The Force.net are running more bad news, as it appears that Disney has continued to hack away at the Star Wars property. This lastest news was announced a few hours ago by a tweet from Stacy Arnold-Strider, a former Product Development Manager at LucasFilm:
“Hatchet day at #Lucasfilm and #LucasLicensing. Bad news: I got laid off. Good news: I got laid off! Look out, world, here I come!”
No comments have yet been made by LucasFilm. This continues the stream of bad news that has plagued everything Star Wars since the Disney buyout in late 2012. The LucasArts shutdown affected “some 150 workers,” according to Kotaku News, who lost their jobs. And with the closure of LucasArts, also came the death of the highly awaited projects, Battlefront III and Star Wars 1313. The Business Insider got the following quote from Jeff Gomez, CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment about the layoffs at LucasArts.
“Hatchet day at #Lucasfilm and #LucasLicensing. Bad news: I got laid off. Good news: I got laid off! Look out, world, here I come!”
No comments have yet been made by LucasFilm. This continues the stream of bad news that has plagued everything Star Wars since the Disney buyout in late 2012. The LucasArts shutdown affected “some 150 workers,” according to Kotaku News, who lost their jobs. And with the closure of LucasArts, also came the death of the highly awaited projects, Battlefront III and Star Wars 1313. The Business Insider got the following quote from Jeff Gomez, CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment about the layoffs at LucasArts.
- 4/17/2013
- by Darragh O'Connor
- Obsessed with Film
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