George Lucas to quit movie industry

[ChrisIII]

According to Variety, after "Indiana Jones IV" and "Red Tails" are completed, Lucasfilm is going to focus entirely on television (Although presumabely ILM and other Lucas companies will continue to focus on film).

http://www.variety.com/VR1117951284.html

[Silliw 2]

Yeah, until the new Star Wars trilogy comes out.

Come on, you know he'll do it.

[Magneto_X]

If only he'd give the reigns to his franchises (Indy and Star Wars) to other people.

The PT have shown he doesn't have in it in anymore and even the best people around him can only do so much to save whatever he's working on.

I weep for Indy IV.

[Davideaux]

How is he going to pay his water and electricity bills now?

[Frankie Dennis]

You can never take a word that man says seriously.

[hoffmandu]

Ya know, there is a remote chance he will do another set. Lets say, in another decade.......who's to say he wouldn't write a few scripts in the next ten years or so.

[Buzz Dixon]

Three films too late, if you ask me...:rolleyes:

[Sanagi]

Yeah, and he's not releasing the original versions of Star Wars IV-VI on DVD either.

[Ontir]

The good news, is that Spielberg is still going to direct "Indy IV," so it should be passable.

I'm not surprised by the news. Everything in the industry is about convergence, and the cinema chains know it, which is why they are busily re-tooling themselves into "Entertainment Centres," as opposed to "Movie Theatres." Given the strangle-hold that the majors have had, and continue to enjoy, via a variety of control devices, there are actually greater freedoms to be found with outlets such as HBO and Showtime, and even those are going to be seen as highly restrictive, as convergence continues. Lucas is just the first of the majors/mini-majors/indies (and oddly, he's all 3), to say it out loud.

[DLFerguson]

Give up on Harrison Ford and George Lucas and INDIANA JONES IV.
Hire Dennis Quaid as the new Indiana Jones and let Steven Spielberg direct and produce a new trilogy of films on his own. Maybe then we'll see a new Indiana Jones adventure before we're all collecting Social Security.

[Motormouse]

Give up on Harrison Ford and George Lucas and INDIANA JONES IV.
Hire Dennis Quaid as the new Indiana Jones and let Steven Spielberg direct and produce a new trilogy of films on his own. Maybe then we'll see a new Indiana Jones adventure before we're all collecting Social Security.

Son, this isn't James Bond. There's only one Indiana Jones!

[DLFerguson]

Son, this isn't James Bond. There's only one Indiana Jones!

And if we had that kind of thinking when Sean Connery first left the role the James Bond series would have ended back then.

I consider Harrison Ford to be the definative Indiana Jones just like I consider Sean Connery the definative James Bond but doesn't mean I don't like and enjoyed Goerge Lazenby, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan when they played Bond.

And I'm sorry...15 years is more than enough time to get your act together and make the mollyfoggin' movie IF that's what you really want to do.

[Ontir]

Son, this isn't James Bond. There's only one Indiana Jones!

Actually, there have been 3 already: Harrison Ford, of course, the late River Phoenix, and Sean Patrick Flanery. If the part is to be re-cast, which I think would be wise, then it really ought to go to Flanery (41), who could play the part over the snail's-pace development time the films seem to require.

[Hush Little Batman]

I love the Indiana Jones trilogy (though I find ToD very silly), and I was very happy with the way Last Crusade literally had the characters ride off into the sunset. I would rather Lucas leave it alone and not ruin the series/characters with something stupid.

[Buzz Dixon]

That's what people said about the original STAR WARS trilogy, but did George listen? Nooooooooooooooooo!

[OverMaster]

I still think Ford's already too old for the Indy role.

And, Lucas? Meh if I care.

[The Batman]

I don't think that George Lucas is necessarily quitting the movie industry (ie making movies), only reconsidering the avenue through which he distributes his projects.

Reading the article it seems to me that alot of what he's saying makes sense.

[saintsaucey]

The good news, is that Spielberg is still going to direct "Indy IV," so it should be passable.


Did us see war of the worlds.

thank god lucas is out of the movies. he should have given the rights to star wars to people like tim zahn and kevin anderson. and michael stackpole and aaron alston. hell even kathy tyers came up with more plausible story lines than george.

[Stellar]

Hire Dennis Quaid as the new Indiana Jones

Agreed. Quaid can put down the Indy look and personality, i've always thought he and Ford looked somewhat alike.

[DLFerguson]

Agreed. Quaid can put down the Indy look and personality, i've always thought he and Ford looked somewhat alike.

In most of his recent movies it's uncanny how much he resembles Harrison Ford and at times he evens sounds just like him. And he's proven that he's got the physicality necessary for the part.

[Ontir]

Did us see war of the worlds.

thank god lucas is out of the movies. he should have given the rights to star wars to people like tim zahn and kevin anderson. and michael stackpole and aaron alston. hell even kathy tyers came up with more plausible story lines than george.

Yeah, I saw it, which is why I said "passable," like pretty much everything he's done for the last 15 years or so.

I think the problem with the 1st trilogy, was that he had mainly the 3rd film, and nothing else. Instead of doing one really good film, he felt he had to stretch it to 3, and there just wasn't enough material. He also screwed up royally be bringing in the immaculate conception, and starting Annakin so young. It would've been better, if we'd gotten to see more of him in and around the temple, and get a glimpse much earlier, as to why exactly the Jedi Masters were so fearful of his potential. I also was really disappointed that the Jedi were wearing the same rags that Ben wore on Tattooine. He was in exile and hiding, passing himself off as a madman of the dunes when ep 4 picks up, as a functioning Jedi Knight, he and the others ought to have worn something... better!

That said, Lucas isn't giving up movie-making, he's just focusing on direct to viewer distribution, instead of the cinemas. As people increasingly install 60" (and larger) screens in their homes, with surround sound systems, the experience that can be had rivals, and in some ways surpasses that of the cinema - at least for the time being!