*Star Wars* aficionadi are reeling from the news that Disney has completed the plans to close down LucasArts.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-57577786-235/disney-shuttering-lucasarts-moving-to-licensed-games-model/
Hold fast to hope though! Not all projects are completely lost!
"Although LucasArts itself will halt development of its two major projects, Star Wars 1313 and Star Wars: First Assault, it appears that those games are not dead in the water. A source with knowledge of the decision told CNET that neither game is being fully shut down, but that it has not yet been determined what will happen to them. However, LucasFilm has decided that "Star Wars" games should now be developed either by third-party studios or by Disney Interactive."
Facebook wails aside, it's always curious to me how myopic and narrowly-focused fans can be when it comes to their personal stake in a franchise or its creative talent. Reading Facebook flailings at the above news, I was reminded of an article I read not long after the inimitable George Lucas sold his long-treasured creation.
Now he has sold *Star Wars*, it moaned, what is he going to do to fill in his time?
A-ha! It exclaimed! He is building a museum! He will be filling in his time building a monument to all he achieved with *Star Wars*.
Hmmmm, says I, a long time observer at *Edutopia*. http://www.edutopia.org
Seems to me it isn't George Lucas lacking in creativity or imagination but those fans writing about his perceived "Clayton's retirement".
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/08/usa-georgelucas-museum-idUSL1N0C00NS20130308
"(Reuters) - Filmmaker George Lucas, the creator of "Star Wars," has submitted a bid to build a "storytelling museum" in San Francisco to share his vast collection of contemporary paintings, illustrations and digital art.
Lucas has offered to construct the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum on federal land, run it and stock it with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of art by the likes of Norman Rockwell and Maxfield Parrish. "What he finds most fascinating in these artists is their ability to capture an emotion and tell an entire story in one image," Lucas spokesman David Perry told Reuters.!...Lucas sold Lucasfilm Ltd., his film-making venture founded in 1971, to The Walt Disney Co. for $4.05 billion in 2012. Perry estimated the value of the proposed gift at $1 billion, including the artwork and more than $300 million to construct the museum at the Presidio."
"The semi-retired Lucas described his proposed museum as "a dedication to cultural fantasy" in an interview with CBS This Morning.
"Part of the museum is designed to educate younger people into the idea of storytelling, into the idea of being able to paint your fantasies, which is what 'Star Wars' was," he said.
"'Star Wars' was there to inspire young people to imagine things, to imagine going anywhere in the universe and doing anything you want to do and using your imagination to entertain yourself."
The museum would include five galleries, ranging in size from 4,500 to 8,500 square feet, a 200-seat theater and a 75-seat lecture hall. It would feature breathtaking views of the Bay, Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge.
Lucas bought his first work of art, a page from one of Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge comic books, for $25 when he was a University of Southern California film student. Since then, he has amassed a collection of 150 years of what he calls "fantastical" art.
In a letter accompanying his proposal, Lucas described a childhood trip from his home in Modesto to the de Young Museum in San Francisco as life changing.
"I was drawn in by Norman Rockwell's ability to tell a complete story in a single image," he wrote. "It was then that I began to learn the art of visual storytelling.""
Decision is apparently planned for some time in April. CANNOT WAIT! I know certain fans won't agree with me but I think we are only now seeing the best George Lucas has in store for us all.
Ellen 0:)
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