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Disney buys LucasFilm ! O_O

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Iris Bravemount
Golden Grinding Gears
#81 - 2012-11-06 15:32:47 UTC
Telegram Sam wrote:

But the really vicious thing is how they laid everybody off at the end of the last Star Wars film. Like instantly. People had been working 80-hour weeks for months to meet the release deadline. When they were done, it was like, 12:00 - We're finished! High fives and knuckle bumps! 12:05 - Rapidly deployment team of managers goes around simulaneously firing pretty much the entire production staff. I guess Geo. couldn't afford to pay the guys one more day of pay. Ugh And a lot of these people had been with the company through all three of the prequel films. Not very nice, IMO. Anyway, we'll see what Disney does now.


I know it's harsh and ugly, but a company doesn't keep people around to be nice. Any well run business would get rid of people who are no longer needed. This is not evil, it is common sense.

It would of course have been better to let them know that as soon as this could be foreseen (which is the moment they are hired, since LucasFiml knew that they would make a trilogy), so that they have time to prepare for the day they are done. Telling them the last day is merely an evidence for poor organization/communication within the company.

I'm not even a CEO Cool

"I will not hesitate when the test of Faith finds me, for only the strongest conviction will open the gates of paradise. My Faith in you is absolute; my sword is Yours, My God, and Your will guides me now and for all eternity." - Paladin's Creed
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#82 - 2012-11-06 17:44:43 UTC
Telegram Sam wrote:
The facilities are like a fortress, which is understandable-- they have to protect their IP. But there's kind of a harsh gloomy paranoid feeling in there.



Just exactly how many people that work there do you know ?

I've lived in San Fran for 17 years and know LOTS of folks who work for LucasFilm and ILM. Hang out with them in the neighborhood bar even.

All I can say is you have no idea of what you speak.

Telegram Sam wrote:
But the really vicious thing is how they laid everybody off at the end of the last Star Wars film. Like instantly.


Welp, the job WAS over. Duh.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Telegram Sam
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#83 - 2012-11-06 19:59:24 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Telegram Sam wrote:
The facilities are like a fortress, which is understandable-- they have to protect their IP. But there's kind of a harsh gloomy paranoid feeling in there.



Just exactly how many people that work there do you know ?

I've lived in San Fran for 17 years and know LOTS of folks who work for LucasFilm and ILM. Hang out with them in the neighborhood bar even.

All I can say is you have no idea of what you speak.

Telegram Sam wrote:
But the really vicious thing is how they laid everybody off at the end of the last Star Wars film. Like instantly.


Welp, the job WAS over. Duh.

No, I don't know what I speak of. Those are just my impressions from working as a vendor to ILM and Lucasarts, visiting the campuses, and working with the production guys and the management.
Maybe you've never gotten a pink slip, mate. It's not fun for anybody, no matter how the employer does it. But some employers try to make it a little financially and/or psychologically easier on the employees.
Evoroth Wright
Shang Wright Corporation
#84 - 2012-11-06 20:09:38 UTC
Not sure if this has been mentioned but Lucasfilm also owns the rights to Labyrinth. If Disney remake that, I'm going to cut them.

Shang Wright Corp. Now Recruiting
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#85 - 2012-11-07 03:33:41 UTC
Telegram Sam wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Telegram Sam wrote:
The facilities are like a fortress, which is understandable-- they have to protect their IP. But there's kind of a harsh gloomy paranoid feeling in there.



Just exactly how many people that work there do you know ?

I've lived in San Fran for 17 years and know LOTS of folks who work for LucasFilm and ILM. Hang out with them in the neighborhood bar even.

All I can say is you have no idea of what you speak.

Telegram Sam wrote:
But the really vicious thing is how they laid everybody off at the end of the last Star Wars film. Like instantly.


Welp, the job WAS over. Duh.

No, I don't know what I speak of. Those are just my impressions from working as a vendor to ILM and Lucasarts, visiting the campuses, and working with the production guys and the management.
Maybe you've never gotten a pink slip, mate. It's not fun for anybody, no matter how the employer does it. But some employers try to make it a little financially and/or psychologically easier on the employees.



I got tons of pink slips (as did all in SF during th Dot Boom) and great convos with former emps of ILM. You are just weirdly DOWN.

Nobody laid off from them ever indicated to me that they should have been retained because they were special.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#86 - 2012-11-07 03:38:26 UTC
Evoroth Wright wrote:
Not sure if this has been mentioned but Lucasfilm also owns the rights to Labyrinth. If Disney remake that, I'm going to cut them.


I've already heard chat of a 'Howard The Duck' re-think ! (slits own throat)...........

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#87 - 2012-11-07 03:43:34 UTC
AND.....apparently HARRISON FORD wants in on SW:EP VII.

Ford

Oh, and..... They Live ! Blu-ray.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Evoroth Wright
Shang Wright Corporation
#88 - 2012-11-07 16:44:19 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
AND.....apparently HARRISON FORD wants in on SW:EP VII.

Ford

Oh, and..... They Live ! Blu-ray.



Actually I kind of support this.

Given that the films are likely set after the events of Jedi, Ford, Hamill (if he was thinner) and Fisher could easily all fit into a series of films based on the Legacy of the Force books.

I could see that working and given that Disney also own the Marvel film studio, I'd give them the benefit of the doubt on all things Star Wars.

But as I have said previously, Disney, you touch Labyrinth, I will cut you.

Shang Wright Corp. Now Recruiting
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#89 - 2012-11-07 18:13:51 UTC
Evoroth Wright wrote:
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
AND.....apparently HARRISON FORD wants in on SW:EP VII.

Ford

Oh, and..... They Live ! Blu-ray.



Actually I kind of support this.

Given that the films are likely set after the events of Jedi, Ford, Hamill (if he was thinner) and Fisher could easily all fit into a series of films based on the Legacy of the Force books.

I could see that working and given that Disney also own the Marvel film studio, I'd give them the benefit of the doubt on all things Star Wars.

But as I have said previously, Disney, you touch Labyrinth, I will cut you.



They would surely make Hoggle more aesthetically pleasing to look at, but that's another thread altogether.

I feel another 'trilogy' should focus on other characters and some kind of obscure events in an entirely new setting, just to give dimension to the SW universe. The SW universe is interesting (in that it has an SF setting but no science needed to justify anything at all), but not really widely developed outside of the novels and all that.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882