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Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Due In 2015
Jason Levine writes "Disney will acquire Lucasfilm, including the Star Wars trilogy. Additionally, Star Wars: Episode 7 is due to be released in 2015, with more feature films on the way. George Lucas said, 'For the past 35 years, one of my greatest pleasures has been to see Star Wars passed from one generation to the next. It's now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers. I've always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime. I'm confident that with Lucasfilm under the leadership of Kathleen Kennedy, and having a new home within the Disney organization, Star Wars will certainly live on and flourish for many generations to come.'"
*checks date* ...Still October..
What if I do the same thing, and I do get different results?
as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Noooooo!!!!
It was as if a million tech geeks screamed out in horror and were suddenly silenced
Can't wait for "Star Wars on Ice"
Another day closer to redwood heaven
Ok I just flipped my opinion from "so what the Mayans are just issuing a calendar for the next year" to "oh noos signs of the apocalypse".
"It's not my fault!"
Personally, I have a bad feeling about this.
Star Wars VII: A New New Hope
It couldn't get any worse -
Holy Conception for Anakin?
Jedi's who are ruling the muther-phkin galaxy not realizing that one who will "bring balance to the force" would knock them down because at that time - it was out of balance - the GOOD side was winning!
And, Greedo shooting first?
These three things are a quick list to explain why an infant in a diaper scrawling on a wall with their own excrement could form a better Star Wars narrative than Lucas.
There is no try - there is only yawn.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
Emperor is dead. Vader comes back from the Dark Side and also dies. Luke & Leia know they're siblings.
Seriously, what's the plot going to be?
Jar-Jar becomes a Jedi!
by Mike Buddha -- Someday the mountain might get him, but the law never will.
Let the wailing and gnashing of teeth begin! Then again, it couldn't be worse than episodes 1 and 2.
Oh yeah? Picture this: Luke Skywalker's son flying off to be trained in the ways of the force by an aging Jar-Jar Binks. After stopping on the way to pick up Chewbacca's son. On Life Day.
Bet that's the scariest thought you'll have this Halloween.
Careful, they might just jump ahead to directly buying Joss Whedon.
Reports have confirmed Joss Whedon is going to harvest Yellow Stone National Park of all lumber. When confronted with this information Joss replied,
I am going to create the best and largest set of (wooden) actors that you will ever find. It will be a seamless transition from episodes 1 to 3. Even Lucas himself will not believe that he did not direct it.
Star Wars 7: The Search for More Money!
"Little does he know, but there is no 'I' in 'Idiot'!"
Like they'll sell out more than Lucas?
Disney, please stop raping our childhoods.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Love the tag "noooooooo". I keep this URL handy at work, for emergencies: http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/
Always makes me grin.
Disney has confirmed plans for a new trilogy (Episodes 7-9), and the movies are currently in "early stage development." They're looking to release a movie every other year, with 2015, 2017, and 2019 as the current target dates.
I'm personally rooting for expanding into some of Timothy Zahn's books as they move beyond those. I wonder how they'll treat the Extended Universe?
Pirates of Coruscant
Johnny Depp as Luke Skywalker - you heard it here first.
First Sandy as a disaster, now this.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Is this a troll? Disney?
It's the Frankentroll and what's worse, it's true.
Episode 7: The Sandy Storms of Tatooine in theaters 2015, someone alert FEMA
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Phantom's visual effects supervisor Rob Coleman recently told a seminar that he brought his concerns to George Lucas, who told him that he had designed Jar Jar to appeal to small children. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0171197/news?year=1999 Now with the disney ties, jar jar will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
It will be better to purchase from an owner who is a good farmer and a good builder.
I have a bad feeling about this.
Redundancy is good And also good.
Their journey to the Dark Side is Now complete..
The next trailer:
Scene filled with mist, lamentful orchestration of A New Hope
Narrator: A long time ago in a galaxy far away...
Mist parts and slow zoom in towards a small hut village
Narrator: It's just as hard being a kid as ever
Scene changes to inside a dark, wooden hut. You see the back of a woman wearing a long dress, but not her arms or the back of her head.
Mom: You had better eat all those vegitables!
Scene changes to a shot of a table with an 8 year old furry kid sitting at it, trying to feed his space broccoli to his pet alien dog thing.
Kid: Aw man!
Mom: Corbin! How will you ever become a big strong Ewok?
Narrator: Sometimes the world lines up against you...
Scene set in a schoolhouse. Music stops
Bully Ewok: You'll never amount to anything Corbutt!
Narrator: And tries to FORCE it's will upon you
Scene shot goes wider, and bully Ewok knocks the books out of Corbin's hand and all his fellow classmates point and laugh.
Scene changes to a shot of Corbin on his bed playing with his pet alien.
Corbin: I wish I could be a hero like uncle Skywalker...
Pans to a framed picture portrait on his desk showing a pregnant Ewok standing and smiling next to Luke and Leia.
Narrator: Until the littlest Ewok found his place in the universe
Song changes to Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Scene changes to the forest, and a smaller, pinker version of Jar Jar Binks shows her head out from behind a tree.
Car Car: Hi, meesah Car Car!
Laughing while they run through the trees, splash in rivers, meet Chewbacca's kid, etc etc etc
More Twoson than Cupertino
How about we form an open-source space drama with open-source characters? Open-source projects usually have StarWars-like names anyhow. I was certain "Ogg Vorbis" was a StarWars character when I first heard it.
Try this one out: R2buntu. Or Darth Vi-der vs. the Emoks.
Table-ized A.I.
Two words: Uwe Boll
Log in or piss off.
I forgot to add...
"Disney's JEDIS on ICE", "A Very Jedi Christmas", "Zack and Cody's Jedi Adventures", "Luke Skywalker: Jedi detective", "A Very Muppet Star Wars"... "Jabba's sweatin' to the Cantina Band"..... and my personal favorite... "Star Wars Holiday Special 2: Electric Boogaloo."
This has disaster written all over it. Lucas' new squeeze must want more money. :)
It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
Just you wait until they do another Christmas Special, then you'll be sorry.
Please consider this account deleted, I just can't be bothered with the spam anymore.
2 BILLION in cash? That must be a Calamari Cruiser full of bills! Don't these people have bank accounts? Whats the point of paying such a huge amount of money in cash? Does George intend to fill his house with money and perform some weirdo Scrooge McDuck impersonation?
available on most moderately disreputable trackers.
You mean, available at most wretched hives of scum and villainy? OK, but you must be cautious.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Hmm. Does this mean Princess Leia is now a Disney princess?
Episode IV: Directed by Quentin Tarantino.
"That's not a moon....that's a mother fuckin space station!"