So: Savor it, Rebel Scum! I mean no faint praise when I say the actual movie at the end of director and co-screenwriter J.J. This week may represent the last time that Star Wars Anticipation thrives as a sport, or that the prospect of a new entry feels in any way exotic. The Force Awakens is the first of six due just between now and 2020. The six old ones - only two of which, let us remember, were truly great - arrived over a span of 28 years. The makers of the coming Star Wars films have been announced. ![]() Before he sold Lucasfilm in 2012, he did all he could to alienate his constituency of aging nerds. Another divisive term you won't find prominently featured on this thing: "George Lucas." The ruddy, pompadoured visionary who bolted Star Wars together out of Flash Gordon and Akira Kurosawa and Joseph Campbell and John Ford - who changed the industry, maybe for the worse, but so far forever - has been banished to the farthest reaches of the galaxy with a Disney check for $4 billion.
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