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420:
--- Quote ---If George Lucas is as strange as I think he is, there's a good possibilty there'll be an "Episode 3.5: Will you please pass the Jedi Chips" movie about Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi's hiding session.
~Celestial
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Think more... Thanksgiving Day special. Happy Life Day everyone!
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Mo:
George Lucas specifically said in an interview which i read that there will be no more new Star Wars movies. He plans on remaking some in IMAX 3D. As for continuation of the Star Wars stories, the future will be, as always print, and quite possibly a TV show. Movies are done. In fact this year has been the worst year for Hollywood as a whole. It's no wonder why movies have fallen out of favor with Lucas. They are expensive to make, and they more often than not flop at the box office. The future of movies: video games. The video game industry is already larger than Hollywood box-office, budgets on single games are approaching those of Hollywood flicks. Halo 2 for example set the record in first day sales for a video game: $125 Million. Spiderman 2 on the other hand, first day sales of $40.5 million. Both Halo 2 and Spiderman shattered their respective previous records. DVD sales and rental of movies still out performs video games, but it's interesting to see how the box-office is starting to die.
420:
--- Quote ---The future of movies: video games.
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Funny you should bring that up. Years ago when Lucasarts made more than just Star Wars games they had a series of adventure/puzzle games (Sam & Max, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island ect.). One of these games was called The Dig and was originally written as a screenplay and presented to George Lucas. Lucas decided it would cost way too much to make into a movie and instead sent the screenplay to Lucasarts to be made into an adventure/puzzle game.
About a decade later 2 different movies came out, Armageddon had a plot remarkably similar to the beginning of The Dig (Asteroid is going to hit earth and you must travel to it and place nuclear charges at specific locations). The other movie, Mission to Mars was the actual storyline of the rest of the game.
I believe that whole mess shows a trend toward making computer games for a new generation of consumers who are fed up with how expensive and crappy movies have become.
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Mo:
Also to add to that, the producers of Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick signed a deal with Universal for a 3rd movie - which is obvious from the ending to CoR - Anyway due to the poor performance of CoT at the box-office, Universal is contemplating whether or not to release the sequel as a video game only.
Anheg:
No more movies means I am out of a job :P
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