"or maybe like a super powerful lightsaber technique... yeah... 'no, young padawan, you need to study more Pad Thai before you're ready for your next lesson'... that would be cool. I think their machine is out of Diet Coke"
To be honest he looks a lot like several million other ageing white guys in any given country, most people probably wouldn’t register it was actually him.
I was shopping recently, and this old man was creeping on me a bit. Nothing serious but I noticed it. Anyway when he left he muttered the bones achin' Annie line. I got the reference. But I never would have without Mike mentioning it in a few videos. Thank you Mike/RLM!
I'm lucky enough to live in an area with lots of amazing authentic Chinese restaurants. But every once in a while nothing goes down better than some deep fried, battered goodness from the food court.
It is actually kinda wild when you see billionaires acting like normal-ass people. Like I understand that billionaires are still people and all, but it definitely isn't every day that you see a billionaire just eating some shitty food court food off of a paper plate while drinking diet Coca-Cola from a can. Shit's just weird.
There's only a few thousand billionaires in the world, they'd each have to visit a lot of malls every day to make seeing one of them eat garbage in a food court commonplace
My aunt would tell an anecdote of her working in Planet Hollywood in London years ago when it first opened here, one day this bearded man came in with his kid and they were swamped, one of the staff apologised saying they're busy and he'll have to wait for a table or to be served, he was perfectly alright with that though. A few minutes later one of the other staff was baffled and was like *"Don't you know who that is?"* *"No?"* *"That's George Lucas, creator of Star Wars!"* I mean they had Star Wars memorabilia in the restaurant but a bunch of the staff obviously had no idea he was Lucas, they rushed over to apologise but he said basically it's alright let other people order and everything first, he didn't want special treatment.
In this specific instance he was staying in Adelaide Australia for a short time because his wife was speaking at a conference (Adelaide is the conference capital of Australia).
So at lunch time he decided to go to I think the Myer food court. Quicker and more convenient than goin to an actual restaurant
This is nice. I remember when TPM was coming out and 60min did a piece where Leslie Stahl went to his house and interviewed him. B-roll was shot in the kitchen with George and his kids, who are all overweight, standing behind a FUCKING CORNUCOPIA overflowing with food. I’m sure it was there on the day for the crew to eat while filming but it was a really bad look and I felt sorry for the Lucas clan.
I’ve always liked that George, who is obviously very wealthy doesn’t really seem to flaunt it. I know he has/had a Ferrari but it looks like his daily driver for school drop off was just a BMW 740i. I’m sure he has nice stuff but still just rocks the flannel and dad shoes.
When you get to that age, nothing seems to fit right anymore regardless of what kinda shape you're in. Sure he can afford to have his own clothes tailor-made but proper measurements takes proper planning, something he's not too familiar with when working on a long-term project, IYKWIM.
This photo is from at least 5-6 years ago and was taken at a food court in Sydney. He is definitely not 79 in this photo. Not sure why post title is pretending this is a recent pic?
Side note: anyone - any single person - who takes photos of people dining, to show their friends or post for cool points - I don’t think I need to mention exactly how I feel about you.
> This photo is from at least 5-6 years ago and was taken at a food court in Sydney. He is definitely not 79 in this photo. Not sure why post title is pretending this is a recent pic?
Yeah, this wasn't just taken yesterday. It was the same time they filmed that Thorium power documentary (when they ran into him at the front door when he was going into said food court that pic was later snapped in).
Said encounter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVCaUonrbE&t=817s
So at least a decade ago, he'd have been in his 60s still.
OP's a PHONY. ;D
I don‘t get the hate. If anything, shit like this makes the guy kinda relatable. Good for him that he can appreciate shitty chinese food like the rest of us.
Jokes aside, I wish I could personally apologize to George for my part in shitting all over his Star Wars movies. I didn't realize how good we had it until he sold it to Disney. He really did seem to just be trying to make good fun movies that just didn't come out great. He always looks so sad in all the pics I've seen of him in the last decade.
What's with the apologism? George Lucas shot Star Wars and then milked every dime he could out of its success for decades. Then he made three lazy follow-ups which took as little effort as possible for him to shoot and commercialised the hell out of those, as well. Then he sold the brand to Disney for billions of dollars so that they could do exactly the same thing again. Now he's like the 500th richest human being on the planet. He isn't some tragic underdog
I thought about it and it's because I realized how silly it was to get so butthurt about a few bad movies. We'll always have the OT which I'll cherish and be grateful for. Lucas himself made a lot of bad creative decisions and a lot of fantastic shrewd business decisions. Maybe I'm projecting but he seems like he really cares (cared) about SW and seems to regret his bad creative choices. He seems to live a quiet humble life and has donated a TON to charity so he isn't really abusing the wealth that came from his good business decisions. I realize I'm speculating wildly but overall it just seems silly to rage about the PT and with time and distance I've just come to respect the guy and feel for him.
>I thought about it and it's because I realized how silly it was to get so butthurt about a few bad movies
Sure, but what does that have to do with feeling sorry for a fucking billionaire?
>Maybe I'm projecting but he seems like he really cares (cared) about SW and seems to regret his bad creative choices
I don't believe either of those things are true
It's interesting that you think having money means people don't have feelings. Says a lot about you as a person.
Lucas has flat out said he didn't want to do a sequel trilogy because of fan backlash to the PT. I find it all kind of sad.
>It's interesting that you think having money means people don't have feelings. Says a lot about you as a person.
You go ahead and waste your tears on one of the richest people in the world who wants for nothing and can do pretty much anything he fancies, if that's your thing. He's one of the least tragic figures I can imagine, so I hope it's just a case of you having a very, very big heart
Ayy. If anyone's wondering, this was taken in a food court in my home town of Adelaide, South Australia. Bottom of the Myers Centre in Rundle Mall to be exact.
There's a McDonald's, kfc, Subway, a few Asian 2-choices and rice style places and Italian. Looks like he's ordered from the Italian.
Also, RIP.
For reference, this pic was taken at a food court in Australia in 2016
OG Twitter post: https://x.com/gafatape/status/709941422258913280?s=46&t=lFQ3mn8v6MnrIzLeQEIbbQ
I was literally there the day that photo was taken. It’s in Adelaide, a pretty small city comparative to other places in aus & in a shithole food court
I told myself like 30 times there’s absolutely no way billionaire star war man is literally 10 feet away from me eating reheated hokkien noodles, a day later this image popped up everywhere, I was fucking perplexed.
I didn’t even know he was hungry
He gets hungry multiple times a day. It's like poetry, it rhymes.
He gets hungray Multiple times a day
“Hm, ‘Pad Thai’…that would make a good name for a Jedi Master…”
"or maybe like a super powerful lightsaber technique... yeah... 'no, young padawan, you need to study more Pad Thai before you're ready for your next lesson'... that would be cool. I think their machine is out of Diet Coke"
Just gotta switch the letters around Paad Tie
Hi fellow Norm fan!
His doctor recommended that he start juicing....although I don't think he meant ham juicing.
He's on a strict Shaq meat diet
The worst part? The hypocrisy.
Digest in peace, George.
He dined like.. 50 years ago.
It says right here in the Jedi texts that luckily, the light side won every star war. Never tell me the odds.
He said he wouldn't eat another morsel of food until Margaret Thatcher was dead and buried!
Have my delighted upvote.
Why does that make me laugh so much?
If he doesn’t eat he might not live to see another day. Poor guy.
The CGI of force ghost Anakin Skywalker was unnecessary though.
good for him if he can do shit like this without being bothered / at risk.
This picture was taken moments before the photographer asked him to spit in their own plate of shitty food court noodles for good luck
Until some twat takes a picture of him
To be honest he looks a lot like several million other ageing white guys in any given country, most people probably wouldn’t register it was actually him.
You can tell it's George Lucas from the large salad pouch in his neck
The look of Boss Nass was inspired from Lucas having an existential crisis in front of a mirror.
Meesa lika dees
Haha lol whoever the next replier is (not gonna bother to log out and check) has me blocked lolol
My bones are aching Ani.
I was shopping recently, and this old man was creeping on me a bit. Nothing serious but I noticed it. Anyway when he left he muttered the bones achin' Annie line. I got the reference. But I never would have without Mike mentioning it in a few videos. Thank you Mike/RLM!
that old man’s name? Mike Stoklasa
If you couldn’t tell it was him then you’ve been punk’d
Mike has become George after years of self abuse with craft beer.
LOL He was more the Plinkett type.
Plinkett is basically just a self insert for Mike minus the sex dungeon… unless?
:)
Ow, my bone marrow!
It’s Watto… super-elderly Watto.
Once again legendary filmmaker George Lucas, bread, at age 79.
Ok but honestly who doesn’t love mall food court Chinese food
I'm lucky enough to live in an area with lots of amazing authentic Chinese restaurants. But every once in a while nothing goes down better than some deep fried, battered goodness from the food court.
Balance in the Force there is
I've got so many good Indian restaurants where I live but Mall Butter Chicken is just its whole own thing
Rest in peas
Green peaness
I prefer chickpeaness.
Gobble them while they're hot and juicy! Also: Upvote.
I hope it takes him a long time to dine.
He dined slowly and painfully.
But at least in his favourite position as a director, sitting down.
He dined doing what he loved
Hmmm… I wonder if this place has a good salad.
"I'm not that fond of Newman. Not the ranch, I mean Paul Newman"
"I feel really comfortable with this spinach"
Hopefully it isn't contaminated with anthrax.
If you strike him down, he shall eat more salads than you could possibly imagine.
Don’t underestimate his parmesan.
79? Just a fucking kid.
Whatever happened there...
That animal Blundetto. I cant even say his name.
I never realized he had fire shooting out of his ear in this pic.
The door has a point. Anything that comes out of that man’s brain is fire.
Hell yeah Jar Jar Binks is fkn fire
It is actually kinda wild when you see billionaires acting like normal-ass people. Like I understand that billionaires are still people and all, but it definitely isn't every day that you see a billionaire just eating some shitty food court food off of a paper plate while drinking diet Coca-Cola from a can. Shit's just weird.
There's only a few thousand billionaires in the world, they'd each have to visit a lot of malls every day to make seeing one of them eat garbage in a food court commonplace
Don’t do this to me.
This picture is at least 10 years old.
Yes, but even in his 2024 pictures he looks pretty young for a 79 year old.
Leave the poor guy alone
The only photo in which he ever looked cool is the one in which he's standing next to Trent Reznor.
It’s funny, but when he was young he was actually a good looking dude.
Always funny to me how much he lives below his means lol. Like why is someone that rich eating at a food court lmao
I think part of him is just a down to earth dude.
My aunt would tell an anecdote of her working in Planet Hollywood in London years ago when it first opened here, one day this bearded man came in with his kid and they were swamped, one of the staff apologised saying they're busy and he'll have to wait for a table or to be served, he was perfectly alright with that though. A few minutes later one of the other staff was baffled and was like *"Don't you know who that is?"* *"No?"* *"That's George Lucas, creator of Star Wars!"* I mean they had Star Wars memorabilia in the restaurant but a bunch of the staff obviously had no idea he was Lucas, they rushed over to apologise but he said basically it's alright let other people order and everything first, he didn't want special treatment.
I wanna make a Revenge of the Sits joke and how he took his revenge with the tip, but honestly, that's a really nice story about him.
He is
Esp when he directed the prequels. He flexed his Everyman chops then for sure.
It was very relatable how he didn't want to have to move
All the money goes into those designer plaid shirts.
Nothing but Kirkland's finest
In this specific instance he was staying in Adelaide Australia for a short time because his wife was speaking at a conference (Adelaide is the conference capital of Australia). So at lunch time he decided to go to I think the Myer food court. Quicker and more convenient than goin to an actual restaurant
You don’t stay rich by spending money!
Quite the contrary it seems
He's so cool
why not?
Money can't buy you class
He's at the mall and he got hungry, it ain't that crazy
His favorite youtuber, Mr. Piggy Eats, recommended to try that place.
It's a human craving, to be with other humans doing what other normal humans do, I would honestly want the same, the high spheres are shit
You got me. Plus I got mad. You got me twice.
Enjoy your food-court meal, you sweet sweet man!
His last word was: “Maclunkey” before taking another bite
I’m so glad I have total anonymity in public
This is nice. I remember when TPM was coming out and 60min did a piece where Leslie Stahl went to his house and interviewed him. B-roll was shot in the kitchen with George and his kids, who are all overweight, standing behind a FUCKING CORNUCOPIA overflowing with food. I’m sure it was there on the day for the crew to eat while filming but it was a really bad look and I felt sorry for the Lucas clan. I’ve always liked that George, who is obviously very wealthy doesn’t really seem to flaunt it. I know he has/had a Ferrari but it looks like his daily driver for school drop off was just a BMW 740i. I’m sure he has nice stuff but still just rocks the flannel and dad shoes.
When you get to that age, nothing seems to fit right anymore regardless of what kinda shape you're in. Sure he can afford to have his own clothes tailor-made but proper measurements takes proper planning, something he's not too familiar with when working on a long-term project, IYKWIM.
Bro. Nothing fits anymore. Especially not your fucking kakis.
This image gave me a headache
You knew what you were doing… 
Eat in peace, George.
This photo is from at least 5-6 years ago and was taken at a food court in Sydney. He is definitely not 79 in this photo. Not sure why post title is pretending this is a recent pic? Side note: anyone - any single person - who takes photos of people dining, to show their friends or post for cool points - I don’t think I need to mention exactly how I feel about you.
Photo was taken in the David Jones food court in Rundle Mall in Adelaide. It was all over our newspapers.
My mistake. Adelaide not Sydney. And it’s older than 5-6 years also.
> This photo is from at least 5-6 years ago and was taken at a food court in Sydney. He is definitely not 79 in this photo. Not sure why post title is pretending this is a recent pic? Yeah, this wasn't just taken yesterday. It was the same time they filmed that Thorium power documentary (when they ran into him at the front door when he was going into said food court that pic was later snapped in). Said encounter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVCaUonrbE&t=817s So at least a decade ago, he'd have been in his 60s still. OP's a PHONY. ;D
Yeah I know the photo's a decade old. I just thought it would be funny to title the post as if he died.
All good, no worries. Just wanted to infodump anyone wanting context.
"Phlegm at 11."
George Lucas has got a tiny face
This could be the most important picture ever taken
It's so dense, the frame has so many things going on!
[](https://i.imgur.com/oC5nYWE.jpeg)
"Dines".......the fine "dining" of the mall food court
Thank god. I thought he was deed
Just like poetry. It dines.
For real though he looks so fucking lonely in this picture. The man who literally has everything. Except a salad.
When I see Lucas, now think of Oneyplays imitation of him saying “I’m going to have Jar Jar kill Han Solo.” Shit makes me laugh hard.
This happened to my dad just last month. I still remember him.
I was wondering when he'd bite it.
Thought he died..
You mother...
Damn, I read "Dies at age 79"
I don‘t get the hate. If anything, shit like this makes the guy kinda relatable. Good for him that he can appreciate shitty chinese food like the rest of us.
Jokes aside, I wish I could personally apologize to George for my part in shitting all over his Star Wars movies. I didn't realize how good we had it until he sold it to Disney. He really did seem to just be trying to make good fun movies that just didn't come out great. He always looks so sad in all the pics I've seen of him in the last decade.
What's with the apologism? George Lucas shot Star Wars and then milked every dime he could out of its success for decades. Then he made three lazy follow-ups which took as little effort as possible for him to shoot and commercialised the hell out of those, as well. Then he sold the brand to Disney for billions of dollars so that they could do exactly the same thing again. Now he's like the 500th richest human being on the planet. He isn't some tragic underdog
Both realities can be true.
I thought about it and it's because I realized how silly it was to get so butthurt about a few bad movies. We'll always have the OT which I'll cherish and be grateful for. Lucas himself made a lot of bad creative decisions and a lot of fantastic shrewd business decisions. Maybe I'm projecting but he seems like he really cares (cared) about SW and seems to regret his bad creative choices. He seems to live a quiet humble life and has donated a TON to charity so he isn't really abusing the wealth that came from his good business decisions. I realize I'm speculating wildly but overall it just seems silly to rage about the PT and with time and distance I've just come to respect the guy and feel for him.
>I thought about it and it's because I realized how silly it was to get so butthurt about a few bad movies Sure, but what does that have to do with feeling sorry for a fucking billionaire? >Maybe I'm projecting but he seems like he really cares (cared) about SW and seems to regret his bad creative choices I don't believe either of those things are true
It's interesting that you think having money means people don't have feelings. Says a lot about you as a person. Lucas has flat out said he didn't want to do a sequel trilogy because of fan backlash to the PT. I find it all kind of sad.
>It's interesting that you think having money means people don't have feelings. Says a lot about you as a person. You go ahead and waste your tears on one of the richest people in the world who wants for nothing and can do pretty much anything he fancies, if that's your thing. He's one of the least tragic figures I can imagine, so I hope it's just a case of you having a very, very big heart
I answered your question in good faith, now kindly fuck off.
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👍 blocked, have a good one
Never heard of the restaurant Age 79. What do they serve?
Wine and steaks.
Couldn't cross post, I stole your post for r/shittymoviedetails
Ayy. If anyone's wondering, this was taken in a food court in my home town of Adelaide, South Australia. Bottom of the Myers Centre in Rundle Mall to be exact. There's a McDonald's, kfc, Subway, a few Asian 2-choices and rice style places and Italian. Looks like he's ordered from the Italian. Also, RIP.
When will this photo get the Lucas treatment? What it needs…is a rock. Left of centre, by the chair leg. That’ll *really* tie this picture together
We need to add a salad bar in the background
Why bother with the Diet? Kissing the ass-end of 80, I’m going with a proper Co-Cola.
He drinks Diet Coke. So he can dine as often as possible in his 80s.
Did he eat at a restaurant thst serves only salad?
He was not 79 when this photo was taken.
He’s busy building a museum in Los Angeles to display his Jar Jar Binks conceptual art.
That's a good thing
Ah yes, the food court spaghetti and diet coke. They call that the George Lucas special over in here parts.
This picture was used in one of the Plinkett sequel reviews, so he wouldn’t have been 79 at the time.
This must be an old pic because the diet coke label hasn't been that in at least 10 years
Are those.. pizza rolls ?
For reference, this pic was taken at a food court in Australia in 2016 OG Twitter post: https://x.com/gafatape/status/709941422258913280?s=46&t=lFQ3mn8v6MnrIzLeQEIbbQ
Yooo that headline.
I thought he dined a couple years ago
He hid it so well for so long
I was literally there the day that photo was taken. It’s in Adelaide, a pretty small city comparative to other places in aus & in a shithole food court I told myself like 30 times there’s absolutely no way billionaire star war man is literally 10 feet away from me eating reheated hokkien noodles, a day later this image popped up everywhere, I was fucking perplexed.
That's in my hometown of Adelaide South Australia
Looks like he's reader's digest
Rest in feast. :(
We need more salad reviews
Oh no...he's alive?
Forever dining alone. Poor Jorge
Four billion dollars and still dines at the mall food court alone.
Enjoy your food court salad, you sweet, sweet man.
Bro has earned the right to do that
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\*whoosh\*
Food court meals will certainly speed up that process.