Disney buys Star Wars

[Greven]

Walt Disney just bought Lucasfilm and intend to make 3 new Star Wars movies.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/10/30/disney-lucasfilm.html

I'm sceptical...

 

[Seneschal]

A lot of people have said "Would you rather see a star wars movie that's 75% as good as was normal for the franchise or see no star wars movie at all?"

The response to that would be, "The legacy would be ruined even further. Can anyone look at Vader the same way again?"

 

[Kassill]

I have a bad feeling about this....especially after seeing that pic of Lucas with the Disney characters dressed up in star wars costumes....




But there is a small glimmer of hope that they'll do something really cool, like maybe an Old Republic setting or something.

 

[Johnny-Crass]

I honestly hated the 'main' story line in star wars but was a huge darkhorse comics fanboy. So maybe some alt viens would be cool.

But knowing disney expect the original three to be remade casting disneys crew.

Come to think of it maybe disney just likes @&$&ing with Harrison Ford

 

[logan054]

Could be cool, always liked watching people running round with laser swords, throwing people all around the place. If its nothing like Ep 1 or 2 then it can't be bad.

hopefully it wont have luke in crying like a little girl, might be cool if its set around the solo brats

 

[Sanai]

http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

 

[Christophe von Carstein]

Im not sure how to greet the news really, I love the original trilogy and would hate to think they would be messed with. But considering disney are behind the likes of Pirates of the Caribbean it might not be as bad as it sounds

 

[Zhatan]

Big news. Not sure what to think. Could be good if they stay true to the star wars universe and manage to capture that feeling. What I don't want to see is pirates of the caribbean in space.
Not that I dislike pirates of the caribbean, I feel the first movie was good but then they started churning out more of them just to make money regardless of the quality of the film.

 

[Whisky Priest]

It would be quite cool if they were to make Timothy Zahn's Admiral Thrawn trilogy. Thay are by far and away the best of the books. Of course, the books have the clones as the bad guys in the clone wars, and Lucas stomped all over that..........

 

[Sanai]

Yeah, the Admiral Thrawn stuff is fantastic!

 

[Sanai]

So I went and told Luke Skywalker the news, and here is how he reacted;
[video=youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbeR6uYxU50[/video]

 

[El Syf]

Ah I heard that the new trilogy will follow on from jedi and therefore shit on all post jedi EU stuff. Still maybe if they read up on at least some of the background it could be okay. A new sith lord is a sure fire fail. How can you surpass Vader and Sidious? Unless Revan is magically still alive...

 

[logan054]

It would be quite cool if they were to make Timothy Zahn's Admiral Thrawn trilogy. Thay are by far and away the best of the books. Of course, the books have the clones as the bad guys in the clone wars, and Lucas stomped all over that..........

Pft, dark forces 1 and 2 into a film! then maybe the replace the jedi outcast with something good It would have to have Johnny Depp in it, disney seems to like him, maybe he could play kyle Katarn, just a jack sparrow type one?

Yeah, I should go work at disney

 

[Johnny-Crass]

If they brought Revan into the films I would die with happiness

 

[Count Matthewzilla]

And Reven would be played by...ORlando Bloom

 

[Johnny-Crass]

Anyone could play Revan... He wears a full mask:tongue:

 

[logan054]

Would Revan be a Hermaphrodite?

 

[Count Matthewzilla]

Hannah montanna?

 

[El Syf]

Just do what they did with vader get someone else to do the voice. In all the pictures revan seems quite short, maybe danny di vito should play him!

 

[Johnny-Crass]

Hate you guys.... Now I have to dig out my KOTR games and spend a few weeks playing through them.... And just when I started to paint again:slapface:

 

[Grish]

Disney's done a number of good films; just check out what they had a hand in.

They'll do the series more justice than Lucas films. The only reason the first 3 films were good was because Lucas didn't have a lot of clout, and people rewrote a lot of it.

 

[Count Matthewzilla]

I am mostly just picking at it because it's fun. I would like to see an old Republic trilogy though. Get away from the current age.

 

[Adam_Barrow]

I've been a retroactive non-Star Wars fan for a couple of years now, so i'm pretty meh about it really. But looking at Disney's subsidiaries, mainly Pixar (obviously those are huge movies every time), and Marvel (Avengers made literally all the money), Disney has a tendency to not mess with what's already working, except to throw their money behind it to make sure it's not ghetto.

If I still cared about Star Wars, I wouldn't be worried.

 

[Sweeney Todd]

I wonder how a High Sith Musical will turn out

 

[spineyrequiem]

As Grish said, the reason episodes 1-3 were a bit... bad is that Lucas pretty much took full control. Therefore, the less involvement he has, the better. In theory.

That said, if the main threat is the Empire's new, even bigger death star, I will be displeased.