The Dark Herald examines George Lucas Backing Bob Iger over Nelson Peltz, and other Lucasfilm news, including the Acolyte
“Creating magic is not for amateurs. I remain a significant shareholder because I have full faith and confidence in the power of Disney and Bob’s track record of driving long-term value. I have voted all of my shares for Disney’s 12 directors and urge other shareholders to do the same.” – George Lucas
A lot of people are shrieking but I’m not one of them. I did make a joke about Lucas backing Peltz a while back, but I wasn’t serious about it. Anyone who saw him at the premiere of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny could see that he was in worse shape than Joe Biden, and I’m not kidding. He was barely aware of his surroundings and couldn’t move his left arm. He did not give a speech. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn he’s had a stroke.
In 1962, George Lucas had a severe car wreck and took a long time recovering from it, but it sounded like one of those things you never really recover from.
Someone with a four billion dollar fortune is elderly and is in a poor state of health. Lucas will have put his fortune into a trust, and given his fading faculties, it would be a blind trust. Meaning he had no control over how his proxy would be used. Given George’s connections, OR to be much more accurate, his wife’s connections. I wouldn’t be surprised at all to find out that his fortune was being managed by Blackrock, Vanguard, or even ValueAct. Melodie Hobson (Lucas’s wife she took his money but not his name) was the chairman of Starbucks and sits on the board of every Woke company you’ve ever heard of. She makes pretty much all of George’s public statements these days.
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“Creating magic is not for amateurs.” George Lucas would never use the term ‘magic’ in this context. Disney clearly and obviously wrote this statement. It sounds exactly like the kind of thing the flacks who put together the VoteDisney site would write.
It makes me sad more than angry. He couldn’t change his proxy without breaking the trust, and given his infirmity, his managers and his wife would have no trouble challenging him on the grounds of cognitive impairment. His vote was going to Disney whether he wanted it to or not.
He’s an old man who’s fading fast and was undoubtedly being badgered daily by Iger and crew until he finally scrawled something that could be accused of being a signature at the bottom of the prepared statement while mumbling something to the effect of “Fine, I don’t care anymore.”
Such a pity he broke up with Marsha, the Disney deal would never have happened in the first place if she had had a say in it.
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In other Star Wars news, I was briefly terrified last night when I thought I was going to have to spend time watching the Acolyte. I thought it had snuck up on me. You can’t imagine my relief when I found out it was just a trailer.
I had been wondering what this show was going to be. Leslie Headland is not a creative, which in Hollywood means she is going to be the kind of producer that kit-smashes plots together in a two-sentence pitch.
You’ve seen the action and recognized Carrie Anne Moss, which means you’ve probably guessed the pitch: “It’s Star Wars entering the Matrix!”
This is the first Star Wars the High Republic series. Headland’s pitch predates the High Republic, which means that it was just shoveled into that period because she didn’t really care about when it took place. This idea has probably been knocking around in her head since she first developed a crush on Carrie Ann Moss in 1999.
Frankly, it looks terrible. LucasFilm is fundamentally incapable of delivering anything good, and I don’t see how this high concept, High Republic, was ever going to work even if there were talented writers who loved Star Wars working on it.
I suspect that this is going to be a desperate attempt to reboot Star Wars without any of the Skywalkers attached. There may be people who like it, but none of them were ever Star Wars fans. Don’t mourn for Star Wars; it was already dead.
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I was very upset first… now I pity him, by the same token – George Lucas was responsible of choosing his wife, his friends etc.
In the end, he is a first class citizen of Holliweird and no redemption could come from him even when he had his full faculties.
To George The Cuck Lucas … this last touch tarnished your legacy.. maybe you did not deserve one, for sure you are going to get the shit sodden one that your protege KK will leave you with…
RIP Star Wars
Lucas became a non-entity when he took the first three SW movies off the market and made only the awful changed ones available to the public. What a horrible person to deprive people of these landmark movies. I couldn’t care less what he does, he certainly doesn’t care about Star Wars or a successful Disney Co.