Disney Buys Star Wars!

brydeemer

Yep, Disney bought LucasFilm, straight up.

Episode 7 to be released in 2015.

This is very exciting news.

Bry

Torchsong

*PPTPTTTT!!!!* <- Closest approximation I could come to a spit-take

Greg

Ah, you beat me to it Bry. Britches have been crapped in over this one.

mrfusion

Wait, what?!?

Mr_Cosmic

Ok, I thought the Episode 7 line was sarcasm from Bryan...nope.

My head is spinning!!! 8-}

JaxUr

Should George Lucas be kept in the director's chair? I hope not! So, let he speculating begin:

If you were Disney who would you want to helm the next film:

Chris Nolan
Kevin Smith
Bryan Singer
Peter Jackson
Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarrentino
Sam Mendes
Woody Allen

Maybe they will go the 007 route and go for someone with a lower profile.

Mr_Cosmic

Press Release

Star Wars Episode 7 is targeted for release in 2015, with more feature films expected to continue the Star Wars saga and grow the franchise well into the future.

SigurdJarlson

Any plot ideas? Thrawn? Yuzhan Vong? Those Star Wars comic that happen a lot later on?

They really can't get the whole cast of 4-6 and can they? So must likely we are going to be looking at new actors replacing the original cast.... I'm not sure I'm in favor of this idea too much, whoever plays Luke or Han will always be subpar to Hamil and Ford.

Mr_Cosmic

SigurdJarlson said:

Any plot ideas? Thrawn? Yuzhan Vong? Those Star Wars comic that happen a lot later on?

They really can't get the whole cast of 4-6 and can they? So must likely we are going to be looking at new actors replacing the original cast.... I'm not sure I'm in favor of this idea too much, whoever plays Luke or Han will always be subpar to Hamil and Ford.

Well, in my perfect world Episode VII would be Heir to the Empire. I doubt they'll do the books but I'd still like to see some expanded universe characters(like Thrawn) included.

John_Steed

get PIXAR involved asap!

tommysheroes

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Will_TWOTH

JaxUr said:

Should George Lucas be kept in the director's chair? I hope not! So, let he speculating begin:

If you were Disney who would you want to helm the next film:

Chris Nolan
Kevin Smith
Bryan Singer
Peter Jackson
Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarrentino
Sam Mendes
Woody Allen

Maybe they will go the 007 route and go for someone with a lower profile.

Tarantino and Smith are clearly the obvious choices.

As much as I'm sure I'm gonna bitch and moan about this in the coming year(s), I can't deny at some point I'm going to get very excited about this, because IT'S STAR WARS IS WHY!
But for now I say this much:
Face, I assume you are acquainted with palm.

Will_TWOTH

OOoo, also, is there not a T.V series in the works? Sorry for the double post.
Do we have a thread about this?

SigurdJarlson

Mr_Cosmic said:

SigurdJarlson said:

Any plot ideas? Thrawn? Yuzhan Vong? Those Star Wars comic that happen a lot later on?

They really can't get the whole cast of 4-6 and can they? So must likely we are going to be looking at new actors replacing the original cast.... I'm not sure I'm in favor of this idea too much, whoever plays Luke or Han will always be subpar to Hamil and Ford.

Well, in my perfect world Episode VII would be Heir to the Empire. I doubt they'll do the books but I'd still like to see some expanded universe characters(like Thrawn) included.

In my opinion they need to stick to the Expanded Universe timeline, anything that goes against that would be pretty bad, due to all of the continuity they have amassed over the years.

Greg

Is it not clear to any of you who the cast will be?

http://www.timelineuniverse.net/Oz/MuppetsStarWars.jpg

Mr_Cosmic

Does 4 billion seem a little low to anyone else?

John_Steed

oh man - I just had a vision of a STAR WARS amusement park. Visit all the places. Get on board all the vechicles. Meet the myriads of species..... 8-}

Greg

Mr_Cosmic said:

Does 4 billion seem a little low to anyone else?

Yes, but in this economy maybe not.

Will_TWOTH

I'd like to see Sam Mendes try it.

mrfusion

John_Steed said:

get PIXAR involved asap!

Bite your tongue. We can do our own animating and rendering!

WetRats

Does this include ILM, Skywalker Sound, THX, etc?

John_Steed

@mrfusion : B-)

BlackUmbrella

Wonder what this will mean for Dark Horse's comics?

Pretty stoked about the idea of a Star Wars 7 without Lucas at the helm. In fact, I almost wish they'd reboot the series on film.

WetRats

mrfusion said:

John_Steed said:

get PIXAR involved asap!

Bite your tongue. We can do our own animating and rendering!

PIXAR involved in storycrafting, however...

EtriganBlood

I would assume that dark horse keeps the rights for now, but as soon as they get a chance, I would assume Marvel would buy them

ctowner1

BlackUmbrella said:

Wonder what this will mean for Dark Horse's comics?

Pretty stoked about the idea of a Star Wars 7 without Lucas at the helm. In fact, I almost wish they'd reboot the series on film.

Or perhaps they should just redo Eps 1-3 before moving on to 7! lol

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Mr_Cosmic

WetRats said:

Does this include ILM, Skywalker Sound, THX, etc?

Yeah, that sort of goes along with my question about the sale price. Does it include merchandising rights? If it includes all of the above then I think 4 billion is too low.

WetRats

If ILM is part of the deal, then 4 billion is very cheap.

David_D

And then they came for Star Wars ;)

(I wonder if they will go ahead and pick up Dukes of Hazzard, Ghostbusters, and The Goonies, so that the treasure pile of my childhood will be complete).

I would imagine it is a smart buy, given how hard Disney has been working on surrounding the childhoods of boys they way they have girls.

I guess Jedi are the new pirates.

Toby

...let the net explode. This will be super. I am hoping for less CGI/pixar etc and more live actors, etc.

mrfusion

WetRats said:

If ILM is part of the deal, then 4 billion is very cheap.

It is parts of the deal, along with lucas animation, skywalker sound and lucas arts
(based on what I've read online)