When Jar-Jar Binks ran roughshod over the dreams of a generation, few people realised that Star Wars creator George Lucas wasn?t just taking a massive CGI turd in the bedside slippers of their collective nostalgia.
He was also using him to send the ?apocalyptic warning in the headline.
The neckless sci-fi titan apparently believes that the world will end in the year 2012. At least that's according to, ahem, comedian/actor Seth Rogan.
Rogan, after a recent meeting with he-who-can-create-and-destroy-childhoods-at-the-click-of-his-fingers, told someone somewhere:
“George Lucas sits down and seriously proceeds to talk for around 25 minutes about how he thinks the world is going to end in the year 2012, like, for real. He thinks it.
“He’s going on about the tectonic plates and all the time Spielberg is, like, rolling his eyes, like: “My nerdy friend won’t shut up, I’m sorry…”
“I first thought he was joking… and then I totally realised he was serious and then I started thinking: “If you’re George Lucas and you actually think the world is going to end in a year, there’s no way you haven’t built a spaceship for yourself… So I asked him: “Can I have a seat on it?”
“He claimed he didn’t have a spaceship, but there’s no doubt there’s a Millennium Falcon in a garage somewhere with a pilot just waiting to go… It’s going to be him and Steven Spielberg and I’ll be blown up like the rest of us.”
Presumably Spielberg has a far more optimistic view of what will happen. Involving spacious surburban neighbourhoods that contain friendly aliens but are hopefully light on killer sharks.
Of course this could all be bullshit.
It's quite likely that Seth Rogan, having made such a valiant effort to ruin the reputation of visual genius Michel Gondry with The Green Hornet, is on some kind of evil mission to discredit every director in Hollywood. Not that George Lucas really requires Rogan?s assistance, admittedly.
Let's just hope that if George Lucas?s next project to ruin movie history- to master the technology to insert dead screen stars into new films- won't be ready until 2013.
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Joe Momma says
I may be a little slow here but is George Lucas gay with Steven Spielberg?