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Disney aims to release a new Star Wars film EVERY summer
hawkwing43
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Yes that's right, starting next year with episode 7, Disney will have a new star wars film every year that follows.
read more here:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/cinemaconnews.php?id=103129
Now I really hope this works out in the best way, but hey it's Disney, it's Star Wars, and it should be a fun ride right? after all how many flops has Disney made over the years?
read more here:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/cinemaconnews.php?id=103129
Now I really hope this works out in the best way, but hey it's Disney, it's Star Wars, and it should be a fun ride right? after all how many flops has Disney made over the years?
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There's a lot of stories to be told in the SW 'verse. They don't all need to focus on the same group of folks every single time.
My concern is that Movies of this caliber require more then just a years work. The Marvel/Avengers movies are about 2-3 years to make, assuming you start from pre-production up to release.
Not sure even Disney has the resources to crank out a quality sci-fi movie once every year.
If they would just adapt the books (Timothy Zahn trilogy or even the X-Wing series) into movies then they could win big.
If this is going to be for a short run, 2 or 3 years then maybe, but if they turn things into a sausage mill operation spitting out a movie every year I don't see how what comes out is going to be any good. Just getting good actors to commit to working on the title for more than a few years will be a big deal and a bunch of mediocre no-names stumbling around with light sabers is likely to do very bad things to the franchise.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22197797
Disney has said a new Star Wars film will appear yearly from 2015, alternating between new episodes in the space saga and spinoff character films.
The announcement, made at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, was reported by Comingsoon.
Star Trek director JJ Abrams will begin the new cycle of movies with Episode VII, from a script by Little Miss Sunshine writer Michael Arndt.
Star Wars creator George Lucas sold his film production company Lucasfilm to Disney last year for $4.05bn (?2.5bn).
The latest announcement was made by Walt Disney Co chairman Alan Horn, at the annual movie theatre convention CinemaCon in Las Vegas.
In February, Disney announced that alongside a new trilogy, a series of films built around existing characters from the Star Wars universe were in development.
It is rumoured the first stand-alone film could focus on the diminutive Jedi master Yoda.
The spinoff films will be written by Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg.
Yoda statue outside Lucasfilm's San Francisco offices The character of Yoda was voiced by film director and puppeteer Frank Oz
Kasdan worked on the scripts of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi - the second and third instalments of the first Star Wars trilogy while Kinberg is best known for his work on X-Men: The Last Stand and Guy Ritchie's hit reboot of Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr.
'Bad feeling'
Fan reaction to Disney's announcement on social networks and film websites have been mixed. "Ridiculous", tweeted The Mail Man, "I've got a bad feeling about this," remarked Kurt Brookes, using one of the film's famous lines.
"New Star Wars every year? My kids are overjoyed," said Bryan Hitch.
Writing for Forbes magazine, Carol Pinchefsky, said: "The Twitterati are already concerned that there will be a Star Wars overload, that the movies will be "force marched" out as fast as Disney can make them.
"After all, Disney isn't typically known for pumping out entries in a franchise this rapidly (Pirates of the Caribbean notwithstanding)."
The original Star Wars film, released in the UK in 1977, starred Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford as they took on the evil Empire "in a galaxy, far, far away".
In a recent interview George Lucas hinted at a cast reunion, revealing the trio were "in final stages of negotiation".
Fortunately, SW is one of the few sci-fi 'verses that doesn't futz with time travel. Hopefully JJ will remember that before creating another black hole.
look at law and order and CSI, they have all played their cards on a variation on a theme and even they ran out of content after 10 seasons.
stargate sg1 also hit that brick wall after 10 seasons seeing no point continuing. NCIS is probably not far off that either.
the point in the end is that releasing a film every year may sound good, but the content and the theme will start to become stale. from that i deduce it wont be a proper story but a cash cow to rake money in off the back of the star wars name for as long as possible.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone
Considering how much Lucas overrwrote with the Clone Wars, it's nothing new.
However, the various Tolkien-based movies were able to be released on an annual basis because Peter Jackson insisted on filming each trilogy as one long film shoot, so that everything was in the can before the very first theatrical release. For one thing, that avoids the possibility of characters like Legolas, essentially deathless, being forced to age because the actor is visibly older. (It also avoids having to worry about what happens to your actors between films - you've already got the performance you need.)
As long as the schedule Disney wants isn't a series of movies all centering on the same characters, said schedule might - might - be doable. I'll believe it when I see it, though.
Worms that eat the Force? Wtf?
Also, 'Luuke Skywalker' made perfect sense - if C'baoth couldn't have the real Skywalker, he'd have a clone with equal capabilities. One that would be far more willing to accept him as his superior.
You see something similar in the The Force Unleashed game series - Vader keeps cloning in TFU2 until he gets what he needs.
And by the way, what you call 'unneeded back stories', I find superior to "unnamed this, unnamed that" that you find on Memory Alpha. Speaking of which, doesn't Memory Beta contain the same sort of info, from the same kinds of sources? :cool:
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
I hope STO get's better ...
thats not what im getting at, some film makers base their films on real events but only 5% of it is actually from the real event and the rest of it exaggerated or made up in order to make it watchable.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
It gets worse. Jedi rabbits, Ghost robots, Luke going mad with power, the Emperors Evil(er) clone, and an almighty solar system destroying superweapon...
....that looks like an Ice Cream Cone.
Yeah, seriously. A single-currency economy that ties the economic output of Germany to that of Greece and Spain without regard for-
Oh, you meant Star Wars books.
Yeah, those suck too.
...Oh, baby, you know, I've really got to leave you / Oh, I can hear it callin 'me / I said don't you hear it callin' me the way it used to do?...
- Anne Bredon
Yesss! Fleet Olympic upgrade!
http://images.wikia.com/memoryalpha/en/images/c/c3/Planet_killer.jpg
:cool:
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone
That's an alien superweapon built by an unknown, extragalactic race who we know nothing about. The same folks that built the Death Star twice, managed to make a version that was the size of an X-Wing, is nearly indestructible, and capable of causing a Star to go supernova regardless of age or size...
and.
it.
looks.
like.
this.
All I'm saying, is that if you make a ship that Mary Sue herself would call overpowered, at least make it look cool.
I used to think I liked Star Wars more. Then came those prequels. Episode II in particular really hurt. I just pretend that my untouched original trilogy VHS tapes are the only Star Wars movies.
Trek has entertained me and given me more enjoyment over the years I've come to realize.
At this point I have very little faith in Star Wars doing anything good again. And I've lost almost all interest. I'll redbox them I suppose. But where once such news would have excited me, now I just feel like: 'meh'.
I choose to live in an alternate reality in which George Lucas sadly passed away in 1989, shortly after the release of The Last Crusade, and everything since then has just been part of someone else's bad dream.
...Oh, baby, you know, I've really got to leave you / Oh, I can hear it callin 'me / I said don't you hear it callin' me the way it used to do?...
- Anne Bredon
I say YES! to that.
And:
http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20130419
You should change your link to http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20130419 or else the comic would release something else and people won't see the proper comic.
Oh hey, I live in that universe too.