ALIENS WALK AMONG US!

Here's an entry I made for Topless Robot's TR Contest: Wishful Headlines for last Friday, Feb. 12th.

I didn't win.

Partly because all he wanted was a headline, and I gave a full article. Others did that too, they didn't win either. Also because others were funnier.

I still like it though...

It has been revealed that George Lucas was replaced by an alien life form some time ago.

According to sources, not long after his divorce settlement in 1987, George Lucas was visited by an alien race that had received transmissions of his famous Star Wars trilogy and wanted to meet the creator. They offered Mr. Lucas the opportunity to travel with them and see far away galaxies. In return, these visitors would provide a double. A look-alike that would take his place here, and provide fantastic technological advances revolutionizing the movie making process in both picture and sound for the next two decades. Mr. Lucas agreed, and a member of the alien crew shifted form into a splitting image of the director.

Apparently it wasn’t until 2006 that Mr. Lucas returned. He was so taken with his adventures in space that the damage done to his beloved movie franchise was barely noticed.

Mr. Lucas did, however, manage to replace his duplicate in time to save his second famous movie property; Indiana Jones.

His time in space had a profound effect on him. As documented elsewhere, Mr. Lucas was responsible for working aliens into the script for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. “I tried to stop him,” friend and film collaborator Steven Spielberg said, “but he kept going on and on about it. I finally said ‘okay’ and threw up my hands.”

Others involved with the project took a more passive role. Harrison Ford, star of the film, was quoted as saying “It was just another day at the office for me.”

The extraterrestrials involved were described as being tall, skinny, with green skin, pointed ears and vertical wrinkles running between the lower lip and the chin. Their home is purported to be somewhere in the Andromeda Galaxy.

Get it? Skrulls took over Lucas' ranch. Just like they took over the Marvel Universe?

Remember?

Yeah. Okay...