The actor told the Toronto Sun about a recent encounter he had with the director… About the end of the world.
“George Lucas sits down and seriously proceeds to talk for around 25 minutes about how he thinks the world is gonna end in the year 2012, like, for real. He thinks it.
“He’s going on about the tectonic plates and all the time Spielberg is, like, rolling his eyes, like, ’My nerdy friend won’t shut up, I’m sorry…’
“I first thought he (Lucas) was joking… and then I totally realized he was serious and then I started thinking, ’If you’re George Lucas and you actually think the world is gonna end in a year, there’s no way you haven’t built a spaceship for yourself… So I asked him… ’Can I have a seat on it?’
Oh, George.
Counterpoint: Here’s what Katie Lucas has to say about it:
I have no idea if the conversation actually happened. But he would TOTALLY say that. As a joke, obviously. Geez people, its funny. Get over it!
UPDATE: Word from LFL themselves! Beware of snark.
“I spoke with George,” said Lucasfilm rep Lynne Hale in an e-mail to Wired.com about this issue of obvious intergalactic importance.
“He was not serious when he talked about the end of the world in 2012 but he is an adamant believer that the world is flat, that Stonehenge was built by aliens, and that the sun revolves around the Earth,” Hale said. “These are among the many subjects he commonly discusses at length with Elvis, who he’s going to digitally insert into Indy 5 along with a roster of famous dead actors.”
So dare I say this means that George trolled Seth Rogan? So many LULZ.
UPDATE #2: Further your LOL with the snark-deficient.
I guess this means we’ll only get to see Episode I in 3D (ugh), there definitely won’t be a 3rd trilogy and the live action TV series is probably never going to happen…le sigh ;)
I think the big giveaway is the idea that Spielberg would be the skeptic.
It’s Seth Rogen ;).
And you have to know and love George Lucas’s weird sense of humor.
I don’t think it was only humor, because this Mayan prophecy screams “Indiana Jones”. My explanation: GL has been sitting in his library a lot recently to figure out a story for Indy 5, and now he’s a little caught up in it.
The good part about that would be that GL isn’t cuckoo bananas just yet, the bad that another Indy would take place in South America. Which was cool in Raiders and all but that damn crystal skull… O brother… ;-)
Oh, Katie has to have written that reply. Hilarious!