A Young George Lucas to Show up in an Upcoming Episode of 'Legends of Tomorrow'
With the midseason finale revealing that Rip Hunter was working as a filmmaker in 1967, the winter premiere of Legends of Tomorrow is set to explore Hollywood history. The episode, titled Raiders of the Lost Art, will have the heroes take on an aberration that has disastrous effect for Ray and Nate.
George Lucas will show up, though it won't be any CG magic ie. Tarkin, but instead he will be portrayed by Matt Angel of Sweet/Vicious fame. Executive producer Marc Guggenheim said of the plot that "because of circumstances, the time aberration in episode 209 is George Lucas quits film school. As a result, he never makes Star Wars or Raiders of the Lost Ark. As a result, Ray, who became an engineer because of Star Wars, and Nate, who became a historian because of Raiders, slowly start to lose their brilliance, because those things that inspired them to become who they are didn’t exist.
"We were watching a cut of it, and I said to Greg [Berlanti] that 209 is either going to be the episode where we’ll say that the show found a new gear in terms of how zany it can be, or it’s the episode that’s going to get us all fired. It really is. You’re laughing out loud, I think with it, but it’s like, ‘Are we really doing this?’ It’s the ’70s bar fight on steroids. The whole episode is that level of crazy."
And yes, it does sound ridiculous. We'll wait on fan response to see how this thing goes down.
Source: Slashfilm
