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Disney Acquires LucasFilm for $4.05 billion, Episode 7 in 2015, 8 and 9 to Follow, New Film Every 2-3 Years — Page 3

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There is a silver lining if Disney mines the LFL vaults for product. We might get a full release of the Droids & Ewoks cartoons.

Heck, we might even get the Holiday Special? On second thought... 

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nightstalkerpoet said:

I keep looking to the PotC movies, and it brings me hope for a sequel trilogy...

Why? Those films were shit!

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Murry Sparkles said:

I agree 100% on this, lets make Disney know now how much the original Star Wars 1977-1983 is wanted by the public.

Here's the problem: Is it really wanted all that much? I mean, obviously it has a market with Star Wars fans (even Lucas gushers), but fandoms have proven repeatedly that they can't support releases all by themselves. It might pick up the non-fan film preservationists, but there's fewer of those than there are fans. There needs to be demand among the general public, and I just don't know if that exists. Whatever Lucas's hang-ups were about the OT, he obviously had an emotional perception of it. Disney won't. To Disney, it's just another product, and the inconvenient truth here is that the average consumer would be satisfied with the 2011 editions. And no, "re-educating" consumers is never going to happen, so don't bother.

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You know, I'm one of the few who doesn't hate George. On the contrary, actually. To me, anything Star Wars related (in terms of visuals and story) has to come from his mind and/or his acceptance. And I'm not sure if whatever movies come in the future will have that. Love or hate the prequels, all six movies share many qualities, styles, themes and the like. And without him, I'm not sure we will ever get that again.

On the positive side, we may actually get the OUT. But I never wanted to pay this "price" for them.

Overall, these are very bad news in my opinion.

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adywan said:

Just posted by starwars.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyqlTi7lkhY&feature=share

 

The forum is starting to become a little unstable. I'm glad your post of it went through though.

What I found interesting in that was:

"I have story treatments of 7,8 and 9. And a bunch of other movies."

- George Lucas

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With regards to how this affects the possibility of OUT on Blu-Ray, I'm hopeful we will at least get a seamless branched version offering a choice between the SE and something they call the original.

Based on how they treated the Lion King, their "original" would be full of re-rotoscoped lightsabres and the like, but no Jabba or shot from Greedo.

I think it will be close enough for a lot of people. I can imagine them releasing a version that, if George had released it as his SE in 1997, wouldn't have made enough people angry enough for sites like this to exist.

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all these year Lucas has said there was no 789.  It just came out of his own month that he did.  What a lie! 

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Wow. Have to think about this to get some kind of opinion about it... Not sure what to think.

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SilverWook said:

That's the title Gene Roddenberry had on all the Star Trek films made after TMP.

With all due respect I'd put Roddenberry in a higher tier than Lucas for idea conception, development, and realization. ;)

I don't think George Lucas has proven himself to be as competent in those regards, despite mass opinion, but I digress.

*edited for typo. I wouldn't "but" Roddenberry.

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Troyig88 said:

all these year Lucas has said there was no 789.  It just came out of his own month that he did.  What a lie! 

He did say there were going to be nine movies in the original making of ESB book. Why he claimed he was misquoted, or that the written treatments never existed in the intervening decades is anyone's guess.

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I can describe this news with only two sentences:

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

 

 

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Those trolls at originaltrilogy.com are mean and disrespectfull.

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Wow, not sure what to say. On the one hand, it's sad to see Lucas not in charge any more. Yeah, I'm annoyed about still not having the fully restored original unaltered trilogy available, but still, it's going to be weird not having George running the whole thing in his flannel shirt. :(

At the same time, maybe now there will be a proper restoration of the unaltered Star Wars trilogy done. Get Harris on the job and use the finest prints in existence to restore the trilogy to opening day appearance to the greatest degree possible using the finest techniques available and all the time needed to do a first-class job. Then scan the whole thing in at 4k (including fully restored film of deleted scenes, like Biggs with Luke in the hangar on Yavin 4) and put the prints in ideal storage conditions for later. The we can have DVD and Blu-ray sets of the highest picture quality, and with original stereo and 70mm soundtrack options, DTS high bit-rate for DVD, and DTS lossless on the Blu-ray disks. That would be awesome. :)

The other concern is for the new movies. While George may have put some... questionable things in the prequels, there is a certain feel that Star Wars movies have that is still there even in the prequels, a style, an atmosphere. And I wonder if that will be lost in the new movies. But maybe with George there consulting on them, that can be avoided.

On the other hand, I'm kind of dreading new movies, how can you follow the great original trilogy, where will the story go, will they turn into some pc mess? This Thrawn thing sounds stupid, Imperial forces wouldn't follow an alien, they have very strong anti-alien policies and attitudes from the ground up, so I certainly hope they don't do that, that would be absurd. Just ignore the books and focus on fighting Imperial remnant forces, perhaps some threat from Korriban at the heart of a plot against the New Republic? Seeing Luke (has to be Hamill) as a Jedi Master wielding a lightsaber would be really cool if the story were well done, though. :)

Lastly, I'm concerned about the forum here. Hopefully Disney will leave well-enough alone...

The Star Wars trilogy. There can be only one.

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SilverWook said:

Troyig88 said:

all these year Lucas has said there was no 789.  It just came out of his own month that he did.  What a lie! 

He did say there were going to be nine movies in the original making of ESB book.

Now now. People round here say a lot of nasty things about George Lucas, but I will not hear it said that he is inconsistent.

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Wow! I have many feelings about this. Also, I agree that another petition would be a wise idea. Could it hurt? We've been very vocal about the issue of a good OUT release already, and if anything, I think Walt Disney Corporation wants profit. I think that making the demand a very visible thing could be a good idea.

I'm surprised at how small of my amount of fan-rage is about the sequel trilogy is. Part of me though for a very long time that it would happen eventually, but I felt comfortable denying that. Given how horrendous (some of) the EU can be, in my opinion, it could be a lot more unnoticed than I would have expected.

 

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georgec said:

SilverWook said:

That's the title Gene Roddenberry had on all the Star Trek films made after TMP.

With all due respect I'd but Roddenberry in a higher tier than Lucas for idea conception, development, and realization. ;)

I don't think George Lucas has proven himself to be as competent in those regards, despite mass opinion, but I digress.

 

I wasn't attempting to equate Gene and George, merely stating there is a precedent for a creator to step back while someone else takes the controls. The amount of input Gene actually had on the later Trek sequels has been debated in fan circles.

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georgec said:

With all due respect I'd but Roddenberry in a higher tier than Lucas for idea conception, development, and realization. ;)

I don't think George Lucas has proven himself to be as competent in those regards, despite mass opinion, but I digress.

 

Eh, if you really pushed me about it, I'd put them at about the same level, especially if we're talking the later years for both. The "utopian" aspect of the Federation was easily it's weakest trait (almost to the point of being disgustingly overbearing; how can everything be so perfect that no one has headaches anymore?), and that trait is what most separates Roddenberry Trek from post-Roddenberry Trek in terms of atmosphere. A civilization that is quite literally above any and all flaws is so utterly ridiculous, it hurts the premise a lot more than the noticeable lack of non-humanoid aliens.

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Even when it's not officially acknowledged, Lucas has tons of stuff he wrote for the saga, going all the way back to the early 70's. There's no way Disney would create a sequel without using that resource.

I'll bet Mark Hamill's phone is ringing quite a bit today. ;)

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adywan said:

Just posted by starwars.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyqlTi7lkhY&feature=share

 

 

Everyone needs to watch that clip since you hear it in George's own words. "I have treatments for 7, 8  and 9"

I'm stunned, still processing all this.  George has been absolutely lying for 10 plus years to us.  Sure we knew he was lying or was at least delusional but now its confirmed in his own words.  And he lied to the press, everyone.  Even in the films themselves they have the tacked on wrap up at the end of ROTJ SE.

I think George was done with SW long ago.  He finally got to make the films he wanted to make back in the 70s without budget constraints (the prequels with their large armies and big canvas) and is now giving it all up.  Literally selling the whole lot of characters to be done with.

This is a sad day in a way.  I was never that much of an EU fan, for me if Lucas didn't touch it, it wasn't canon.  Now its all extended universe from here on out.  Yeesh.

 

 

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I guess it was.... inevitable. Fingers crossed that Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher show up. 

George Lucas was seduced by the dark side. The OOT ceased to exist in his mind and became the Special Editions...." "They're more maching now than movies. Twisted and evil."
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What the.........?????

I just got a text message about this and said back that it's all a load of bull and that I had not heard anything on the boards about it.

....And here we are.

So much news at once I just can't take it all in.

 

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Please leave the Skywalker saga alone.

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Spit-take!

As crass and lame as the situation has been with the original versions, seeing GL hand it over to be a regular franchise instead of his personal, fetishy, weirdo playground is a little sad. Kennedy is cool and I'm sure she's good for the job. I would hope this is good news for the OT. You would think that, P.R.-wise, it would get off on the wrong foot if they said "We have billions of dollars, all the resources available on earth, tons of new stuff on the way, but fuck those old movies that got us here."

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JennyS1138 said:

I guess it was.... inevitable. Fingers crossed that Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher show up. 

I think it's safe to say this will not happen for the most obvious of reasons.

This is terrible for Star Wars fans, and I mean the original film not a saga or a franchise. What was once a magical film is going to be continually dragged through more mud to just to make a lot of bucks in even more merchandise, theme parks, spin-offs and who knows what else.

Selfishly yes one hopes the OUT theatrical cuts might eventually get a release (Lucas will still be an employee as an advisor I have read), but it means when I have kids they will grow up with a Star Wars that is just a franchise giant of crap, as opposed to a beautiful movie, and no matter how hard one tries their view of it will be tainted.  Terrible day in the history of cinema, in my opinion.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MajE0PcEoUU&feature=g-u-u

Egh. Like everyone else, I have mixed feelings about this. But all we can do now is speculate. The fact that Disney bought Lucasfilm doesn't automatically mean there's a higher probability that the unaltered versions of the original trilogy will be released. We simply don't know yet. It's certainly a change, if it's a change for the better or for the worse (or neither) is something we have yet to see. Less Lucas sounds good though.

We can expect one thing from Episode 7 though...