When Disney absorbed LucasFilms into its
gargantuan mass,
sci-fi fan boys the world over let out an echoing sigh of relief. For
reasons
I’ll get into when I finally get around to the latest Star Wars film, I
was not
one of them. However, when the company changed hands, there was a
project that
was still in-development under George Lucas. It was a pet project of
his,
something he wanted to make that his daughters could watch; what Star
Wars was to 12-year-old boys, this would be to 12-year-old girls. Words
from the man himself, in case his lack of common sense wasn't already
well known. This is something he had been working on since around the
time the prequels were first being developed, going through different
hands to
finally realise Lucas’ vision. Since this vision includes the words
‘romance’
‘musical’ and ‘based on the works of Shakespeare’, I can hardly wait to
see the
sudden realisation that just because LucasFilms changed hands, that
doesn’t
mean that they are immune from making failures. So, in preparation for
what
will be the inevitable let-down of galactic proportions in a week or so,
let’s
take a look at the first release from the ‘legendary’ studio
post-Disney.
