Disney bought Star Wars & Indiana Jones. - Episode 7 in 2015
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While I am totally down with the idea of someone else taking over the direction or Star Wars I would have preferred Christopher Nolan or Peter Jackson just step in.
Not terribly excited that Mickey Mouse will be in charge of it unless it was under the care of Pixar since they make good films.
They have shown with Marvel they can make some good movies though so perhaps they will bring Star Wars back to kicking ass.
While I am totally down with the idea of someone else taking over the direction or Star Wars I would have preferred Christopher Nolan or Peter Jackson just step in.
Not terribly excited that Mickey Mouse will be in charge of it unless it was under the care of Pixar since they make good films.
They have shown with Marvel they can make some good movies though so perhaps they will bring Star Wars back to kicking ass.
HOLY F'N S.
Hope for the franchise... I never thought I would have it again.
One could say I have.... a new hope?
Lucas will be creative consultant on new "Star Wars" films.
Lucas said in a statement, "It's now time for me to pass 'Star Wars' on to a new generation of filmmakers."
Hope for the franchise... I never thought I would have it again.
One could say I have.... a new hope?
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
It's still Disney. It'll just suck in an even more anti-Semitic way.
In other news...
Somewhere in hell, the furnace just died.
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In other news...
Lucas said in a statement, "It's now time for me to pass 'Star Wars' on to a new generation of filmmakers."
Somewhere in hell, the furnace just died.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
They can do a Star Wars one and a Marvel one.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
They bought Pizar for 7 or 8 billion, so yeah, this was cheap. Kind of points out how far George was driving it into the ground.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Consultants of any sort have no real power.GORDON wrote:But he is still on as a "creative consultant..." I hope to hell he doesn't have any actual power.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
I imagine that title is ceremonial.
I'm now praying that they make the Timothy Zahn books into movies.
I'm now praying that they make the Timothy Zahn books into movies.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
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Mark my words.... Episode 7 will be all goddamned Ewoks. And Chewbacca will have a perm and PTSD from the final battle. Then we have to have the token black guy/chick... forget Billy Dee Williams. We're getting Will Smith or his bratty little kid. C3P0 will finally come out of the closet and admit he's been taking it up the exhaust pipe from IG-88 for years. R2D2 will be turned into a karaoke machine.... Luke will become a homeless religious nut while Han Solo and Leia will have 6 kids on galactic welfare... and the evil Ritt Momney will threaten to close the youth center Han and Leia run unless the duo can field a tiddlywinks team in time for the big tournament on Yaavin IV. Meanwhile, the Emperor's clones will become the universe's ugliest choir.
It occurs to me that there's a reasonable chance that Disney may turn to their new favorite franchise director (a la The Avengers) to direct the new Star Wars movies.
This thought might cause Malcolm to explode.
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This thought might cause Malcolm to explode.
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GORDON wrote:Marvel put out some damned fine movies <s>in spite of being</s> under Disney.... I have nothing but good thoughts about this.
And besides... everything in the above quote is still better than anything Lucas has done in the last 20 years.
The last sci-fi movie Disney put out.
On May 8, 2012, the Walt Disney Company released a statement on its earnings which attributed the $161 million deterioration in the operating income of their Studio Entertainment division to a loss of $84 million in the quarter ending March 2012 "primarily" to the performance of John Carter and the associated cost write-down.
Ouch.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
If any studio has the potential to fuck up alien races like Lucas, it's Disney. I do not associate Disney with sci-fi flicks in a positive way. Last one they made they didn't suck was Tron. If you think the supporting/atmospheric characters in their fucking cartoons are annoying, just wait.thibodeaux wrote:Mark my words.... Episode 7 will be all goddamned Ewoks.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
A lot of people in Hollywood probably grew up on Star Wars and have thought of various ways to tell SW stories, and now they can.
The problem will be sorting through the crap to get to the good stuff. They can't do names alone. They've got to listen to pitches.
I'd like to see them switch up the Thrawn stuff, and have him bring the attack to a struggling new republic. The Jedi are still reforming, and Luke has left a new order that is turning its back on the Jedi. Leia is part of the governing body, but is being suppressed by other interests. Basically, make it ripe for the Empire to take back over.
The key would be to let the Empire and Thrawn win at the end of the new trilogy. Otherwise what are all of your new movies going to be about?
The problem will be sorting through the crap to get to the good stuff. They can't do names alone. They've got to listen to pitches.
I'd like to see them switch up the Thrawn stuff, and have him bring the attack to a struggling new republic. The Jedi are still reforming, and Luke has left a new order that is turning its back on the Jedi. Leia is part of the governing body, but is being suppressed by other interests. Basically, make it ripe for the Empire to take back over.
The key would be to let the Empire and Thrawn win at the end of the new trilogy. Otherwise what are all of your new movies going to be about?
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”