{"id":3409,"date":"2012-01-18T03:33:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T23:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=3409"},"modified":"2012-01-18T03:33:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T23:33:34","slug":"george-lucas-announces-retirement-from-blockbusters-defends-nuking-the-fridge-cinemablend-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/george-lucas-announces-retirement-from-blockbusters-defends-nuking-the-fridge-cinemablend-com\/","title":{"rendered":"George Lucas Announces Retirement From Blockbusters, Defends Nuking The Fridge – CinemaBlend.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On The Daily Show recently, George Lucas told Jon Stewart that it took him decades to get Red Tails made. He wasn\u2019t exaggerating. Lucas fought tooth and nail to get the historical story of the Tuskegee Airmen made, and the battle seems to have exhausted him. So now that Tails is set to open, what passion project will light Lucas\u2019 fire and get him ready to create once again? Um \u2026 well, it\u2019s funny you should ask. Lucas, 67, tells The New York Times that he\u2019s basically going to retire. \u201cI\u2019m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff,\u201d he said, calling Red Tails the last blockbuster project he\u2019ll work on though leaving the door open to a fifth Indiana Jones movie, which has been hinted at by Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford, though both say the ball\u2019s in George\u2019s court. Instead of directing space epics, Lucas will go the route of Francis Ford Coppola, making small and intimate films that pretty much no one will want to see. I\u2019m kidding. Lucas\u2019 THX 1138 is interesting, but if we\u2019re being honest, that came out nearly 41 years ago. Since then, Lucas has directed four of six Star Wars films and produced enough hits to keep 10 generations of Lucas family members in the black. Is Lucas really done with blockbusters? Probably not. As the extensive NY Times feature proves, the man thinks big, and routinely swings for the fences. Sometimes, he misses, as when Indiana Jones crawled into a refrigerator in The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And on that note, Lucas defiantly states that it was his idea, and even came up with a dossier to prove that Indy indeed would survive a nuking of the fridge. \u201cThe odds of surviving that refrigerator \u2014 from a lot of scientists \u2014 are about 50-50,\u201d Lucas told the Times.And the odds of the director being eviscerated by fanboys for that comment are closer to 100 percent.<\/p>\n

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On The Daily Show recently, George Lucas told Jon Stewart that it took him decades to get Red Tails made. He wasn\u2019t exaggerating. Lucas fought tooth and nail to get the historical story of the Tuskegee Airmen made, and the battle seems to have exhausted him. 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