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Showing posts with label george lucas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label george lucas. Show all posts

Sunday, August 3, 2025

George Lucas Makes First Appearance at SDCC...

George Lucas’ Museum of Narrative Art Sneak Peek
FULL Panel - SDCC 2025
We waited for hours, we stood as one, and we shared the excitement and applause with all 6,000+ people in the room as George Lucas made his first appearance ever at San Diego Comic-Con. He was joined by illustrious moderator Queen Latifah, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, and concept artist Doug Chiang. Here is the full panel for your viewing pleasure.

Friday, January 5, 2024

Cancel Culture TRASHES George Lucas!

Disney SJWs Want to PURGE George Lucas from Star Wars!
George Lucas is being targeted by extremist activists at Disney and in Hollywood using recently released files that do not implicate Lucas, but merely mention him. According to one of my sources, they plan to use this disclosure to unjustly SMEAR George Lucas, topple another male icon, and trash his legacy, clearing the way for them to continue subverting and corrupting Star Wars! This is an important report from one of my agents in the field - Cancel Culture is coming for George Lucas, and we have to be careful not to swallow their lies!

Monday, February 8, 2021

Proof the SW Sequels Are in an Alternate Reality

Filoni ALREADY Proved The Sequels
Are in an Alternate Reality!
In this Star Wars Theory we go over the shocking evidence that the Mandalorian already retconned the sequel trilogy using Ahsoka and the World Between Worlds, as seen in Star Wars Rebels used by Ezra Bridger and Ahsoka Tano to save her from Darth Vader.Could Ahsoka herself be the linchpin that holds two possible alternate timelines? One where Ahsoka Lives! And the other, where she dies.

Saturday, December 26, 2020

Ahsoka Tano Behind the Scenes of Mandalorian

- - A H S O K A   T A N O - -
The Mandalorian season 2 brought fan-favorite Ahsoka Tano to the live-action universe, but that won’t be the last time we see Rosario Dawson as Star Wars’ most famous Togruta Jedi. On Thursday, during the 2020 Investor Day call, Disney announced that Ahsoka will get her own live-action series on Disney Plus.

It seems the project is still a long way off so we didn’t get many details on the plot. One thing we do know is that the show is going to be set immediately after the events of Star Wars: Rebels, which means that it should all be before Ahsoka’s meeting with Din Djarin and Grogu. On top of that, this unknown period in Ahsoka’s life could serve as a great setting for us to learn more about the history of the Jedi order.

The Ahsoka Tano series will be created and executive produced by Mandalorian creator and executive producer Dave Filoni. Filoni was an executive producer on the animated series Clone Wars and Rebels, where Ahsoka was an important character, and the writer and director of her big live-action debut. The show will connect to another new Star Wars show, Rangers of the New Republic. According to Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy, the two series will crossover into a climactic event.

According to Disney’s announcement, the Ahsoka Tano series is set to debut sometime in 2022.

Monday, September 7, 2020

The Inspirational Advice of GEORGE LUCAS

The Inspiration of
G E O R G E   L U C A S
George Lucas spoke at the Academy of Achievements Awards, and he tells an inspiring story about how he got into the film business.

Saturday, July 25, 2020

Star Wars Leak - Lucasfilm Upheaval

Is Lucas About to Return?
A new Star Wars leak from a secret source suggests that the situation at Lucasfilm is volatile and big changes may be coming to the company George Lucas founded. Could Lucas be returning in an official capacity to save Star Wars as President of Lucasfilm? Does this mean Kathleen Kennedy is out, or will they be working together? Here are the latest rumors from our sources, although as always please take them with a grain of salt.

Monday, December 23, 2019

George Lucas Goes to See Rise of Skywalker

George Lucas Camps Out
Deepfake George Lucas is back and he can't wait to see Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, to see the conclusion to his Star Wars Saga. Unfortunately he wasn't invited to the premiere, so he's camping out the old fashioned way. Luckily he's got some special cookies from Harrison Ford and Baby Yoda to keep him company.

Monday, June 17, 2019

Lucas Reveals Why No Medal for Chewie

Not Every Hero Gets a Medal
It’s one of the Star Wars universe’s biggest mysteries. Why exactly was poor old Chewbacca the only hero not to receive a medal at the end of A New Hope? There have, of course, been various fan theories explaining the snub over the years. But it’s a statement that director George Lucas gave in 1977 that may settle the matter once and for all.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Strange Magic hits January 2015

Did you know Lucasfilm has made an animated musical fairy tale called STRANGE MAGIC that hits theaters this January?
Strange Magic is a Lucasfilm Ltd. production set to be released by Touchstone Pictures on January 23, 2015.

Here's the official plot synopsis: "Strange Magic is a madcap fairy tale musical inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream. Popular songs from the past six decades help tell the tale of a colorful cast of goblins, elves, fairies and imps, and their hilarious misadventures sparked by the battle over a powerful potion. Lucasfilm Animation Singapore and Industrial Light & Magic, which created the CGI animation for 2011’s Academy Award®-winning film Rango, bring to life the fanciful forest turned upside down with world-class animation and visual effects."
One kingdom that is home to “fairies, elves, imps and all sorts of creatures,” and then a dark forest, which houses “scary goblins and other nasty creatures.” The residents never venture out of their respective worlds…until forbidden love potions, made from flowers that grow along the border, are let loose. At that point, “all heck breaks loose,” Rydstrom says, especially when the two main characters (voiced by Alan Cumming and Evan Rachel Wood) meet. The director says Lucas often emphasized that the story should be about “finding beauty in strange places.”
George Lucas executive produced and wrote the story upon which the film is based. Strange Magic is directed by Gary Rydstrom (Toy Story Toons: Hawaiian Vacation), produced by Mark S. Miller (associate producer Mars Attacks!), with a screenplay by David Berenbaum (Elf), Irene Mecchi (Brave, The Lion King) and Rydstrom.

The voice cast includes Alan Cumming (X2: X-Men United), Evan Rachel Wood (True Blood), Kristin Chenoweth (Glee), Maya Rudolph (Bridesmaids), Sam Palladio (Nashville), newcomer Meredith Anne Bull, Alfred Molina (Spider-Man 2), Elijah Kelley (The Butler), Bob Einstein (Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Peter Stormare (22 Jump Street). Marius de Vries (Moulin Rouge) serves as both the musical director and composer.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

George Lucas Gets Married!

Congratulations to the newlyweds George Lucas and Mellody Hobson!

[Source: HuffPost] The visionary "Star Wars" filmmaker wed the Ariel Investments president before an intimate gathering at Skywalker Ranch, in Marin County, California, at 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 22. 

The ceremony was officiated by journalist Bill Moyers, who famously interviewed the writer Joseph Campbell at Skywalker Ranch for a landmark documentary series in 1988. According to Arianna Huffington, who was in attendance, Moyers spoke so movingly that several married couples said afterward that they felt they'd renewed their own vows.

"It only takes one person to have met the love of your life," Moyers, who was a Baptist minister before launching his illustrious career in journalism, told the bride and groom. Moyers went on to quote the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi: "When I heard my first love story, I was thinking of you."

Lucas' longtime friend and collaborator Steven Spielberg gave the toast from the groom's side, joking that The Force finally had a name: Mellody. John W. Rogers, Hobson's fellow executive at Ariel Investments, spoke on behalf of the bride. And director Francis Ford Coppola read a poem by Maya Angelou.

Van Morrison flew in from Ireland to perform at the reception, which took place on the Skywalker Ranch soundstage. Janelle Monae also performed, and former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, who has known Hobson since she was 17, gave away the bride and offered a toast before the cake-cutting ceremony. 

This is the first marriage for Hobson, 44, who wore a white dress by Peter Soronen and changed skirts between the ceremony and the party. Lucas, 69, has been married once before, to film editor Marcia Griffin. They adopted a daughter together, and Lucas adopted two more children after they divorced, in 1983. Lucas' son, Jett, was his best man, and his daughters, Katie and Amanda, served as bridesmaids. 

In addition to serving as president of Ariel Investments, Hobson is chairman of Dreamworks Animation and a financial contributor with CBS.

Lucas' contributions to popular culture include the Indiana Jones saga, which he co-created with Spielberg, and "American Graffiti," which he directed in 1973. Last October, Lucas sold his production company, Lucasfilm Ltd., to the Walt Disney Company for $4.05 billion. "Star Trek" director J.J. Abrams soon signed on to direct the first in a series of planned "Star Wars" sequels, set to begin filming early next year.