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Disney acquires Lucasfilm, Episode 7 has been greenlit

MrWMrW
edited 2012-10-30 16:48:41 in Media

Not too sure about this.

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  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    Hey guys, I have stuff to say about this wanna hear it wanna hear it wanna hear it :D

  • DYREDYRE
    edited 2012-10-30 16:36:51

    Actual press release, since primary sources are better than secondary/tertiary ones.


    Anyway, I have no strong opinions on this.

  • LaiLai
    edited 2012-10-30 16:38:06

    Well, I have no strong feelings on this, one way or another.


    Alex, no Alexing.

  • ninjaclownninjaclown

    Looking forward to it.

  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!

    I'm not sure what to think of this. I'm leaning towards "cautious".

  • dmboogiedmboogie
    probably human

    Uh. Woah. Never saw that one coming, but I'm cautiously optimistic. 

  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2012-10-30 17:02:00
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.

    The one thing that gives me any kind of hope for this is that Lucas doesn't look like he's going to be super involved?


    I mean, I'll go see it no matter what, but I'm going to be very cautiously optimistic until we get more details.

  • BeeBee

    wat are u doing


    disney


    stahp

  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled

    lol

  • KrakenKraken
    George doesn't look too happy.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Cautiously optimistic about this.



    You know, there was a time when I'd be sad that Lucas wasn't going to work on Star Wars anymore.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    This is unlikely to be good news, but I can hardly see it being bad news, either. You all know my opinion on how the Star Wars franchise has gone, so trading one unhinged (if well-meaning) mastermind for another just seems like same old to me. One of the prime issues here is that not a whole lot of people understand Star Wars, and George Lucas has long ceased to be part of that group -- the guys that know what they're doing are scattered about in Hollywood doing other jobs, because they're the ones that got credits but not general remembrance for working on those films. 


    But I think a good start would be to stop thinking of Star Wars as quasi-medieval fantasy and to view it as the ludicrous Cowboy-Western-meets-Samurai-Cinema-meets-Aerial-Dogfights mashup that made it so endearing in the first place. The more EU stuff I'm exposed to, the more it reads like Dragonlance with lightsabers and space ships. That is not a compliment. 

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    We're forgetting the most important part: Leia is now a Disney princess.
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

  • BastionBastion
    smote
    Disney also owns Marvel, and Avengers 2 is also supposed to come out in 2015 and feature an intergalactic plot.



    It's the same film. It was always the same film. Joss Whedon convinced them to buy Lucasarts so he could have Captain America beat up stormtroopers.
  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled

    Seems reasonable.

  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!

    ^^Isn't it Lucasfilm that's being bought? Unless Lucasarts is also sucked in with that deal.

  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled

    ^^Isn't it Lucasfilm that's being bought? Unless Lucasarts is also sucked in with that deal.
    Wikipedia says it is.

  • BastionBastion
    smote

    Seems reasonable.



    Search your feelings, you know this to be the unspoken truth of humanity.

  • EelektrossEelektross
    Definitely not gay.

    >Star Wars references


    The unoriginality is strong with this one.

  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.

    It's actually a mixed reference.

  • EelektrossEelektross
    Definitely not gay.

    >realizes that


    ...


    HAVEEEEEN


    HAVEEEEEEEEEEN


    -camera slowly panning out of Earth-


    HAVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN

  • LegionnaireLegionnaire

    I'm less worried about the film itself and more about the impact of the EU. Sure, it's got a lot of bad parts, but there's a lot of good in the EU as well, and a lot of authors have put a lot of effort into making it as consistent, thoughtful and outright good as possible (not that every author has been willing to play ball - Karen Traviss can, frankly, go fuck herself). I think it'd be a real shame if all of their work was thrown out of the window and invalidated.


    The best case scenario I can think of is that they bring on Tim Zahn and do a faithful, well-written of the Thrawn Trilogy.

  • BeeBee
    edited 2012-10-30 23:53:31

    Knowing Disney it'll probably be a merchandising campaign to ram their new pop-rock band down your throat for the next four years via shitty live-action sitcoms.  Except instead of teenage girls, they're Bith with space clarinets.

  • fourteenwingsfourteenwings
    There is love everywhere, I already know

    Watch Zendaya and Bella Thorne as they star in a feature film about fashion, friendship and the force!


  • LegionnaireLegionnaire

    Knowing Disney it'll probably be a merchandising campaign to ram their new pop-rock band down your throat for the next four years via shitty live-action sitcoms.  Except instead of teenage girls, they're Bith with space clarinets.



    Why don't we have an upvote button seriously

  • BeeBee

    On a related note, the style of music the cantina band was playing is apparently referred to in-universe as Jizz.


    Yeeeaaaaahhhhh...

  • RocketDudeRocketDude
    Poot dispenser here

    The packaging of the 2007 Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes action figure 5-pack refers to the band's music as "jazz", which may indicate that "jizz" is being phased out of Star Wars canon. However, it's more likely that Hasbro did not want the term, synonymous with semen, on a toy package.



    NO SHIT SHERLOCK

  • SaturnSaturn
    edited 2012-10-31 00:54:45
    Ridi, Pagliaccio, sul tuo amore infranto!

    Yeah because Marvel became full of pop punk bands to market to little girls via shitty live-action shows. The only thing even SLIGHTLY similar to this I've seen is how the Avengers are going to guest star on an episode of Phineas and Ferb.


    I don't like when people say stuff like that.

  • fourteenwingsfourteenwings
    edited 2012-10-31 00:58:58
    There is love everywhere, I already know

    I'm pretty sure we're all just kidding around.

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