Disney Buys Lucasfilm for $4B, Episode 7 in 2015

[crazybirdman]

This is pretty mindblowing. It doesn't fit in well with Lucas giving up control though. However it may lead to some better movies than the last three. Even better new non clone lego sets!

He has said he wanted to get out of the big budget movie business.

Star Wars out of Lucas' hands? I say BRING IT ON.

This times one thousand. Can you imagine the possibilities if someone with imagination and creativity Started making movies set in the Star Wars universe?

[Mister Ed]

I'm trying to picture the reaction if, after buying Lucasfilm and announcing Star Wars Episode 7, Disney hires Lucas to direct it.

[Joedward]

Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


Or, alternately,


NoooOoooooOOOOOOOooOoOooOoooo

I'm sure only time will tell. I am both apprehensive and intrigued. Can't wait until all the little bits of info start popping up over the next couple of years.

[DarthNick]

Though it will be nice seeing a lot of the EU stuff basically negated.

Sorry, what exactly do you mean by this? That in the making of the new movies, they're going to overlap all the EU stuff? And if so, why is that a nice thing?

I'm trying to picture the reaction if, after buying Lucasfilm and announcing Star Wars Episode 7, Disney hires Lucas to direct it.

He's already been named to be a 'creative consultant' on the film. But who knows what that'll mean for the films.

[Walter Boy]

The question going through my mind is: Will fans eventually love Lucas for this, or hate him even more?

I can't help but be scared because of this question. Beautiful things could come from this... But so could terrible things.


Terrible, terrible things...

[Draykov]

Any sense of hope this might bring is tempered by memories of 1999.

[onions]

Any sense of hope this might bring is tempered by memories of 1999.

elaborate? cause this ain't nothing like 1999.

[Walter Boy]

He's already been named to be a 'creative consultant' on the film. But who knows what that'll mean for the films.

I just hope Dave Filoni isn't involved...

[Draykov]

elaborate? cause this ain't nothing like 1999.

Sort of a "fool me once" situation. I got excited for the PT and was pretty well gutted by the time Episode III came out. I'd rather not get my hopes up in vain again...I'm just not strong enough.

I realize though for nerds everywhere this is something of a double-rainbow scenario at this point.

[Mister Ed]

Though it will be nice seeing a lot of the EU stuff basically negated.

Sorry, what exactly do you mean by this? That in the making of the new movies, they're going to overlap all the EU stuff? And if so, why is that a nice thing?

While I don't take any particular joy in having EU stuff overwritten when I know there are a lot of people who enjoy it (I enjoy SOME of it), I don't think it ultimately will be that big a deal. (Never was for Star Trek.)

I will admit to a part of me that WILL take a bit of pleasure from the reactions of certain very STRIDENT EU fans that I've known if that happens, though. I'm not proud of that, especially, though it has less to do with my feelings about the EU than it does my feeling about specific people that obsess over it and judge you for not holding it in the same regard.

[Pellaeon]

my head asplode

So… unedited movies in 1080p, please?

[Walter Boy]

Lucas and Kennedy discuss the future of LucasFilm.

[Chief]

I would be in line for a Thrawn movie trilogy SO FAST

[dWhisper]

Though it will be nice seeing a lot of the EU stuff basically negated.

Sorry, what exactly do you mean by this? That in the making of the new movies, they're going to overlap all the EU stuff? And if so, why is that a nice thing?

While I don't take any particular joy in having EU stuff overwritten when I know there are a lot of people who enjoy it (I enjoy SOME of it), I don't think it ultimately will be that big a deal. (Never was for Star Trek.)

I will admit to a part of me that WILL take a bit of pleasure from the reactions of certain very STRIDENT EU fans that I've known if that happens, though. I'm not proud of that, especially, though it has less to do with my feelings about the EU than it does my feeling about specific people that obsess over it and judge you for not holding it in the same regard.

Lucas has always treated the EU with disregard, and basically negated ro removed a lot of it. He'll use elements of it, stuff like Coruscant or some of the aliens in the background. The whole onion layers of canon thing.

I do enjoy some of the EU, I really do, but for the most part, it's muddled and often garbage. Sub-par writers, plots that don't make sense, and the continual need to reinvent basic things about the story.

[HothTrooper]

I'm amazed Disney and Lucasfilm managed to keep this a surprise until the official announcement. That said, I'm interested to see how this sequel trilogy will play out. How interested will depend on the time period (I can't see recasting the original trilogy characters and doing a direct sequel shortly after Return of the Jedi going well.) and creative talent. I also sincerely hope the Hollywood Reboot Disease doesn't infect Star Wars. The Star Wars universe is plenty big enough to tell new stories for years to come without rebooting the franchise every few years like Batman or Spider-man.

[deco_droid]

Okay, somebody help me out on this -- Is Carrie Fisher still thin or is she back to being overweight these days???

[DarthNick]

Lucas has always treated the EU with disregard, and basically negated ro removed a lot of it. He'll use elements of it, stuff like Coruscant or some of the aliens in the background. The whole onion layers of canon thing.

I do enjoy some of the EU, I really do, but for the most part, it's muddled and often garbage. Sub-par writers, plots that don't make sense, and the continual need to reinvent basic things about the story.

I can definitely see what you mean. Though it would just seem silly to me to overlap EU stuff when the Star Wars timeline is expansive enough that I doubt it'd be necessary.

And apparently, the Thrawn trilogy is now my next read (once I finish the New Jedi Order). Gotta see what all the talk is about.

[Joedward]

Okay, somebody help me out on this -- Is Carrie Fisher still thin or is she back to being overweight these days???

Um..... Why?

[Solo]

Okay, somebody help me out on this -- Is Carrie Fisher still thin or is she back to being overweight these days???

Recent article on that topic for reference.

[Inzane]

The Thrawn Trilogy is easily the best of the 3rd party (EU) novels, IMO.

However, as much as I'd love to see those books made into film, I feel sadly it's ship has sailed. As has already been said in this thread, the principal cast is now too old. And who wants to see our beloved characters re-cast with new actors? (I sure as hell don't).

I wish in the mid-90s that is where Lucas could've focused his return to SW Film. Timothy Zahn laid out a fantastic template of a story of how to place the universe and its characters after the original trilogy. Instead we got the start of Lucas's bastardization of the classics, starting with SW SE in '97.

And yes, 1999 was a year to remember.