Tagged: George Lucas

Lucas: Spidey silly, more Star Wars not

Lucas: Spidey silly, more Star Wars not

Okay, let me get this straight — the Spider-Man movies are silly, but Jar-Jar Binks is a nifty idea?

Ohh-kay.  Glad we cleared that one up.

George Lucas tells Fox News‘ Roger Friedman, regarding Spidey, "It’s a silly movie. There just isn’t much there. Once you take it all apart, there’s not much story, is there? People thought Star Wars was silly, too. But it wasn’t." 

Oh, and he’s making two more live-action Star Wars films for TV, which he tells Friedman should be about an hour each, "but they won’t have members of the Skywalker family as characters. They will be other people of that milieu." 

Are Tag and Bink too much to hope for, or are they just too silly?

Roddenberry, Scott, Emsh, & Wolfe: Hall of Famers

Roddenberry, Scott, Emsh, & Wolfe: Hall of Famers

Did you know there was a Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle? Maybe it has something to do with the Space Needle, or the underground city, or the fact that you’ve got to do something while on all that coffee.

One of the things you might be able to do on June 16th is attend their annual Hall of Fame awards. This year, Master of Ceremonies and author Neal Stephenson will be inducting artist Ed Emshwiller, teevee / movie producer/writer Gene Roddenberry, director Ridley Scott  and author Gene Wolfe. They will be joining such people as Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mary Shelley and Isaac Asimov.

Tickets for the June 16 induction ceremony will be available for purchase on Monday, April 30 for EMP/SFM members ($40) and Monday, May 7 for the general public ($50). The evening will include a seated dessert reception and ceremony.