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Disney buys Lucasfilm for $4 billion. Star Wars Ep. VII coming in 2015.

Bob Gundu said:
I really hope Disney doesn't slash the prices on all the Star Wars films because I have so much invested in the films and have barely made my money back in rentals. I'm a video store that rents out all 35 versions of star wars. Some are collector items and it's not fair for Disney to piss off the rental stores. What am I going to tell my wife, "sorry honey, we can't eat anymore" Please Disney do the the right thing!
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I'd vote it for post of the year ;-)
 
Wil Wong said:
And the muppets. Now we can finally have the ultimate Wizard of Oz musical with Kermit, Buzz, Iron Man, Mickey, and Vader. Wait, isn't Charlie Brown and the Peanuts part of Disney too??
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Man, I would pay at least $14.95 to see an authentic Muppet-only remake of Star Wars. Ha!

Reminds me of that one Muppet Show episode where Mark Hamill was the guest host...
 
NOOOO!!!!!!! Please tell me this is just an internet rumor.
 
not to bring anyone down but I wonder if this is a trend e.g. Digital Domain :(
 
I'd love to direct a star wars movie ! How cool would that be !!!

Actually, I'd love to see Chris Noland direct STAR WARS - HIS WAY!!!!

This could be way cool. !

And I'm sure we all agree that George Lucas was a very average director but the most amazing producer. All the best to him. Love the guy !
 
Bob Gundu said:
George Lucas sold out Lucasfilm along time ago if you ask me. Perhaps Disney can actually inject some real story telling again. Hopefully they'll leave Jar Jar and midichlorians out of it!
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Sorry but what is this Jar Jar you reffer too?
Surely this was a made up character ?
 
good one Bob ;)
 
All this talk about Jar Jar makes me queazy.... But then I start thinking about the possibility of Disney Slave Princess Leia and I suddenly have a valid reason to take my kids to DisneyLand again. :)
 
Bob Gundu said:
I really hope Disney doesn't slash the prices on all the Star Wars films because I have so much invested in the films and have barely made my money back in rentals. I'm a video store that rents out all 35 versions of star wars. Some are collector items and it's not fair for Disney to piss off the rental stores. What am I going to tell my wife, "sorry honey, we can't eat anymore" Please Disney do the the right thing!
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Perfect. :)
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
All this talk about Jar Jar makes me queazy.... But then I start thinking about the possibility of Disney Slave Princess Leia and I suddenly have a valid reason to take my kids to DisneyLand again. :)
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They have Slave Leia during Star Wars Weekends at Disney World.
 

Who can blame him? Hopefully he can follow up on his promise to finance his own smaller films now. It's nice to see him move past Star Wars.

But please Disney, hire ANYONE but Nolan (who's in WB's stable, anyway). Star Wars films are fun movies for children and not dark, brooding movies for man-children. Plus Nolan can't direct action or comedy. The prequels went too far in the childish direction then a little too far in the other with Sith (while maintaining the half-animated aesthetic that really clashed with all the "darkness"), but the tone of the original trilogy (and the better Indiana Jones films) is something that we haven't seen a lot of since Spielberg decided family films were below him. Avatar is the closest thing recently, but it's also very ponderous and digressive relative to Star Wars. There aren't a lot of major directors who work without a cynical, ironic, or nihilistic bent, and finding such a director for Star Wars 7-9 (also someone who's not just making self-aware fan fiction as Kevin Smith or even Edgar Wright might) will be tricky...

Spielberg would be the ideal director for this (the OT's narrative is the same father/son redemption story virtually all his movies told), but Indy 4 was his worst film and he's with Dreamworks and Paramount anyway. With better writers for the material Verbinski could handle the material and he works with Disney most frequently, but there's an efficiency and slickness to his films that eschews the warmth Spielberg and Lucas had. Brad Bird might be a great choice, but he can't do spectacle quite as elegantly as Verbinski. Ghost Protocol had an insipid story and dumb gags, but the action was great and he can do comedy, too. But he's got this weird Objectivist bent that's pretty disturbing. Cuaron would be a ballsy choice, but he seems to be in WB's stable at the moment. Favreau might or might not be a disaster (he doesn't have the action chops or sense of scale). Abrams already directed the best Star Wars movie of the past couple decades when he made Star Trek (so good!), and he also directed the most eerily effective Spielberg homage of all time bar none with Super 8 (even if it wasn't really that good otherwise), but he has an intellectual remove on the material that leaves it a bit shallow and emulative, plus he's already got Star Trek.

Hmm...who else...

Someone young and relatively unknown, Bird, or Verbinski. Maybe Kosinski if Oblivion does well. My wildly uninformed guess.
 
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I'm generally not for concentrating more power into already powerful media companies, but Star Wars has a lot of story left to tell in its universe.

A few things to note:

Fox still owns distribution rights to the first six films for home video. No unaltered originals on video any time soon.

Disney said Indiana Jones is a useless property to them because of shared rights issues with Paramount.
 
AndrewThomas said:
Disney said Indiana Jones is a useless property to them because of shared rights issues with Paramount.
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Disney has shared rights with other productions in the past (for example, with Pixar before they were purchased). It could be done -- it's just a question of the deal.

Indiana Jones​ can't happen without Harrison Ford, so that's a bigger question mark.
 
Marc Wielage said:
Disney has shared rights with other productions in the past (for example, with Pixar before they were purchased). It could be done -- it's just a question of the deal.

Indiana Jones​ can't happen without Harrison Ford, so that's a bigger question mark.
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They'll probably just eventually buy Fox and Paramount, in the future Disney will own the United States film industry.
 
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