We must be careful though, we know the dangers of using too much CGI. It must be used sparingly, and there must be no skimping in costs when sets or Practical effects might give a more realistic experience (Case in Point: The Old Indiana Jones movies Vs the new ones).
Our CGI is nowhere near ready to start something stupid like that... Yet.
Lovely. You just made a pitch I wanted to do possible much earlier.
Highly likely. But acceptable.
Holy Shit I think George Lucas may have just made himself the most important person in film history.
Do you mean he wasn't already?
I'm being serious though, the stuff he did OTL was just as incredible. Though on a much slower scale as he just really... did a lot of stuff.
He and his companies were responsible for pioneering special effects in the 80's, and made some of the best films of the 80's in that time.
Now... He's just doing the same thing, now he just dosen't have to wait decades for film technology to do it.
Hell, he might actually make the sequels in the 90's this time, since he has the technology to do it.
Did somebody say the Heir to the Empire Trilogy?
It's already one thing to have created the greatest movie ever and be the director of the first billion dollar film. But George also revolutionized VFX and SFX which before were dying practices, and now he's literally pushed the technological limits of film ahead by decades and discovered new techniques to advance telecommunications and computers.
Well unfortunately for the rest of the world, George's Hyper fixation on making good films has not allowed him to really see applications out of filmmaking yet.
Which while unfortunate, is ultimately a good for the world.
We are probably more advanced than most computer companies at the moment and we are singlehandedly the most advanced film company in the world. Motherfucking Empire Strikes Back is gonna be filmed and released in HD. Even the most mundane slice of life style Lucasfilms movies will be the most gorgeous films to look at. We are the Titans of Hollywood and it's all thanks to the brilliant mind of George Lucas, a man held in the same league as Edison, Bell and Ford.
Third most advanced.
We don't have the power of ARPNET, and we are not near the levels of creativity of Apple. But yes, we are advanced.
Thinking on future historiography, I think no matter what kinds of movies Bruce makes, George is always going to be looked at as the most important person in Lucasfilms whose genius propelled it to the height of cinema. However, such a genius would not have been made were it not for an Irish Goose liking a quirky student film and funding an Indie that no one had faith in, and then solely funding a million dollar movie about cruising culture. We're still going to be a legend in culture and entertainment, but people will regard our greatest accomplishment as having met and befriended George Lucas. Hell, our cameo in Forrest Gump might just be Forrest pushing Bruce to invest in THX, if not that then creating Lucasfilms.
Probably.
Though that might change if we manage to do more crazy bullshit that warrents a cameo.
Also you want to know something fascinating? George could have continued along this level of innovation such as Pixar, but he sold most of his assets in 1983 to get liquid funds for the divorce so he could pay Marcia a cash settlement and avoid her taking Lucasfilms or Skywalker Ranch. Here with George and Marcia having a loving and healthy relationship and about to have a kid along the way, all of that is staying within the company. All our competition can make great movies, but we will be known as the people who invented all the tools they used and make the impossible possible for film.
And now there is even more assets that Lucasfilms has, like a full on studio lot, multiple warehouses for special effects and Pixar and Dreamworks.
Oh yeah, its all coming together.
Only thing that would have made the update cooler was if Todd was somehow involved, but with all that has been done I can easily see him looking for employment with Lucasfilms after college, which he probably was already leaning towards to work with his sister and brother-in-law. Todd's already shown promising genius, imagine the stuff he can make with George.
Todd is more about regular cameras, rather then digital cameras.
Also I guess I'm convinced now, after paternity leave is over we need to bring Gavin and the Steves down to Lucasfilms and negotiate a partnership.
THat depends entierly on how much we might be willing to pay.
You also have to wonder how this effects Mike's loyalty to Lucasfilms. Not only is Mike working with the best creative minds in the industry, he's working with a man who pushed film technology decades forwards and he's not stopping. Mike just want to work to Lucasfilms til retirement because even if he's not the head honcho CEO like Disney, as President of Lucasfilms he'll do far more in terms of high quality films and technological advancements than Universal or Disney possibly could.
Mike still might leave just so he has a challenge.
Like seriously, he's now in it for the fact he can make lots of good fucking films. And he might not see that in Lucasfilms in a few years.
With this and Star Wars residuals and toys, George could easily become a billionaire by 1980, and by modern day be one of the richest men in the world with smart investments and continual innovation. This is the kind of shit that makes empires.
And then we become the Disney.
@overmind i think we have become the very thing we hate.
Forget about CGI, think of the amazing leaps that our advanced computers could do for 2d animation. We could soon make digital 2d and make a full transition from cel animation. We could make Ghost in the Shell in the 80s, hell we could make Spiderverse animation by 2000.
Tomino has basically managed to get episodes done in a week, when it used to take him months.
Also good news for you and Duke William, I can imagine that this is going to change Marvels tune about being bought by Lucasfilms, and even if they still want to be independent they might want to make shows and movies through us instead of going in-house. Stan can rightfully point out that going it alone Marvel can make some decent stuff, but if they make their cartoons and live action stuff through Lucasfilms they will have the best possible stories be made and will technically be lightyears ahead of anything DC and Columbia make.
That also depends on what happens in 1980.
And if Stan can win his power struggle and get them to see reason.
Think this is how Tomino made the movie quality Gundam tv episodes?
I imagine he is in the next room over having tested half of this stuff already and noticed massive increases in workflow and such.
Tomino San thanks George Sensei, for the amount of bullshit he has been allowed to do.
Let's not undersell Bruce here. Bruce alongside being a great poducer, actor and director also helped fund and professionalizad stunt action to new heights with his experience and founding the Bruce Lee gym.
and speaking of which... We no longer need to worry about choreography rolls anymore, because they now auto-pass.
Bruce turns LucusFilm into a Christian family friendly company.
You say that now, but wait till Bruce actually has kids. He might decide to make more family friendly fare.
