EENIE-MEENIE, MINEY-MO, CATCH’A GUNGAN BY HIS TOE… On that date, George Lucas and Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that Disney would be acquiring LFL and all of its properties for just over $4 billion. I thought the saga had ended with a long, loud fart sound from 1999 to 2005, but now, redemption was on the horizon! “More Star Wars movies,” I said to myself.
October 30, 2012Ī date which will live in - hmmm. The three most evil men in the Star Wars saga. However you feel about the prequels, the fact that Star Wars as a brand not only survived them but prospered from them, says more about the timeless brilliance of the original unaltered trilogy than anything else. If anything, Lucas second-guessed himself while McCallum let him stew and tried to figure out the best way to act producerly in the midst of trouble. Wearing the same clothes? That’s low even for brown-nosing standards. Oh, and he was the heavy for George: kicking ass, taking names, keeping the budget and schedule on point, all so George could realize his Gungans and whiny Jedi. I don’t know of any evidence that McCallum gave Lucas anything other than sympathetic puking and lip service about how great he thought the prequels were. Kinda like this guy, also dressed in black: My liege, Jar Jar Binks is a fucking FANTASTIC character. “…once you agree with the director about the script…criticize them when they need to be…”Īs you can see, McCallum has a commanding tone of voice, is well-spoken, quick-witted, and is very direct and sure of himself. In the video here below, at the 2:10 mark, we hear McCallum’s own thoughts on what a producer is. Here below, McCallum sums up the entirety of the prequel trilogy: Yet most famously, or perhaps infamously, McCallum is the man who most directly enabled George Lucas to take a massively misguided, or perhaps unguided, step toward adding episodes to the Star Warssaga. I’ve never seen one of those episodes but I understand that they were quite good. Rick McCallumĪ producer in the very truest sense of the word, McCallum joined LFL when production began on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. There will be a substantial reward for the one who finds Kennedy and McCallum.
Here following are the ways in which McCallum and Kennedy put shame on the once-great entertainment name of Star Wars.
Obviously, no one could measure up to producer Gary Kurtz in terms of helping to shape the saga, but really. The question posed is a seemingly simple one: The matter concerns Kathleen Kennedy and Rick McCallum.