They say that the main luxury of a being a rich man is the freedom that it brings you. As you don't need to do anything, your day-to-day responsibilities can dissolve into as small a to-do list as you'd like, and you can be as active or lazy as you desire. With more freedom, comes more time to think, and more time for those wheels to turn in your head that can bring with it inspiration, or pure madness. Case in point: Seth Rogen has told
Toronto Sun (via
/film) in an interview that he recently met Star Wars creator
George Lucas and alien-nut Steven Spielberg together, where Lucas embarrassed his old friend by giving a 25 minute passionate lecture to Rogen about how the world will end next year, in 2012. Yup, if there was ever an article to use the 'reveal more' function, this is the one; Rogen says;
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. Hes going on about the tectonic plates and all the time Spielberg is, like, rolling his eyes, like, My nerdy friend wont shut up, Im sorry I first thought he (Lucas) was joking and then I totally realized he was serious and then I started thinking, If youre George Lucas and you actually think the world is gonna end in a year, theres no way you havent built a spaceship for yourself So I asked him Can I have a seat on it? He claimed he didnt have a spaceship, but theres no doubt theres a Millennium Falcon in a garage somewhere with a pilot just waiting to go Its gonna be him and Steven Spielberg and Ill be blown up like the rest of us.
End of the world next year? Maybe Lucas was speaking figuratively, perhaps as a hint towards that
Dead Movie Stars movie he wants to make - which seriously - if he follows through on CGI morphing Humphrey Bogart and Shia LaBeouf into the same movie, then we truly would have hit the end of days! Speaking of 2012 and the end of the world... It would be way more convenient for me if it all happened at the end of next year, that way I'd still get to see The Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers, Spider-Man Reboot, Wolverine 2, Superman: The Man of Steel, The Hobbit, etc - than it would be at the beginning of 2012 - where I would miss out on all that. If someone has the power to make that happen, please do so.