Yes, Disney has purchased LucasFilm from George Lucas.

http://thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney- ... asfilm-ltd

I really don't know how to feel about this. I leaning toward... pleased?

George Lucas has proven himself unable to live up to the expectations set by his earlier career. The prequel movies just sucked. I actually hated them. Not only did they significantly change the back story of his existing Star Wars films, they failed to tell a story that I could enjoy. The Clone Wars TV show is an abomination that should never have lived.

Don't even forget what Lucas did to Indiana Jones. The Crystal Skull took a big dump on a franchise that otherwise might have still had legs. George Lucas added Shia LaBeouf as the son of Indiana Jones, and it is widely regarded as, as big a misstep as adding Jar Jar Binks to The Phantom Menace. Lucas was trying to entertain little children, at the expense of alienating his established fan base.

I was afraid of what Disney was going to do when it purchased Marvel Films from Marvel, but the movie, The Avengers eased my mind. Disney is all about pleasing the fans. Despite my concerns about the company as a whole, the one thing I can't fault them on is their ability to make a good movie.

Disney purchased the Muppets, and I lamented. But then I got the movie, The Muppets. Which played perfectly to its target audience. It was so much better than what Jim Henson Studios could do on its own. Jim Henson Studios just couldn't make another blockbuster film until Disney bought them out.

Disney has announced its intention to make a Star Wars Episode 7 movie, and slotted a release of 2015 as their target. Fans of Star Wars have been waiting for Episode 7 since 1983. Lucas has been dangling this carrot to fans for almost twenty years. Disney might actually deliver.

The most important thing Disney will do is give the directing reins to another worthy director. Star Wars has always been better when a new director has taken the helm. We might actually get a director with something more to say than just, "Give me your money, you slack jawed rubes."

We could see Indiana Jones revived. We might finally see a sequel to Labyrinth. (Remember, Disney owns The Muppets too.) It isn't just about Star Wars.

What do you think? Will Disney deliver the Star Wars fans have been craving? Or, will Disney add a cute talking chipmunk to be Luke Skywalker's sidekick?

My avatar was not impressed.

it would be a dream come true if they somehow managed to pull a story continuuam or a trilogy based

on the "knights of the old republic" series and games.

If youve ever played Starwars KOTOR1 and 2 you just gotta love Darth Revan, Darth Malik, the jedi exile, Darth sidious, Darth Kreia.(the story revolving around these characters are intensely deep and stimulating)

going even further back id Darth bane and the Rule of two

NM = All thing considered I'm def dreaming, I doubt disney would listen to it's fans on steam(there's where you find all the serious starwars fans interested in the days before the old republic)

I'm not impressed.

I never really like Star Wars to start and then when Jar Jar came along, I thought about pulling an Oedipus Rex to never see Star Wars again.

I have mixed feelings about this move.

On the one hand, sure there is now the potential for a new, actually good, Star Wars trilogy to try and wash out the taste of the prequels.

On the other, there's the potential for another Jar Jar Binks in an attempt to make the series more kid-friendly. (And more mass-marketing friendly.)

Either way though, it just confirms something to me that I'd suspected for quite awhile (ever since sitting in the theatre and watching Episode 1, actually)... Lucas has sold out. It's become about the money. I'd like to hope that Disney will take better care of Lucasfilms than Lucas did, but we'll have to see.

*.... mutters to himself, and wanders off, having visions of "Indiana Jones Jr", starring Shia Laboeuf, and "Star Wars - Episode 7: Ewok Jedi Arise"*

That is why they make movies, I myself like Jar Jar Binks, I have all six remastered disk in blue ray and watched them just a few weeks ago, if the character of Jar Jar Binks was not in the movie, the movie fails, he was the key that made everything else work.

As for storyline, yes they did change some thing that did not quite fit, then again they started with Chapter 4 and did not come out with Chapter 1 for 30 years. The dialog was for shit in the first three they made, it was somewhat better in the second set but even that was not what the movies were about.

It was about the music, the start of each movie, all the credits at the end and so much more.

Spielberg put the credits in the front of Raiders, remember seeing them? They started when Indiana started to run out of the temple with the big ball chasing him, it finished when he got out. Brilliant piece of film.

OK there was no message, never was. It was a simple story of good and evil and you grew to love the villain. Even Moi, is making breathing sounds here on the board.

They were movies to entertain nothing more, no message, you did not need to think, just sit back and enjoy.

Great stuff I loved every one of them right down and including Jar Jar Binks.

River

These are not the dwarves you're seeking...

Princess Leia on a mountaintop surrounded by fire after eating a poisoned banana...

Lewey, Huey, and Dewey meet the Ewoks.

As long as anyone who purchases such rights does not shelve them, okay.

Imagine, Star Trek totally shelved.

Babylon 5 and its' universe has been effectively shelved, or mismanaged.

With sufficient neglect I would like to see the Bab 5 universe or realms of Robert E. Howard

become public property until such time as the rightful owner takes rightful responsibility

to keep those works, alive.

I hope Lucas was just looking for a good home for his realms and not the money.

Moi

Imagine, cruising down town Modesto, California

and becoming famous for it.

Queue up the theme song from "Duck Tales" now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Sb0hGUNIQ

Scrooge McDuck tries on a Vader costume:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzs-OvfG8tE

Later, after choking the Officer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79c5JKjAQFg

Who really ate the ice cream:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgsK9fuO2a8

Luke goes after them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=tLU ... ature=fvwp

But they're too late:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djZFHTa6TfA

Anyway, you can see where this Disney-fest is headed if they make another Star Wars movie.

What it boils down to, is can my week possibly get any worse?!

moi621 (imported) wrote: Fri Nov 02, 2012 7:02 pm As long as anyone who purchases such rights does not shelve them, okay.

Imagine, Star Trek totally shelved.

Babylon 5 and its' universe has been effectively shelved, or mismanaged.

With sufficient neglect I would like to see the Bab 5 universe or realms of Robert E. Howard

become public property until such time as the rightful owner takes rightful responsibility

to keep those works, alive.

I hope Lucas was just looking for a good home for his realms and not the money.

Moi

Imagine, cruising down town Modesto, California

and becoming famous for it.

Did you know that they have Graffiti Night every year, they close off every side street for a few miles and its vendors on the street and every hot rod in the country cruising down the street.

Remember the drag race, dark lonely road, it was filmed on the road leaving town, on one side of the street lived Ernest on the other Julio, Modesto home of Gallo wines. The wind mill coffee shop is still there and still that god awful yellow.

River