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Vigilante posted this to livejournal the other day (see below).

Does anyone here think that this is ever actually gonna happen? I
mean, unless Guybrush travels space and time to a place long go and
far far away (or something along those lines), it's not really fitting
to put in lightsabers....


start quote:

"From this month's Retro Gamer:"

"While it's only at the rumour stage at the moment, it's already
sounding highly likely that a fifth instalment of Lucasarts' popular
pirate franchise could soon be on the way.

While news of a fifth game has been circulating for a while,
speculation reached fever point when the popular Monkey Island
fansite, World of Monkey Island received an email from Steve Purcell
which contained some gorgeous concept art for a project that was "in
no way connected to any existing or cancelled piratey project."

While Jim Ward, president of LEC is strongly against reworking old
franchises - with the exception of Star Wars, Thrillville and Indiana
Jones - and adventure games, there can be no denying the popularity of
the Pirates of the Carribean films that have dominated cinemas. Then
there's the fact that the recent Sam & Max episodes have proven
extremely popular and are further proof that the genre can survive if
it's handled properly.

World of Monkey Island recently mentioned that "a reliable source" had
informed them that the pictures that were submitted by Purcell were
concept art from a cancelled Monkey Island film that was first pitched
in 2000, but that doesn't really explain why it's taken seven years
for the pictures to finally surface.

There's still a huge fanbase for Monkey Island, and it could be
somewhat premature if Lucasarts was to completely write the series off
without exploring potential new directions for the well-loved
franchise - providing, of course, that it doesn't try and turn it into
another Pirates of the Carribean sword slasher. We can just about
stomach another 3D iteration, but we'll walk the plank and jump into
shark-infested seas before we play a Monkey island game that isn't a
proper adventure."


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 "This is the captain. We have a little problem
   with our entry sequence, so we may experience
   some slight... turbulence and then explode."
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