. Those lost silent films? I could provide my own interpretation. Or better yet, analyze angles, lighting, close-ups, themes of dead directors and package those too. Want to be Satyajit Ray, Robert Altman or Josef von Sternberg? Buy the appropriate "flavour" package. Add soundtracks from dead composers: Max Steiner, Jerry Goldsmith, Alfred Newman for another commodity. Launch parties/award ceremonies at Hollywood Forever and Forest Hills - Glendale and Westwood Mortuary. It would elevate "zombie" films to new levels.
Keister Button on December 6, 2010 at 12:27 PM Report this
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@11 until 70 years after the actor's death, that is when copyright expires
vooodooo84 on December 6, 2010 at 12:31 PM Report this
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15: So George Lucas might/could cast John Bunny, Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, Jean Harlow, Max Linder, Douglas Fairbanks Senior and Marie Dressler in his next film?
Keister Button on December 6, 2010 at 12:35 PM Report this
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Never mind Hitler. If I could go back in time, I'd shoot George Lucas after he made Empire Strikes Back.
Judah on December 6, 2010 at 12:40 PM Report this
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Finally Douglas Fairbanks in "Brokeback Mountain: The Return" and he can star with Rock Hudson!!
Last of the Time Lords on December 6, 2010 at 12:41 PM Report this
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Oh I forgot this one:

"Doctor Who: All Eleven Doctors"
Last of the Time Lords on December 6, 2010 at 12:42 PM Report this
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I remember when Laurence Olivier was "resurrected" as the villain in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I kind of liked it. I kind of liked that whole movie, actually.
Bub on December 6, 2010 at 12:50 PM Report this
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On his way to being cinema's greatest evil? Who's even close? He's on his way to being the evilest Asperger's casualty, closing fast on fucking Hitler!
The Max on December 6, 2010 at 12:58 PM Report this
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#21: who is close?

1. D.W. Griffith, for the pro-KKK Birth of a Nation.

2. Leni Reifenstahl, Triumph of the Will.

3. Pauly Shore.
Sat'n on December 6, 2010 at 1:04 PM Report this
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One step closer to VR Sex with the Stars.
smade on December 6, 2010 at 1:14 PM Report this
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@ 12, a Star Wars/Bogart combo was the first thing that popped into my mind too
sall on December 6, 2010 at 2:10 PM Report this
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My vote for evilest person in cinematic history would go to that director fighting extradiction that rapes people. I think that trumps Lucus's non stop shit factory.
I'm 85 Years Old on December 6, 2010 at 2:39 PM Report this
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@16 and for free, at least he would have to pay to put Buster Keaton in Lawrence of Arabia.
vooodooo84 on December 6, 2010 at 2:43 PM Report this
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I look forward to the next release of Star Wars allowing me to choose between Classic Chewbacca, Humphrey Bogart, Charlie Chaplin or Marilyn Monroe.

And is it too much to hope that he will kill Harrison Ford, buy the rights to him, and produce an ALL HARRISON FORD STAR WARS!

Perhaps faced with the threat of death, Harrison Ford will sell the rights while he's still alive.
Gus on December 6, 2010 at 3:03 PM Report this
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But can he produce a Star Wars movie in which Mark Hamill has his pretty face back?
I'm not going to lie; if Lucas produced episodes VII, VIII, and IX like he'd originally planned to, and made them GOOD (that is, NOT SHIT), it would go a long way towards redeeming him from the overdone mess that was Episode I, the narm-corny-romance-contrived-plot-with-some-good-battle-scenes shitshow that was II and III, and the plotless fanfiction that was The Clone Wars.
Maybe if we brainwashed him into thinking he was a young director who needed to prove his worth? It worked for Darth Revan, right?
venomlash on December 6, 2010 at 3:21 PM Report this
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#26: I am looking forward to "Hard Luck: A New Ending"
Keister Button on December 6, 2010 at 3:25 PM Report this
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oh for fuck's sake.
MichaelPgh on December 6, 2010 at 7:50 PM Report this
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Marilyn Monroe and George Clooney in Oceans 1 through 10 in 3D.
on December 6, 2010 at 8:29 PM Report this
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He's got to go. Fuck this!!
i'm pro-science and i vote on December 7, 2010 at 12:50 PM Report this

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