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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.'"
Not April
Seems fitting as Disney has already picked up a few of the older ILM guys when they acquired Pixar.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly...
It ain't no trick to get rich quick
If you dig dig dig with a shovel or a pick
In a mine! In a mine! In a mine! In a mine!
Where a million diamonds shine!
Heigh ho, heigh ho, we'll rape your memories you know.
Yeah - Marvel was SUCH a bad buy for Disney, and horrible for Marvel...
5/7/2010 Disney Iron Man 2 $128,122,480
5/4/2012 Disney Marvel's The Avengers $207,438,708
No, for PIXAR to have "bought" Disney, Jobs would have to have ended up with over 50% of Disney holdings. Instead, he received approximately 7% of Disney stock as part of the stock swap. While this did make him the single largest shareholder of Disney, he did not end up with enough stock to control the company. Two of the top institutional holders together (4% each) could easily outvote him (and now his estate).
Then again, why let facts get in the way of a good story...
There are a couple of people/groups out there who are trying to take the highest quality versions and mix out all the changes. "Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition" is said to be the best by far at the moment - available on most moderately disreputable trackers.
Oh, yes there are. Or were, at least. They were "bonus discs" with one of the Special Edition DVD releases, but they were officially sanctioned DVDs of the original theatrical cuts. Episode IV was even just plain Star Wars in the opening text.
No, Joss Whedon is the same as George Lucas: they both work well with supervision. Compare the Firefly comics with the series, so many things are just out of character and wrong in the comics, because Joss was unsupervised.
I will have to dispute that, and submit Dr. Horrible and Much Ado as evidence. Joss Whedon was 100% unsupervised when doing those.
morcego
But they're matted widescreen Laserdisc rips. They're literally 4:3 ratio with the black bars at the top and bottom as part of the image itself. If you show them on a 16:9 screen you have to use the zoom feature to get the film to fit the width of the screen, which means that you are only using a very small portion of the 480 rows available in DVD format, as most of the image is spent on those useless black bars.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
That is part of the enthusiasm that is perplexing me.. have people forgotten about Disney's behavior when it comes to releases... they are no stranger to locking away movies for decades or releasing edited versions... Lucas, while somewhat misguided, at least believed he was making things better and wanted people watching his stuff. Disney is too politically entangled when it comes to content and is into the 'artificial scarcity' model of releasing older works.
I really prefer that Seth Green guy better. The Robot Chicken sendup was funnier.
There already is a picture of Mickey crossing light-sabers: http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/63819000/jpg/_63819199_starwars.jpg (Minnie is in the picture too. *sigh*)
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