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Disney buys Lucasfilm
« on: October 30, 2012, 04:49:37 pm »
http://news.yahoo.com/disney-acquire-lucasfilm-ltd-195100740.html

Episode 7 will come out in 2015.

Well it turns out that the star wars brand was able to sink lower.
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Re: Disney buys Lucasfilm
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2012, 04:54:29 pm »
As was mentioned in the other thread, this opens up Star Wars for crossovers in the Kingdom Hearts franchise. Which will be... interesting! Force powers come not from bugs in your bloodstream, but from the darkness or light in your heart.
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Re: Disney buys Lucasfilm
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2012, 04:55:07 pm »
Quote from: mainiac on October 30, 2012, 04:49:37 pm
Well it turns out that the star wars brand was able to sink lower.

I dunno, it might be an improvement.
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Re: Disney buys Lucasfilm
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2012, 04:59:10 pm »
My theory is Lucas needs a bit more money to build his island that floats out in the middle of the Pacific. And no, you can't visit it or live on it.

Either that or he's looking to make his escape from Earth.
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Re: Disney buys Lucasfilm
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2012, 05:00:05 pm »
Quote from: nenjin on October 30, 2012, 04:59:10 pm
My theory is Lucas needs a bit more money to build his island that floats out in the middle of the Pacific. And no, you can't visit it or live on it.

Either that or he's looking to make his escape from Earth.
Since when was George Lucas an objectivist?
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Re: Disney buys Lucasfilm
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2012, 05:01:10 pm »
Quote from: nenjin on October 30, 2012, 04:59:10 pm
My theory is Lucas needs a bit more money to build his island that floats out in the middle of the Pacific. And no, you can't visit it or live on it.

Either that or he's looking to make his escape from Earth.
That's no island...
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Re: Disney buys Lucasfilm
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2012, 05:09:27 pm »
 I'm honestly optimistic. Looking forward to what Disney can do with Industrial Light & Magic. This also potentially opens up Disney owning The Dig, Day of the Tentacle and Full Throttle.

 It could also kill the extended universe, so good news for everybody!
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Re: Disney buys Lucasfilm
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2012, 05:10:05 pm »
Also, Episode 7 would run into the EU. Yay for conflicting canons. ::)
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Re: Disney buys Lucasfilm
« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2012, 05:14:47 pm »
Quote from: kaijyuu on October 30, 2012, 04:54:29 pm
As was mentioned in the other thread, this opens up Star Wars for crossovers in the Kingdom Hearts franchise. Which will be... interesting! Force powers come not from bugs in your bloodstream, but from the darkness or light in your heart.
Which is pretty much exactly what the Force was before anyway. (Though I subscribe to the idea that midichlorians are just a Force-sensitive species of microbial life that have nothing to do with generating it, only having their presence used as a metric for how in tune with the Force a person is.)
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« Reply #9 on: October 30, 2012, 05:18:11 pm »
Watch, as the next Star Wars villain ends up detailing his plot, IN SONG!
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« Reply #10 on: October 30, 2012, 05:19:00 pm »
I'm curious how the heck they're going to handle the actors being unable to portray the characters due to age and such.  Getting new actors is only going to incite new hatred...

I really don't know what to think about this at all.  On one hand, I was very disappointed with Episodes 1-3, so having Star Wars in new hands might not be a bad thing.  On the other, Disney apparently plans to "make a movie every 2 to 3 years" after the new trilogy, which sounds like they're already planning to bleed it dry.  And there's also the fact that I'm not a fan of a lot of EU stuff, such as the Yuuzhan Vong.  Well, maybe they'll just make movies about the parts I like.  :)

Some stuff about Thrawn would be very nice...
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Re: Disney buys Lucasfilm
« Reply #11 on: October 30, 2012, 05:21:36 pm »
The target audience is going to be kids, like the prequels.  That's pretty much a given.  So a whole lot of the EU is out the window as it's no good for the target audience.  It's going to be the retcon to end all retcons.
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Re: Disney buys Lucasfilm
« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2012, 05:24:45 pm »
Quote from: mainiac on October 30, 2012, 05:21:36 pm
The target audience is going to be kids, like the prequels.  That's pretty much a given.
You don't know that.
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« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2012, 05:25:28 pm »
Quote from: Telgin on October 30, 2012, 05:19:00 pm
I'm curious how the heck they're going to handle the actors being unable to portray the characters due to age and such.  Getting new actors is only going to incite new hatred...

My god... What. What if they make it animated, like the "clone wars" movie/show...
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Re: Disney buys Lucasfilm
« Reply #14 on: October 30, 2012, 05:32:30 pm »
   I actually like the extended universe up until the yuuzhan vong who I think are really just not Star Wars to me though I did learn a bit to much about them anyway because they are interesting in their own way.
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