February 7, 2002

9:59 AM

LucasFilm vs. Enron. The people over at LucasFilm aren't very happy that Enron used Star Wars related names for the phony comapanies used to hide millions in debt. Chewco, JEDI, Kenobe Inc, Obi 1 Holdings LLC among the names used.
posted by Lanternjmk (11 comments total)

They can always join the (soon to be, I'm sure) cast of thousands that are suing Enron.
posted by tommasz at 10:50 AM on February 7, 2002

I heard Ken Lay was going to have a cameo in Episode II.
posted by euphorb at 10:51 AM on February 7, 2002

They should have had a bad feeling about that...
posted by mimi at 11:01 AM on February 7, 2002

Ken Lay is kinda like the compactor-snake-thing that slithered out some unseen exit as soon as the walls started closing in!
posted by plaino at 11:08 AM on February 7, 2002

I heard Ken Lay was going to have a cameo in Episode II.

That's funny, I heard N'Sync were going to take over the Enron investigation.
posted by UnReality at 11:10 AM on February 7, 2002

Well somebody has to say it and it might as well be me. The force just wasn't with Enron.
posted by ZachsMind at 12:35 PM on February 7, 2002

I can just imagine Ken Lay in front of Congress: "These are not the CEOs you're looking for..."
posted by UnReality at 1:11 PM on February 7, 2002

Not Ken, but Jeff Skilling, AKA Darth Vader by his associates, apparently is so arrogant that he believes he can cow the entire universe with his supperior intellect and mastery of the 'force'.
posted by HTuttle at 1:29 PM on February 7, 2002

This is proof they were definitely hiding something if Lucas' omniscient copyright lawyers weren't able to find this earlier.
posted by dglynn at 2:12 PM on February 7, 2002

Maybe they should've been taking their names from Spaceballs instead.
posted by PeteyStock at 2:25 PM on February 7, 2002

Hard to see, the Dark Side is...
posted by spilon at 8:42 PM on February 7, 2002