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Disney Buys Luscasfilm For $4.05B (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/10/30/disney-buying-tar-wars-maker-lucasfilm-for-405b/)
A decade since George Lucas said "Star Wars" was finished on the big screen, a new trilogy under new ownership is destined for theaters after The Walt Disney Co. announced Tuesday that it was buying Lucasfilm Ltd. from him for $4.05 billion.
The seventh movie, with a working title of "Episode 7," is set for release in 2015. Episodes 8 and 9 will follow. The trilogy will continue the story of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia beyond "Return of the Jedi," the third film released and the sixth in the saga. After that, Disney plans a new "Star Wars" movie every two or three years. Lucas will serve as creative consultant in the new movies.
Where did this come from? I didn't even have a clue this was going down. Either my head was buried so far in the ground, or I just kept missing 'talk' about this. So, I guess with this now official, George Lucas can no longer **** and re-**** Star Wars over and over for a quick buck.
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Hmmmm, I was reading a little that Lucas may be a consultant.
I too had not heard anything until today.
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Read the fine print, Disney also acquired the Indiana Jones franchise, which means we will be seeing more, albeit with a different actor in the role. I'm okay with this if they can get back to basics and ground it in reality and not have Indy On Mars or something.
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They're more interested in Star Wars than Indy, especially since the sour taste of the last Indy is still stinging in our mouths.
Honestly, I'm not a big Star Wars fan, but honestly I would much rather they reboot the universe Star Wars-style (but without time travel) because the last forty years have made the SW universe so dense that you're going to run into a bunch of complications... besides, having NO clue what the new Star Wars could be (as opposed to easily knowing the prequel trilogy, everything was just shitty permutations of established stuff). Besides, it's kind of a broken, bent old horse and we need to start rooting for its' colt.
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I'm actually the opposite. I would rather get Indy over Star Wars for a lot of reasons, but namely because SW has run it's course of overexposure with a Captial O. Yes, Indy 4 left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths, but on the flip side, the last 3 Star Wars movies was a bigger crime. I grew up with the original Trilogy and it meant a lot too me, same with Indy. At the end of the day, I just think for me, I'd get more out of another Indy reboot than I would with Star Wars.
Now, addressing the Star Wars reboot, I would love it if they did something with Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy arc, which I thought was a great read. But knowing Disney, they will do everything in-house and start fresh from the ground up.
Once October ends and my run of horror movie winds down, I will be doing a Star Wars Marathon, which I have been putting off for the last few months.
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If National Treasure is any indication, I don't want to see Indy anytime soon.
And as for revamping Thawn, there's really SO much material in the AU that you could do, but honestly, that's still a step backwards.
My thing about movies is that I feel, especially in this day and age, that they're conversations, they are reacting to the state of the world and saying something about it, then the world reacts, then the movies react. This is why movies that were in the can for a long time tend not to work, cause it's a conversation everyone's already had (sometimes verbatim like Total Recall). John Carter is a great example, everyone had that conversation ages ago, so what was once fresh came out being trite and derivative even though it said it first. Adaptations can add to conversations because they're reacting to the source material, but Disney's big epics, the ones where "story doesn't matter" aren't interested in talking, and thusly I'm not interested in listening. Why should we be?
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New 'Star Wars' Film in 2015 as Disney Buys Lucasfilm in $4.05B Deal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f48Tk44NVdM
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IGN News : Star Wars Episode VII Will Be an "Original Story"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFl_plf3O34
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I posted on Campbell's facebook page that I really have no problem with the purchase...I've always been a fan of Disney and lets face it...Star Wars is less than sacred these days.
If there's a hope for new films that might be pretty kick ass...I'd let Disney give it a go....couldn't really be worse
I wonder if they'd use the same art teams....or main designers that is./
some of those guys are super bad ass
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Well Disney also get's Industrial Light and Magic as part of the deal. I don't see them firing everyone and then restocking it with their own people. That would be the worst business plan ever.
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well the classic thing is "we don't want to change anything"
trust me the bottom line will be having cheap salaries and if those guys are over paid...I give their life span at the company 3 years tops.
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That would be a pretty ballsy move to can the industry standard in what ILM does.
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dude you live in a fantasy world larger than both Lucas and Disney has created.
these are big business and the bean counters and higher ups...don't know and don't care.
is the movie done.
great put it out...and where's our bonuses.
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Lucas, Disney, Hobbit land...................
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and I am not pointing fingers at Disney...don't mistake that.
I am talking in general terms of how those HUGE companies work.
there's always someone who can do the job well enough, cheaper, and probably faster....in 3 or 4 years they won't be as worried about changing things up.
trust me/
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Michael Eisner just ask if he could come back to work for Disney....playing C3-PO in Star Wars 7.
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"oh my artoooo"
:)
I hear crazy train!
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Sam Jackson: George Lucas Got SCREWED!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXaJV3j1QnE
Gotta love Sam Jackson.
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Star Wars Now Has A Bright Future
(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Misc/Star%20Wars/MickeySunsStarWars.jpg)
Hahaha. This is awesome.
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Pretty creative :)
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Is this true?
Disney's $4 Billion Pay Out, Doesn't Include Original Star Wars
Disney will own and release future films in the Star Wars series (as for potential Indiana Jones films, Paramount retains some distribution rights and future movies will only be made if both Paramount and Disney agree on terms). Lucas apparently has sketched out plans for three more Star Wars films -- he always envisioned making nine -- with Episode Seven set for release in 2015. But Fox owns distribution rights to the original Star Wars, No. 4 in the series, in perpetuity in all media worldwide. And as for the five subsequent movies, Fox has theatrical, nontheatrical and home video rights worldwide through May 2020.
While the rights on those five films eventually will revert to Disney, that "in perpetuity" pact for the first film appears to be an obstacle to Disney releasing a complete set -- unless a deal can be made.
According to a longtime Lucas associate, the filmmaker always wanted to keep his films together. “Now it seems like he can't have a total package of the story because one of the movies is with Fox, unless they can make some kind of deal [with Disney] to release nine of them,” this person says.
Disney and Fox did not respond to a request for comment. But a Fox insider tells THR that as for Disney's blockbuster deal to purchase Lucas' company, "we certainly would have liked a crack at it but i get the play."
Fox plans to proceed with plans to re-release the supposedly much-improved 3D versions of Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith in fall 2013. The re-release of Episode I -- The Phantom Menaceturned in only a fair performance earlier this year, grossing a total of $102.8 million worldwide. Fox receives only a relatively low - six percent - distribution fee to release those films.
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Interesting.
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It probably explains why the price is so low (compared to Pixar). But that's fine, I mean, pretty much everyone who wants the old movies on DVD or Blu-Ray probably has them, or will get them used, so it's not like they could squeeze much more money out of that stone. The value is coming from the new movies: the merchandising, the DVD/Blu-Rays, the online downloads, the TV and streaming rights, and the tie-ins. It's all new content no one has seen before and the demand and interest in that is pretty palpable.
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Someone Help, George Lucas Is Talking About Touching The Star Wars VII Script
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBuOHM51YdI
NO TOUCHIE GEORGIE!!!! Sorry, I’m ok, I swear. We previously showed you a video of George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy discussing Disney’s acquisition of LucasFilm. Guess what? There’s a part two! In this new clip, they say a few things we already know – they’re making new films, etc. – but if anyone thought the sale meant Lucas wouldn’t be involved in the next trilogy (a death sentence to most fans), they’d be wrong. Lucas is still Creative Director and will have his hands aaaaaallllll over that script. Also, Kennedy claims there’s no source material to go to for the new films which means you can ask for your money back on all those supposedly in-continuity novels, comics, etc. you’ve bought over the years.
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Ugh!
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Yea, I think I heard a universal sigh.
Doesn't George know about the Internet?
Peeps are saying stuff and he should listen.
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George has gone on record saying that any journalist that takes into account the views of those on the internet are not real journalist. That pretty much sums up what he thinks of people like you and me and the rest of the planet. He's from a different generation when all they had was 2 tin cans and a string in between them. If you ask George what the 'Internet' is, his response would be "isn't that when you step inside a net"?
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well, my take on rumors have about zero register on my radar... but thought I'd post this anyway... sounds ridiculous actually...
Rumour: Disney planning 2-3 Star Wars films every year?
As if the news that there is to be a new Star Wars trilogy wasn’t seismic enough, rumours are now circling that Disney plans to follow-up Episode VII with two or three Star Wars films every year!
An upcoming interview with Entertainment Weekly apparently has Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy confirming that the studio plans to turn out several movies per year, in order to explore the Star Wars universe to the full.
The thinking is that Disney would like to establish a wider-reaching universe, a la The Avengers, in which a variety of supporting characters are introduced individually, before being brought together further down the track.
Meanwhile, the search for a director for Episode VII is reportedly down two a couple of candidates, with Steven Spielberg, J.J. Abrams and Zack Snyder’s names still doing the rounds.
All should become clearer over the next couple of weeks, but whatever happens, we’re going to be talking about Star Wars for a good while to come
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I heard that back a few days ago. It won't happen. First off, it would be beyond overkill. Second that over-saturation of that many Star Wars films per year would kill off the franchise faster than if George Lucas still had creative control of it. As for the directors, Spielberg and Abrams withdrew their names from the list a couple of weeks back.