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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 8

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I respected George Lucas, apart form the GOUT. Buts the news I'm hearing is that 3 new movies, maybe a restore OUT plus. The con is that there maybe no more fan films.   

One day we will have properly restored versions of the Original Unaltered Trilogy (OUT); or 1977, 1980, 1983 Theatrical released versions (Like 4K77,4K80 and 4K83); including Prequels. So that future generations can enjoy these historic films that changed cinema forever.

Yoda: Try not, do or do not, there is no try.

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JJ just made another average Star Trek film if it brought any roots to the table it was Star Wars'. (or maybe Super Star Wars what with all that platform jumping)

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I just read that Fox owns distribution rights to the existing movies until 2020, so I'm really not sure what that means for a possible OT restoration.

“In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be “replaced” by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.” - George Lucas

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I don't know what to think.  As much as we complained about the prequels, there was a certain romanticism about George in his castle, making all these inexplicable changes and plot lines that only made sense to him.  He created the universe from scratch. 

Now it is a Disney franchise?  We'll be getting "Episode 23" down the road? I don't know, it just makes me feel uneasy somehow.

I wish that I could just wish my feelings away...but I can't.  Wishful wishing can only lead to wishes wished for in futile wishfulness, which is not what I wish to wish for. 

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evan1975 said:

Oh yeah, I forgot to ask, how are the apologists handling this?

They seem to be mainly in two camps,  1. They think it's horrible because it means the story is no longer complete - the way they think it is and should be.  2. They are convinced that behind the scenes, Lucas will retain full creative rights and intellectual property control.  Apparently they have no idea how Disney operates.  ;-)

Today they took a hit - the way we did 15 years ago.  Funny to see them scramble to make sense of the wrong they were just dealt.  Being a powerless, voiceless fan - it sucks.

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Alexrd said:

To me, anything Star Wars related...has to come from his mind

Considering I'm the polar opposite - I only follow\own\care about Star Wars that is non-Lucas - this has the potential to be positive.

Abrams got Star Trek back to it's roots, so maybe Disney can give the world something Star Wars other than the twirling colors, small galaxy, children's films that Lucas turned them into in 1983.

 

 

Side point - Abrams made Star Trek fun and interesting again, but brought it back to it's roots? Nah. He made it more like Star Wars (many parallels between the two films.)

“I find your lack of faith disturbing.”

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Re: that Photoshop: Give me a break. Marvel fans went through this angst three years ago, and in retrospect, it was all for nothing. I'm sure Lucasfilm will function as a basically autonomous entity just like Marvel does.

Really, nothing has changed. Star Wars is still being beaten like a dead horse, and I still plan to ignore anything new from the franchise. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

And as for OT.com, when you stop and think about it without resorting to the standard kneejerk reactions about Disney, do you really think they're going to care about us any more than Lucas did? This isn't Fox shutting down Buffy fansites in 1998.

IMO, we don't owe our continued existence solely to George Lucas' magnanimity. We owe it to the fact that we're small fish in a big pond. I don't think Disney's lawyers are going to care about us any more than Lucasfilm's lawyers (who I'm sure will still be in place under Disney ownership).

If someone wanted to to shut us down, they'd have done it a long time ago. I'm not losing any sleep over this.

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I can't imagine they'd build a new trilogy around Ford/Fisher/Hamill, but I would think cameos would be distracting as hell. (maybe they'll get paid to do a post-credits scene for JEDI 3D).

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I guess that's my big question- does this mean the return of Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford to Star Wars?

I wish that I could just wish my feelings away...but I can't.  Wishful wishing can only lead to wishes wished for in futile wishfulness, which is not what I wish to wish for. 

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Knowing how Hamill feels about what's been done to Star Wars already, I have a feeling he's gonna say no.

And Harrison Ford as old Han Solo would be as depressing as Harrison Ford as old Indy.

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I am glad that Episode 7 is going to be based on George Lucas' story treatment.  That makes it all right somehow; we know it will be authentic.

Also, how much do you want to bet it turns out like "Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi"- i.e. George is the creative consultant but as he watches the movies getting made, he can't help but start getting his hands in it again. 

I think he will be very much involved in Episode 7 regardless what he is saying now.

In which case that would actually be a really good thing- Lucas is best as an equal member of a team.

I wish that I could just wish my feelings away...but I can't.  Wishful wishing can only lead to wishes wished for in futile wishfulness, which is not what I wish to wish for. 

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Unless they set the sequels centuries after ROTJ, you'd expect to see Artoo and Threepio at the very least. Lucas always said they were intended to be the characters that appear in the entire saga.

Mark Hamill taking the up Obi Wan mantle and passing the torch to a new Jedi will get us old coots to buy a ticket. ;)

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my guess is there is going to be a 3rd Death Star.

looking for HDTV of the  Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.  Also HDTV of The Lord of the Rings trilogy

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Read my above comments. Hamill has trashed the Special Editions and prequels, I don't think he has any interest in returning to SW.

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We've gone from the eleventh to the twelfth level of hell with this Disney deal. The new SW will be so awful they will make us pine for the artistic integrity of the prequels (Remember Pirates 4 or the Burton Alice in Wonderland anyone?). Instead of the originals being preserved, the surviving negatives of the OOT will go into the incinerator by the end of the year, and anyone making fan films will put on death row ASAP. Remember, these are the monsters that broke our copyright law system back in '76. 

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Troyig88 said:

my guess is there is going to be a 3rd Death Star.

LOL.  I hope not.

"This time it'll really work!"

I wish that I could just wish my feelings away...but I can't.  Wishful wishing can only lead to wishes wished for in futile wishfulness, which is not what I wish to wish for. 

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Knowing how Hamill feels about what's been done to Star Wars already, I have a feeling he's gonna say no.

And Harrison Ford as old Han Solo would be as depressing as Harrison Ford as old Indy.

How does Mark feel about it? Last time I saw him on tv, he didn't have anything negative to say.

There's also a old saying about "Money talks..."

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Less than an hour before I found out the news, I was describing a time when the EU only consisted of Splinter of the Minds Eye, the Han Solo trilogy, the Lando trilogy, Heir to the Empire and Dark Empire as "a more civilized age." If only I'd have known how true my word where.

The Digital Bits have updated there article with more details:

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/103012_1300

Of note: Fox retains certain distribution rights to the existing Star Wars films but not the new franchise films going forward

 

This to me suggests that nothing will change with regards to the OUT, Disney wont have any say in whether it will be released or not.

I doubt this will affect the already announced  3D re-release of Episodes II & III in September & October 2013 but how will this affect the 3D release of the OT?

I'd expect to see all 3 released throughout 2014 in preparation for the new movies in "2015." I put the year in quotation marks as I don't think a new Star Wars movie could be released in that short a time scale.

As for my thoughts on a Sequel Trilogy, they haven't changed since March, 2011

 

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/the-reasons-why-episodes-7-8-and-9-will-should-be-made/post/482854/#TopicPost482854

There's no artistic reason to continue the story that ended with the deaths of Vader & Palpatine and this is all about money.

I'm not holding my breath for a decent blu-ray release of any Disney owned Star Wars either. They manged to royally fuck up the UK release of The Avengers on blu-ray by attempting to deny it was censored and releasing it without any extras that I returned mine to amazon and purchased the US disc instead.

I hope I'm wrong, but I've got a bad feeling about this.

Your brain just makes s**t up!

A fate worse than death? Having your head digitally replaced with that of Hayden Christensen!

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A new Star Wars movie with Harrison Ford would excite the general public.  He's generally regarded as the favorite.

I wish that I could just wish my feelings away...but I can't.  Wishful wishing can only lead to wishes wished for in futile wishfulness, which is not what I wish to wish for. 

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Disney makes movies based on rides, people. Episodes 7-9 could just be live action adaptations of Star Tours.

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Well, one thing I do know- if this new Star Wars trilogy sucks, I will appreciate the prequels much more, and will finally accept Ep. 1-6 as the "true story."

I wish that I could just wish my feelings away...but I can't.  Wishful wishing can only lead to wishes wished for in futile wishfulness, which is not what I wish to wish for. 

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And what if disney decides to make episodes 10-12? Thirty years down the road you may end appreciating Ep.1-9 as the true story. Just when you think it can't get worse, it does a hundredfold. 

Reminds me of a line from Weird Al's Yoda:

"The long term contract I had to sign means I will be making these movies till the end of time..."

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adywan said:

At first i was quite excited that there now may be a chance we could see a restored version of the OUT, but then realised that Disney owning the rights to the Star Wars franchise will probably spell the end of anything fan created as their lawyers will be ready to pounce

 Exactly, that was my first thought. There's an article on arstechnica about this very fear. Hope you're almost done with ESB:revisited, Ady! The mouse is watching us now.