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And here we go, folks–time to go the eternal round-de-round of denial and obfuscations and allegations that makes up pretty much every new announcement of any serious quantity.

Today, we’re tackling Lucasfilm’s recent related story that a new Star Wars trilogy was being planned.  And Lucasfilm reacted to this news item with the maturity and levelheaded sense that we’ve come to expect from major studios.

…okay, I couldn’t say that with a straight face. What they REALLY did was push libel like no tomorrow and blamed those darn Internet hoodlums.  Dig the word from Steve Sansweet, Head of Fan Relations at Lucasfilm:

“It wasn’t a news item. It was something that somebody made up. It’s totally totally ignorant and stupid, and even the people who picked it up and spread it along, said there’s no way this can be true. And of course there’s no way it can be true. You shouldn’t believe what you read on the Internet. Take everything with a big grain of salt.”

Yeah, okay…how many times have we heard THAT story before?  And if we shouldn’t believe what we read on the Internet, well, then we shouldn’t believe what ole Steve just spat out, either. He did,  paradoxically, issue his statement online to Movie Geek Feed.

Way to shoot yourself in the foot, jackass.

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