# Is anyone else scared how Disney is going apeshit with planned Star Wars spinoffs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-scared-how-disney-is-going-apeshit-with-planned-star-wars-spinoffs/651278 "2013-02-24T19:07:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-scared-how-disney-is-going-apeshit-with-planned-star-wars-spinoffs/651278/61 "2013-02-25T20:10:45Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > There is absolutely zero chance that the worst spinoff they come up with will be as bad as the prequels George Lucas put out. The franchise has nowhere to go but up, the fact that they got the director of the Avengers for episode 7 is already a vast improvement. > [@Alessan](#): > > The way I see it, there is now a non-zero probability of a good Star Wars movie or TV show. That probability did not exist six months ago. > > Seems like a good thing. I agree with them. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-scared-how-disney-is-going-apeshit-with-planned-star-wars-spinoffs/651278/62 "2013-02-25T21:05:52Z")
I would actually rather see ancillary movies set in the Star Wars universe more than some official Episodes 7, 8 and 9 but as long as the the movies are good, I am fine with all of it. One thing I keep asking for that I know I probably won’t ever get is if the three Intro movies to the Old Republic MMO get expanded into a full length film. I can’t link to them at the moment but I am sure they are YouTube and worth checking out if you never saw them. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-scared-how-disney-is-going-apeshit-with-planned-star-wars-spinoffs/651278/63 "2013-02-25T21:28:22Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Disney might go for big names over suitability. Yeah, they might cast Samuel L. Jackson as a Jedi Master or something. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-scared-how-disney-is-going-apeshit-with-planned-star-wars-spinoffs/651278/64 "2013-02-25T21:58:46Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I would actually rather see ancillary movies set in the Star Wars universe more than some official Episodes 7, 8 and 9 but as long as the the movies are good, I am fine with all of it. > > One thing I keep asking for that I know I probably won’t ever get is if the three Intro movies to the Old Republic MMO get expanded into a full length film. I can’t link to them at the moment but I am sure they are YouTube and worth checking out if you never saw them. [Return](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm4JEZudf0c), [Deceived](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODk4giJpiYM), and [Hope.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ToztqqDcaY) If the Disney movies are half as good as those clips, then they’ll be ten times as good as the prequels. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-scared-how-disney-is-going-apeshit-with-planned-star-wars-spinoffs/651278/65 "2013-02-25T22:18:20Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > I think the key word here is “rumors”. So far as I know, nothing has officially been announced yet, or even decided – other than JJ Abrams being attached to a film of some sort. Even if some of the rumours actually have some basis in fact, all it means at this stage is that someone (who?) has suggested it, and that it may be under consideration (by whom?). There have been four confirmed movies by Disney executives: Episode VII Episode VIII Episode IX At least one spinoff movie. The subject has not been announced. Obviously, any of this could fall apart at any moment, but I think Episode 7-9 are pretty surely going to happen. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-scared-how-disney-is-going-apeshit-with-planned-star-wars-spinoffs/651278/66 "2013-02-25T22:28:34Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > [Return](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm4JEZudf0c), [Deceived](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODk4giJpiYM), and [Hope.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ToztqqDcaY) > > If the Disney movies are half as good as those clips, then they’ll be ten times as good as the prequels. Why do those trailers warn of sexual content? I was sorely disappointed when I didn’t see any. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-scared-how-disney-is-going-apeshit-with-planned-star-wars-spinoffs/651278/67 "2013-02-25T22:29:21Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > …I have a long-standing, frequently irrational distaste for Disney… Huh. I thought it was just me. Anyway, my distaste is apparently either less irrational or weaker, as in cases like this I look at the property rather than the production company. And I’m with pretty much everyone else in this thread–looking forward to at least the metaphysical possibility of a Star Wars movie that doesn’t suck. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-scared-how-disney-is-going-apeshit-with-planned-star-wars-spinoffs/651278/68 "2013-02-25T22:29:58Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Why do those trailers warn of sexual content? I was sorely disappointed when I didn’t see any. I believe that’s the rating for the game, not the trailer. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-scared-how-disney-is-going-apeshit-with-planned-star-wars-spinoffs/651278/69 "2013-02-25T22:38:17Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I believe that’s the rating for the game, not the trailer. That’s odd. I thought pre-trailer content warnings were for trailers. Or is that only for the movies. Anyway, I’m surprised that a Star Wars game would have any sexual content either. What kind of sexuality is there in the game? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-scared-how-disney-is-going-apeshit-with-planned-star-wars-spinoffs/651278/70 "2013-02-25T23:07:03Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > That’s odd. I thought pre-trailer content warnings were for trailers. Or is that only for the movies. Movie trailers have both a content warning for the trailer itself (“This trailer has been approved for all audiences…” etc. etc.) and the rating of the movie itself. [Viz.](http://edwardk9212.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-a2-project-evaluation.html) Commercials for video games (and, for that matter, television commercials for movies) usually just give the game rating, and not a rating for the commercial itself. > [@](#): > > Anyway, I’m surprised that a Star Wars game would have any sexual content either. What kind of sexuality is there in the game? [This, mostly.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Slave_Leia_Shoot,_Celebration_V.jpg) Although it’s also possible for your character to enter a romantic relationship with a variety of different NPCs, depending on your class. Same-sex relationships, too. Nothing, so far as I’m aware, more racy than what you saw between Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher in the movies, except maybe for an explicit confirmation of off-screen sex. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-scared-how-disney-is-going-apeshit-with-planned-star-wars-spinoffs/651278/71 "2013-02-26T02:12:15Z")
> [@RealCamz](#): > > I quote Yoda to girls sometimes. > They never appear as impressed as I think they should be. [Yoda] Seeing you alive brings warm feeling to my heart. [/Yoda] ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-scared-how-disney-is-going-apeshit-with-planned-star-wars-spinoffs/651278/72 "2013-02-26T05:41:08Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > [This, mostly.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Slave_Leia_Shoot,_Celebration_V.jpg) I remember having that dream! ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-scared-how-disney-is-going-apeshit-with-planned-star-wars-spinoffs/651278/73 "2013-02-26T05:41:34Z")
> [@Kozmik](#): > > [Yoda] Seeing you alive brings warm feeling to my heart. [/Yoda] Wouldn’t it be “Seeing you alive, warm feeling to my heart it brings” ? I don’t speak Yoda well though. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_In_Black)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-scared-how-disney-is-going-apeshit-with-planned-star-wars-spinoffs/651278/74 "2013-02-26T17:12:05Z")
> [@tellyworth](#): > > A thousand times this. Tell me again how Disney is going to [ruin Star Wars](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg_FoEy8T_A). Holy Shit. What the Hell were they thinking when they made that? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-scared-how-disney-is-going-apeshit-with-planned-star-wars-spinoffs/651278/75 "2013-02-26T19:12:17Z")
They were thinking “I’m Han Solo …” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Lurker\_Above](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Lurker\_Above](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lurker_Above)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-scared-how-disney-is-going-apeshit-with-planned-star-wars-spinoffs/651278/76 "2013-02-26T19:36:01Z")
> [@The\_Man\_In\_Black](#): > > Holy Shit. What the Hell were they thinking when they made that? ‘We _could_ spend time and money to create (more) cool lightsaber battles, but we’ll probably sell just as many boxes with a Star Warsified Generic-Dance-Game#99. Plus we can spend the money saved on lots of blow’ ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-scared-how-disney-is-going-apeshit-with-planned-star-wars-spinoffs/651278/77 "2013-02-26T21:27:08Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Totally agree. What happens happens. > > That said, seeing Han and Luke wind up in a chilly prison together might be nice, and call it ‘Cool Han Luke’. “If my baby say he can eat fifty Beggar’s Canyon Wombat eggs, then that’s how many he can eat!” I’d lift the Disney boycott for this. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-scared-how-disney-is-going-apeshit-with-planned-star-wars-spinoffs/651278/78 "2013-02-27T01:16:40Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > I see your Chris Evans and raise you Natalie Portman, Gwyenth Paltrow, Sam Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Cobie Smulders, Jeremy Renner, Hugo Weaving… > > While some were good (Jackson and Paltrow) other were quite poor choices. > > Either way, Lucas had an admitted knack for casting good actors, Ford, Peter Cushing, Ian MacDiarmid, James Earl Jones, Portman, Knightley, McGregor, Joel Edgerton, Rose Byrne,few of them were stars or even well known at the time of casting. EVen Hayden Christensen was/is not as bad as he is accused of being. > His “star” casting of Alec Guiness, Liam Nesson and Sam Jackson were good too. Hell he avoids casting people based on star power, he resisted the calls to cast Leonardo DiCaprio as Anakin for _Attack of the Clones_…which admittedly in retrospect would have been awesome, but at the time woiuld have been seen as a mistake. You cannot take credit for casting good actors if you use them badly. Samuel L. Jackson is best when he’s filled with rage and brio. So what does George do? Brings out his most constipated and humorless performance. Hayden Christensen can be very good as an unctious and snivelly toadie. The last thing he should be used for is a charismatic, romantic lead. Natalie Portman was far too young for her part. For someone so naturally at ease in front of the camera, Jimmy Smits has never looked more uncomfortable. Rose Byrne and Keira Knightley? Please! You might as well add Sofia Coppola to that list, so interchangeable and undistinguished were their parts. Terence Stamp? Wasted. Ian McDiarmid? Hambone. McGregor? Not bad, but his greatest strength is his effortless charm, only a fraction of which is allowed to show. And the less said about the child actors of Ani & Boba, the better. Lucas operates on a single, knuckle-headed paradigm: Any good actor should be able to do anything he wants equally well. As if they’re interchangeable parts. And this is a big reason why the prequels are so terrible: because the writing is bad, but the casting is hapless, making every scene, character arc, and dialogue exchange that much more painful. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-scared-how-disney-is-going-apeshit-with-planned-star-wars-spinoffs/651278.md?page=3)