I think Cracked had a good article about how awful all the post episode 6 stuff has been (novels and comics I guess).
I don’t know if the movies will follow all of this other stuff, if it’s even canon or not.
I’m hopeful but Disney has been spotty at best in many ways in recent years with their movies.
Well, it looks like a sequel trilogy has been vaguely in the works for a while. I imagine that the ideas that Lucas has been kicking around for a while will coalesce into something set in the early New Republic.
Of course, the Old Republic era (setting of several successful video games) could probably be mined for movies as well. The Sith of that time don’t bother with that “only two” rule, and there’s that big war with the Mandalorians that would lend itself well to the action-packing of stories.
Star Wars is doomed.
Of course they’ll be shut down.
Disney is a bunch of …I can’t say outside the Pit.
I am cautiously pessimistic.
I was just reading about this on the Beeb. Regarding Star Wars:
So we can look forward to lots of SW.
I hadn’t realized Disney was acquiring so much!
Did Disney crack down on Marvel-based fan material, after they acquired the property?
Damm, I thought that christmas special was retconned out of existence and never happened.
This is all youtubes fault
Declan
The starwars universe is probably a gold mine for them, if they are spending 4 bil on getting the franchise and are putting out three new movies, what do they expect to reap as a reward. My guess is that its in the trillions.
Declan
I wonder where this puts the planned live-action TV series. I am going to guess that this new trilogy may be based on those scripts; apparently 100 had been outlined or written or something (reports vary on the details) and they were centered around the criminal underworld - smugglers and bounty hunters and Hutts etc.
I don’t think we need two threads on this, so I merged this into the existing thread.
On the up-side, Disney is mercenary enough to realize the cash cow that the Original Original trilogy is and will finally release it on Blu-Ray. No modifications, no added effects, Han shoots first, everything.
Speaking of that, Lucas can never modify any SW movie ever again!
Or Indiana Jones.
The Rise of Darth Binky.
“Meesa think you no liking me bantha poodoo!”(cue Force Choke)
Let’s hope they don’t put it in the Disney Vault.
I’m willing to bet that down in the fine print of the purchase contract is words to the effect thta this will not happen.
Whedon is regrettably busy with the new Marvel-based ABC series and writing/directing the Avengers 2 until 2015.
Other choices? Brad Bird is a likely one. He already did write/direct Ratatouille and the Incredibles for Pixar, as well as staffed in the senior creative crew for Toy Story 3. So he’s a known quantity to work with for both Disney and Pixar, has experience in the animation industry vital to working with Industrial Light & Magic and credit with the geeks. It doesn’t hurt that he also branched out with Mission Impossible, which grossed a neat $700 million and proved that he could do live acting as well. Another hint is that his plate is clean on IMDB after he’s done with a project known as 1906 that’s in pre-production and may turn out to be vaporware.
If Lucas hasn’t destroyed all copies of sufficient quality for this to happen.
Which knowing him, he probably has.
Well, in the words of my co-worker who really hates Disney: “How much extra did they pay for a contract without all the strings Lucas wanted?”