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Disney's Titling Problem With Its Star Wars Movies

Posted by timothy on from the what-occupies-the-mind dept.

An anonymous reader writes "When George Lucas produced his Star Wars movies, he subtitled them 'Episode I,' 'Episode IV' etc. But that style will become inappropriate and confusing with Disney producing a new Star Wars movie each year, observes blogger Christopher Knight: 'Those were individual chapters of one story in an epic fantasy setting. And it suffices for that one multi-generational epic on film. Except now, there is the intent to produce several stories in that same setting. And they aren't necessarily going to pertain to the tale of the Skywalker family from Anakin to Luke to whoever it will be in the next trilogy.' Knight's solution is to retroactively amend the titles of Episodes I through IX to reflect it being the Skywalkers' saga, just as Lucas retroactively subtitled the first movie to be Episode IV."

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  1. Peh. by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They should just name them after the action figure each one is made to sell.

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  2. How about this by MonkeyPaw · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about this? Stop making stupid Star Wars movies and come up with a new idea.

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    1. Re:How about this by OhANameWhatName · · Score: 5, Insightful

      come up with a new ide

      Quit living in the past. Modern film making is about certainties. If you try to come up with a new idea, what if it didn't work?

      The studios need to know precisely what's going to happen before they even try. That's why you stick with the same formula over and over again and the only new content is derived from best selling works. That way you know what's going to fail and what's going to succeed.

      Risk is not an option.

    2. Re:How about this by mjwx · · Score: 3, Insightful

      come up with a new idea.

      Disney? Come up with a new idea? Hahaha, oh wow, are you kidding? They've finished sucking classical childrens stories dry, and now they've moved on to modern culture, Disney hasn't had a single original idea since the ink dried on Steam Boat Willy.

      This.

      Why do you think Disney supports copyright extensions/abuses with such reckless abandon?

      Because they dont want people doing to Disney what Disney did to Hans Christian Anderson.

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    3. Re:How about this by blackraven14250 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The Lion King was substantially ripped off too, from Kimba the White Lion. What, you thought Disney actually did anything original?

  3. I don't get it... by lrsach01 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What's the problem? There is almost 40 YEARS of novels and they never seem to have any trouble.

  4. Re:I recently embraced the New Imperialism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't forget about the Endor Holocaust

  5. Re:I recently embraced the New Imperialism by SuperKendall · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How many contractors died on death-star 2?

    All the ones that didn't care Alderaan had been blown up by the first one.

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  6. Re:Just use the A.D. notation . . . by plover · · Score: 5, Insightful

    . . . you know, like A.D., as in, "Anno Disneyi" . . . ?

    . . . and BCE . . . "Before Crap Era" . . .

    BCE == Before Copyrights were Eternal.

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  7. Ahem by justthinkit · · Score: 1, Insightful

    News for nerds, stuff that matters?

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  8. Re:Retroactively? by Darinbob · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The studio did say 9 very early on, after the initial release. However based on how they scripted things on the fly in the next two films, even changing major story lines, I seriously doubt Lucas had things planned out beyond a rough idea. The first movie is clearly a standalone one, and roughly follow the thematics parts of The hidden Fortress instead of being open ended.