Just... Wow

George Lucas, explained why the Writer's Strike doesn't affect him. Apparently, he hasn't written for years. He showed the interviewer a nifty gadget they used to build action scenes for the prequels.

"Of course, the technology then wasn't quite what it is today. For many of the characters, we still had to use actors, and since the actors needed something to say while they were on the screen, I had to do a little writing here and there. Still," he says, "it was way better than working on the original trilogy. Back then, I had to use a typewriter, or later a word processor, to write a full 120, 130-page script! I hated it so much that after the first one I just hired other people to do it for me. I didn't even read 'em most of the time."

*cries*

The full article is here.

Stop the Presses!

I figured I'd better actually post a new post as some might miss an edited version of the previous one.

One of my far-more-observant-than-I readers pointed out that the article I linked to quoting George Lucas was, in fact, from a site called "TheSpoof.com." This should have been my clue that it was an Onion-like periodical, and not serious. Since it had been linked from a Google News search engine, I thought I was getting the facts! (Or, whatever the media is passing as facts on any given day. But still. I was also in the midst of working on a different project and was not paying terribly close attention.)

So, apologies for furthering the defamation of George Lucas. I can happily laugh at the article now rather than mourn my love of Star Wars.

Thanks dcopulsky and waywardbound for not being taken in by the joke. That'll teach me to pay attention to what I'm citing and frame it differently!