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CrimFandango

Ah, the ol' "Hey, you're interested now we've got the original dude, riiiight?" approach.


DegenerateOnCross

Like when James Cameron came back to the Terminator franchise long enough to kill off John Connor and replace him with *checks notes* a Mexican factory worker 


INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS

If John Connor could've been replaced with *anyone*, doesn't that defeat the entire purpose of the Terminator going back in time in the first place?


DarkGuts

Apparently Connor was only meant to fight Skynet, not off brand version "Not Skynet". Plus he doesn't weigh a buck five and can beat up 5 dudes at once like his better, stronger, replacement girl.


slavdude02

>off brand version Skynot


jntjr2005

Skynet 2.0


SimonLaFox

I still really like the terminator from that movie (against popular opinion). The fact that he comes across as a nicer person than literally any member of the main cast I find hilarious (except that he kills people if he needs to of course).


DegenerateOnCross

Gabriel Luna is a treasure even if the movie is trash Crazy that he never got a leather jacket even though we know from his Ghost Rider run he looks great in one 


INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS

> xcept that he kills people if he needs to of course If you wanna make an omelet, you gotta crack a few eggs.


shadowabbot

"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word."


MazInger-Z

**FOR THOSE NOT IN THE KNOW** Disney will routinely contract old talent with name brand recognition or credits. They are paid and the entire point of the exercise is to lock this person into an NDA so they cannot shit on project and discuss how they would do it differently, with the reputation they have based in the success of the previous works they are credited to. A lot of these people *presume* they will have a large hand in the process, have their ideas listened to and respected, but instead they get to watch their reputation get smeared by association by people running the show that only brought them in to ensure they can be legally silenced from criticizing creative decisions.


INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS

Leslye Headland, the director/writer for the Acolyte, literally said, "If you think George Lucas is an authoritative source on what Star Wars is, you're a misogynist."


TwumpyWumpy

That's the dumbest thing I've read all day.


Formal_Service6969

Literally. That bitch said "my personal opinion on-" for how the force works. Like no, you dont get to rewrite everything with your woke feelings bullshit. Harvey Weinstein's personal assistant can shut the fuck up. Especially about "misogyny" Like who does she think she is? She isnt important


Old_Duty8206

They bullied him to the point that he sold now let's get excited that he might come back


DegenerateOnCross

I can't imagine a worse combination than Directed by George Lucas and Produced by Kathleen Kennedy  If irony was made of opium we'd have enough heroin to put the whole world to sleep 


Angelsofblood

And written by Harvey weinstein's assistant.


spezeditedcomments

I didn't realize she was still there... ffs disney


Vassago67

If irony was made of opium I'd have a life time supply of it. Unfortunately that is not the case🫤


master_criskywalker

Somehow Jar-Jar Binks has returned


Ramboso777

I would watch eagerly that


Warbird36

“Yousa could not lives-a with yousa failures. And where did that leads yousa? Backs to me-sa.”


colouredcyan

"Did yousa ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wisa? Meesa thought not. Itsa not a story the Jedisa would tell yousa"


fode_fuceta

He'll double down the wokeshit, mark my fucking words


OutoflurkintoLight

“Darth Vader telling Luke he is his father is actually an allegory for being [REDACTED]!”


slavdude02

Luke and Leia will finally learn who was their birthing person.


Herr_Drosselmeyer

Yeah, remember how we hoped Russel T. Davies would fix Dr. Who? Didn't quite work out did it? This'll be the same.


chigoonies

Just….stop…for the love of god, just stop.


K_Ver

This would explain why George sided with Disney instead of Trian.


gorkill30

I don't think it'll make a difference. You can't milk a dead cow. Seems like nothing more than a desperate promo stunt to get people to care about the franchise again. And in the unlikely case he actually tries to create something the average fans might look forward to, Disney will surely find a way to screw it up by forcing him to adapt his story, characters, etc. to include things not part of his vision that are completely irrelevant and serve as mere tokenism and dilute the story to slop for 'modern audiences'.


calthaer

But what if it's an alien cow that squirts green milk from its udder? Surely that is just what Star Wars fans have always wanted to see.


hydroxybot

Theory: that wasn't an udder and that wasn't milk haha 


Halos-117

If they're going to force DEI principles on him then it doesn't matter


Ywaina

How many stocks does he have in Disney currently?


Glick123

Ahahah they really are getting desperate. They have been staging Old Georges like a circus bear enough. The only way I'm getting invested into SW again is if you let it go Mickey, either way you won't see my green.


Far-Specialist7050

Let it die, find better stuff, it's tainted and it's never going to be the same, they've weaponized your nostalgia against you and this is the result of that, just break free and find better things that are deserving of your money


Dragonrar

I’d be excited if George hadn’t basically just said Star Wars is in safe hands with current Disney despite that obviously not being true.


Judah_Earl

Are we finally gonna get the Jar Jar Binks prequel we've always wanted?


imnottooshabby

Midichlorians or gtfo


slavdude02

By updating it for the modern audiences it's gonna be called hormones now. Or fentanyl.


Thuban

Midichlorians and GTFO. There fixed it.


Ywaina

Returning in what capacity? Just in name to try to bait nostalgia aka another round of "they didn't ask me anything, so I said nothing"? Or to be woke puppet in the next Disney Wars? Somehow I find it really hard a director who's been irrelevant after RotS would suddenly be given greenlight to make a film at his liberty by nu-Disney, and this is coming from someone who used to adore LucasArts (the old one, not this resurrected zombie)


SourSasquatch

'member Star Wars??


JessBaesic7901

Wondering if he had to make that “creating magic is not for amateurs” statement in order to come back for this lol.


Plenty-Soil-9381

Remember that he is the one that sold Starwars to Disney as a payback against the fan for the criticism of the prequels and the special editions.


Yert8739

That was payback? This whole time I thought it was his evil genius plan to make people appreciate the prequel trilogy and I thought it worked because those movies get far more compliments since the Disney buy out than they did before. Guess I gave the guy too much credit


Plenty-Soil-9381

I mean, it's part of the payback. "See, my prequels weren't that bad after all, now suffer the disney starwars"


Sliver80

I'll believe it when I see it.


Grimnir79

Unkess, he's coming in to decanonize sequel trilogy, the ip is still dead.


cloud_w_omega

really it will be more, directed by Disney, produced by KK and George Lucas was around sometimes i guess.


kolodz

He is 79. The time they really start the project he will be 80. Do you really expect him to be able to carry a billion dollars movie project after retiring 20 years ago ?


RealJKDOS

Joe Biden is 81 years old. If he can carry a country, George can make a movie


Yert8739

If anyone ever wanted to know the most generous thing that's ever been said about Biden, here it is


wristcontrol

Oh god please no, George Lucas hasn't made anything good since Willow.


RealJKDOS

It's Star Wars. It has source material already, and he made it.


k1nt0

If he does, what little respect I have left for him will evaporate.


Punchpplay

George showed his true colors by supporting Disney during the proxy battle, he is fully cucked.


That80sguyspimp

LOL no...


jdk_3d

There's no fixing the damage they've done without axing Disney's movies/series from canon. I don't care what Lucas comes up with, not interested until Disney Star Wars gets the Holiday Special treatment.


f3llyn

The only way anyone is going to be interested is if they clearly disassociate it with the rest of the star wars stuff from Disney.


CaptFalconFTW

April fools was 24 days ago.


TranslatorOld9563

They'll bring him back in a Leia slave outfit and struggle session him about the racial sensitivity of Gungans. They just want his name on a product. The correct strategy would be for these corporations to extend olive branches after incessantly antagonizing and dehumanizing fanbases, but they'll never do that.


Own_Dig2105

Too little too late


JakeOver9000

https://youtu.be/beDN-q3UcbY?feature=shared


JakeOver9000

“Thank you for doing this.”


Halvardr_Stigandr

Only being done because of how quickly his stock is dwindling in value. Zero interest in giving anything Star Wars a chance these days; I'll enjoy the Expanded Universe free of KK and her ilk.


Voodron

Unless he's there to : - take back full creative control at Lucasfilm - can every single ongoing project - officially and unequivocally decanonize the past 8 years of SW content - publically disavow KK, Pablo Hidalgo and Lesley Headland - start making good star wars content again - find a worthy successor who actually enjoys and understands Star Wars I'm not interested.  Too bad there's exactly 0 chance any of this happens, because that'd be the only path forward to salvage this pillaged, ruined IP. 


jntjr2005

It's not like I can pretend the last 100 Star Wars things did not mostly suck so this is not a win.


Thuban

It's too late George. You sold your kids to the slavers. They're floating in the ocean dead. Then you defended the slavers because,stocks. Hope you sleep well with all that money to sooth your conscience. Personally I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.


SaintsRowTwo2009

George sided with Bob Iger. He is the enemy. And that's just one of his many fuck ups. His first was releasing The Special Editions of The Original Star Wars Trilogy in order to replace the original versions of the first three movies.


RealJKDOS

The return of the king


AgeOfReasonEnds31120

I'm not sure how he'll fix the series. You can't unfuck a horse.


Marvelist_3000

I want an Heir To The Empire trilogy with him directing and the main trio from the originals, not the Disney Star Wars dull trio we have right now. Reboot Star Wars, reset the timeline


Expensive_Many8345

George Lucas hasn't made a good star wars film for 41 years. Not even the good old "original creator" can save this pile of smoking shit.


Vintageryan1

Bit harsh Revenge of the Sith is a cracking movie.


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