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Disney Buys Lucasfilms
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 30, 2012, 9:31 pm
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[center]Disney Buys Luscasfilm For $4.05B
HTML http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/10/30/disney-buying-tar-wars-maker-lucasfilm-for-405b/
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[quote]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.
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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 rape and re-rape Star Wars
over and over for a quick buck.
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Re: Disney Buys Lucasfilms
By: Mac Date: October 30, 2012, 10:02 pm
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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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Re: Disney Buys Lucasfilms
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 30, 2012, 10:20 pm
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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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Re: Disney Buys Lucasfilms
By: Neumatic Date: October 30, 2012, 10:39 pm
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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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Re: Disney Buys Lucasfilms
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 30, 2012, 10:53 pm
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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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Re: Disney Buys Lucasfilms
By: Neumatic Date: October 30, 2012, 11:15 pm
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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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Re: Disney Buys Lucasfilms
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 31, 2012, 1:13 pm
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[center]New 'Star Wars' Film in 2015 as Disney Buys Lucasfilm in
$4.05B Deal
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f48Tk44NVdM
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Re: Disney Buys Lucasfilms
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 31, 2012, 10:50 pm
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[center]IGN News : Star Wars Episode VII Will Be an "Original
Story"
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFl_plf3O34
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Re: Disney Buys Lucasfilms
By: boyinblack80 Date: November 1, 2012, 9:38 pm
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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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Re: Disney Buys Lucasfilms
By: Chiprocks1 Date: November 1, 2012, 9:41 pm
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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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