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Disney buying Lucasfilm

f8explorer#7814 f8explorer
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edited November 2012 in Ten Forward
Breaking News from USAToday ... Disney buying Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion

Nuff said ... Star Wars has gone Mouse.
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  • bitemepwebitemepwe Member Posts: 6,760 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    genhauk wrote: »
    Breaking News from USAToday ... Disney buying Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion

    Nuff said ... Star Wars has gone Mouse.

    Now, Now Mickey will show George how one really mechandized an IP.........:D
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  • voporakvoporak Member Posts: 5,621 Arc User
    edited October 2012
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    U can haz Wolverine Vs Darth Maul?
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  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    Hey, maybe they're realize 'don't tick off your fans' and whip the IP into shape. They've done alright with Marvel. Could be a good thing.
  • f8explorer#7814 f8explorer
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    edited October 2012
    And what's this? ... from the article at http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2012/10/30/disney-star-wars-lucasfilm/1669739/

    "The latest part of the Star Wars saga, Star Wars Episode 7 is targeted for a 2015 release."
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  • drogyn1701drogyn1701 Member Posts: 3,606 Media Corps
    edited October 2012
    reginamala78 wrote: »
    Hey, maybe they're realize 'don't tick off your fans' and whip the IP into shape. They've done alright with Marvel. Could be a good thing.

    Exactly, they did OK with Pirates of the Caribbean as well (the first couple anyway), so I say bring it on as long as George Lucas isn't directing. Man has a genius imagination and comes up with some wonderfully intricate plots, but he seems to have lost his ability to direct and get the best out of actors.

    So, brainstorm everyone! Who would you get to direct the next Star Wars?

    I'd go for Ron Howard or Jon Favreau.
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  • hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    genhauk wrote: »
    And what's this? ... from the article at http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2012/10/30/disney-star-wars-lucasfilm/1669739/

    "The latest part of the Star Wars saga, Star Wars Episode 7 is targeted for a 2015 release."

    So, Truce at Bakura: The Movie, or prepare for basically the whole extended universe to get downgraded from C to N canon? Not that this would be a bad thing with as bad as some of its gotten over the years.


    Edit: and speaking of what Disney did with Marvel, I'm really hoping they just start throwing money around to get the movie rights to the rest of the universe back under one roof. Just the X-men would open up so many awesome possibilities, seeing as something like half of the classic matchups were Wolverine vs. Somebody.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    drogyn1701 wrote: »
    Exactly, they did OK with Pirates of the Caribbean as well (the first couple anyway), so I say bring it on as long as George Lucas isn't directing. Man has a genius imagination and comes up with some wonderfully intricate plots, but he seems to have lost his ability to direct and get the best out of actors.

    So, brainstorm everyone! Who would you get to direct the next Star Wars?

    I'd go for Ron Howard or Jon Favreau.
    I thought the fourth Pirates was pretty good too! Definately a new story arc getting started but not bad.
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  • lordmalak1lordmalak1 Member Posts: 4,681 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    Swell, 'Disney's Star Wars' will be on every DvD box now. Still not a bad payday, 4 billion for Lucasfilm, what did Lucas get for Pixar ?
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  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    hevach wrote: »
    So, Truce at Bakura: The Movie, or prepare for basically the whole extended universe to get downgraded from C to N canon? Not that this would be a bad thing with as bad as some of its gotten over the years.

    I really hope not. Better to go Legacy Era or further. It seems like the further away from the Skywalker Dynasty the stories get, the better they are.
  • darkenzedddarkenzedd Member Posts: 881
    edited October 2012
    Saw the news from one of my friends on farcebook.

    Not totally surprised....
  • carl103carl103 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    The trouble is Lucas has vetoed killng luke for AGES. it's hard to write good stories when you've allways got a main character who cna bassiclly i win allmost anything that comes along, and anything he even vaugely struggles against is so far beyond everyone else as to render them moot.

    Intresting move, i'm shocked he let the licence go tbh...
  • lordmalak1lordmalak1 Member Posts: 4,681 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    Only says he sold the company, not the IP.

    ...Then again if he did I'm sure he's gonna get royalties, and you know how Disney milks their IP, and Lucas now has 2 billion in Disney shares.
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  • raj011raj011 Member Posts: 987 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    just heard the good news on bcc news just now, here in the UK and I have just spread the good news on facebook about episode 7, yay! :D
  • amayakitsuneamayakitsune Member Posts: 977 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    We need a movie series based on the X-Wing series of books, those were great stories.
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  • diotwdiotw Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy (Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, The Last Command) are still my favourite Star Wars sequels. But since they're set only five years after Return of the Jedi, I think they're pretty safe. If they want to use the original actors to play the same characters in Episode VII, it's going to have to be set a good thirty years after Jedi. Either that, or they'll go even further and do a whole new generation.
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  • starcommando101starcommando101 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    Well This link says it all. Star Wars is not dead it seems. Disney wants to make some serious money off it so Episodes 8 and 9 will follow.
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  • captainrevo1captainrevo1 Member Posts: 3,948 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    brilliant news.

    star wars on screen is almost untouched with only 6 films under its belt (if you dont count the cartoons and stuff) so there is tons of ways they can go with this. some of the books and games have showed how good star wars can be when done right.

    yes there is always the risk it could suck, but you get that with any film, but i doubt disney paid all that money to go and make a half baked film. i expect the first one to be pretty spectacular.
  • f8explorer#7814 f8explorer
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    edited October 2012
    I hope they don't toss the extended universe from the books out the window when they do this.
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  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    For some strange reason I'm seeing an interesting Kingdom Hearts game on it's way....

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  • khayuungkhayuung Member Posts: 1,876 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    Singing and dancing Jedi. Hmm...

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  • khayuungkhayuung Member Posts: 1,876 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    Actually, that's a great idea!! :D

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  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    Wonder if they're going to kill the Clone Wars cartoon over this like they did with Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes?
  • hortworthortwort Member Posts: 281
    edited October 2012
    centersolace wrote: »
    For some strange reason I'm seeing an interesting Kingdom Hearts game on it's way....

    HAHAHA! That would be awesome. I enjoyed the first two. Silly, yet fun and amusing.
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  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    khayuung wrote: »
    Singing and dancing Jedi. Hmm...

    We tried that already.
  • tudenomtudenom Member Posts: 75 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    please please please please please do the Thrawn Trilogy!!!!!!
  • crypticarmsmancrypticarmsman Member Posts: 4,115 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    New for 2013:

    Star Wars Kingdom Hearts with Mickey, Goofy, Han Solo and Princess Lea all wield light sabers.

    (Seriously, one of the MAIN problems with the Star Wars films was George Lucas himself. If Disney actually hires someone who can write better dialogue, and a story that makes sense, this could be a good thing for the Star Wars franchise overall. We'll get someone concerned with the overall story and not jut the look of the Yoda 3D model for one particular scene. ;))
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  • tacofangstacofangs Member Posts: 2,951 Cryptic Developer
    edited October 2012
    Leia is now a Disney Princess.
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  • zadamazadama Member Posts: 78 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    I'm not sure about this, it could go either way - but I'm glad Star Wars is going to be on the big screen again, I just hope that the story is set a long time after the Skywalker Era. It's over and done with, and Disney should move Star Wars forward.
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