{"id":12362,"date":"2018-06-14T22:24:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T02:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=12362"},"modified":"2018-06-14T22:24:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T02:24:47","slug":"an-alternate-history-of-movies-since-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/an-alternate-history-of-movies-since-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"An alternate history of movies since 1977"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if George Lucas had never made <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> in 1977? That&#8217;s the intriguing premise of this article by Kevin Lincoln on <strong>Polygon<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2018\/6\/7\/17432928\/star-wars-george-lucas-history\">What if Star Wars never happened?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few tidbits: George Lucas would have filmed <strong>Apocalypse Now<\/strong>, Harrison Ford wouldn&#8217;t have become an actor, Jack Nicholson would have starred in <strong>Blade Runner<\/strong>, and Tim Burton would have directed <strong>Jurassic Park. <\/strong>It&#8217;s not only movies that are affected, but politics as well &#8212; with Fox disappearing from the picture, there&#8217;s no Fox News, and no President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an extremely clever thought experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if George Lucas had never made Star Wars in 1977? That&#8217;s the intriguing premise of this article by Kevin Lincoln on Polygon: What if Star Wars never happened? A few tidbits: George Lucas would have filmed Apocalypse Now, Harrison Ford wouldn&#8217;t have become an actor, Jack Nicholson would have starred in Blade Runner, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-12362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12363,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12362\/revisions\/12363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}