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.'"

Comments

Re:Because it worked so well before

[DontScotty]

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

Re:I'm Optimistic

[asdf7890]

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.

Re:I'm Optimistic

[YukariHirai]

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.

Re:Joss Whedon's Star Wars

[morcego]

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.

Re:I'm Optimistic

[TWX]

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.