Luke and Wedge, you mean. Biggs didn’t survive.
Not to mention that Disney has a long history of releasing movies that are not necessarily aimed at aimed at kids: List of Touchstone Pictures films - Wikipedia
I can’t see as anything but a win for SW fans, as the prequels were mediocre to terrible, and his endless re-re-re-re-releases of the original trilogy were just ridiculous. I’m looking forward to a new Star Wars movie for the first time since I walked out of the theater after seeing Phantom Menace.
You forgot the Laserdiscs. A New Hope The Empire Strikes Back Return of the Jedi
Mine still play perfectly, although I’m currently down to one working LD player. :eek:
I have the original trilogy four times over on laserdisc; the original releases in P&S, the individual “faces” releases you linked to, the Definitive Collection (without the mastering error), and the special edition boxset. I also have the trilogy on CED and Beta. No VHD, amazingly. Odd thing is that I only bought one of the above on purpose (SE boxset), the rest were picked up when buying lots/collections to get other movies.
I figured it out. See Michael Bay does most of his stuff for Disney. He was pushed for the Marvel deal. But then found out that it wasn’t enough to get his dream project. No, they had to spend 4 billion dollars so that Michael Bay can finally reboot (darker and grittier) Howard the Duck.
Least I Could Do (11/5) weighs in. 
Does this mean that Leia and/or Amadala are now the newest additions to the Disney Princess™ line of products?
I expect all non-human characters will get really oval eyes with big-assed pupils.
Can’t wait for those straight-to-DVD releases. Star Wars: Ewok Adventures in Gungan is the one I’m looking forward to!
“It’s the Star Wars, after all! It’s the Star Wars, after all! It’s the Star Wars, after all, it’s the Star, Star Wars!”
Wonder if they’ll start to hold back on releasing the DVD’s/Blu-Rays, like they do with their classic cartoons. Release Fantasia one year, wait 7, re-release Fantasia, wait 7-years, etc…
Anyway… I’m not so sanguine about this development.
Looks like all of the main 3 are on board, so VII is almost certainly going to involve an old-aged Leia, Solo, and Skywalker somehow.
Too bad in 2012 Hamill looks like Palpatine and Fisher looks like Yoda.
Michael Arndt will write Ep. 7.
Michael Arndt.
Carrie Fisher actually looked pretty good this summer at the Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne. She’s regained some weight after having slimmed down a bit, but certainly not enough that I’d say she looks bad. She looks better than she has at other times in the last 20 years. And the still images don’t do her justice, she carries herself well.
56 could look better by Hollywood standards, especially considering her genes, but if she were just my friend’s 56 year old boozy mom I’d think she was pretty cute.
A friend of mine thinks that visual effects have been working their way up to having full CGI humans, with ILM employing such tricks as used in Benjamin Button, Captain America, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Tron: Legacy, or the de-aging experiment used in X-Men 3, to make Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and maybe Harrison Ford look as good as they need to be for the new Star Wars movies.
Okay, so Kathleen Kennedy and George Lucas are going to produce 7, 8 & 9 I guess. How much influence will that give them?
I wish Lucas could be kept away completely.
The problem with the Prequels was that George Lucas wrote and directed them entirely himself. He tried to get people to fill in both those roles, some of them names of particular bigness, and they all chickened out telling George he should do it himself, which I’m sure they regret now.
Lucas also approved the scripts for the Indiana Jones films. I’m not certain if this buyout includes them, anyway; I have read conflicting reports.
This time Lucas is not directing or writing, and though he has approved the storyline I don’t know if he actually came up with it himself, and his role is apparently only going to be the font of knowledge on his characters and his Universe that they will tap into (though having said that, there are people who deal exclusively with canon, as MovieMogul mentions here, so why not just use them?)
I hope he learned his lesson and lets others take over the bulk of it, without his finger persistently contaminating the New Jedi Order.
I’ve been going through some old Mad magazines and found a Return of the Jedi parody. In one panel, Lando says, “The Emperor thinks that this little band of rebels attempting to destroy his Death Star is nothing more than a ‘Mickey Mouse Operation’! Well, he’s WRONG, isn’t he, gang?!”
Sitting beside him is Mickey Mouse.
I believe this is called “Mad ESP.”
Bleah. Not many screenwriting credits.
So how soon can I go to Disney World and get a drink in the Mos Eisley Cantina, with some college kids dressed in alien uniforms playing in the band? And can I get my picture taken with the communications major in the Jar Jar Binks costume?
I can hardly wait.