Posted on 10/30/2012 1:28:19 PM PDT by Perdogg
The Walt Disney Company announced today it has agreed to acquire Lucasfilm and is planning Star Wars Episode 7 for 2015! This is following such big purchases as Pixar and Marvel Entertainment. Here is the full press release:
(Excerpt) Read more at comingsoon.net ...
I expect Disney to do for Star Wars exactly what it did for John Carter, make it a bloated boring mess.
Not that Lucas really needed any help with that.
I think that was the original intention, to have VII, VIII, and IX be “the future” relative to III; and IV, V, and VI be “the past” relative to I.
Beverly Spacebillies
Yes, it confused things a bit but Lucas wanted it to be a Saturday Morning serial. The one place he lost against the studio was starting the crawl with “Episode IV - A New Hope.”
The studio thought it would be confusing (and they might have been right).
So what is the betting? Prequel or sequel? According to Lucas’ standards, it would be the sequel — that is the next in the series.
>>All they get are the characters. The right to make Star Wars VII? After the last three were so awful? Xers won’t get fooled again, and Gen Y doesn’t care. There’s no audience for VII.<<
I suspect the audience for Ep VII is much vaster than you think. It will probably do close to $1 Bln (as did Phantom Menace, arguably the worst of all 6).
Disney, being Disney, probably got the merchandising rights — I can;t imagine a scenario where that doesn’t happen.
At 4B, Disney will recoup their money in about 5 years — faster if they make a SW VIII.
Hehe :D
Lucas killed Star Wars until it died from it!
Well, Mooch and the mini-mooches will be available to guest star as a wookie and her two Ewok kids.
In the books, after the last movie (SWVI), Luke was the last Jedi standing and Leia and Han Solo get married. Their kids turn out to be Jedi kids and, as the last Jedi, Luke sets out to teach them the ways of the force and to reform the Jedi order.
Given the ages of the original actors, continuing the saga from how it ended in Episode 6 might work to use them to introduce the new characters. Lots of possibilities.
The next Star Wars will be produced within the Minecraft game environment.
Star Wars: Cubed
The Movie that made the seventy's what they are today!
The Movie that made the seventy's what they are today!
heh, you know I think I would prefer that to Star Wars 3D.
Star Wars: The Next Generation
Queen Leia teaches her progeny about how the empire is split between her benevolent kingdom and her Jedi enforcers, the dark side and the evil conservative federation where humans are left to fend for themselves in free market capitalism.
“We will bury them” the Queen says as she justifies her decision to team up with the Dark Side against the conservatives!!
>> Lots of possibilities.<<
Well, they could have Leia and Han get married and the baby be Black. Leia would shout “Lando gosshen!!”
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I’m first in line. I sure “hope” it’s playing at this theater;-)
They get ILM, Skywalker Sound, LucasArts (the video games), and yes the new Ranch (Lucas already got rid of the old ranch, turned it into project housing). And they also get the Indiana Jones franchise. Really even if it was just the characters it’s a bargain price, the characters means the merchandising, and Star Wars merch is a license to print money.
To save money on special effects I hEAR it will star Obama since he fits the part and will be umemployed very shortly.
That's the way Lucas originally planned it. Three, three episode series.
Ep 4, 5 and 6 were "A New Hope".
Ep 1, 2 and 3 were the early days of the Empire.
Ep 7, 8 and 9 were supposed to be the further adventures of Luke and his friends.
I have to assume that Disney has purchased all the rights from Lucas to do this. Personally, I have been waiting for this type of news for 20 years.
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