I'm pretty sure Lucasfilm always owned Indy, Paramount just distributed it. The deal may just stay the same, just like how Paramount distributes the Marvel movies.
"Dear Disney: I would like to buy the IP for a game I created called Monkey Island from you. -- Ron P.S. I have no money."
That man needs a Kickstarter. "Help Ron Gilbert buy back Monkey Island!" No reward tiers or anything.
I see it getting somewhere in the region of $4 million.
That man needs a Kickstarter. "Help Ron Gilbert buy back Monkey Island!" No reward tiers or anything.
I see it getting somewhere in the region of $4 million.
I recall him saying that he would have needed $10 million just to get the negotiations going with LucasArts.
Dan Connors once said Telltale would be very interested in being acquired by Disney if they found the right situation. Well, here it is. Complete the link.
Disney's purchase of LucasFilm was motivated entirely by jealousy. Brenda Chapman leaves Pixar after being kicked off the director's chair for Brave and goes to LucasFilm. Disney re-absorbs Brenda Chapman by buying LucasFilm in the corporate equivalent of drunk-dialing your ex and saying it was just to check on something else.
>In 2012, as part of an interview with The New York Times, discussing negative fan reactions to the prequel trilogy and to alterations made to the original trilogy, Lucas said, regarding further Star Wars films: "Why would I make any more, when everybody yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?"
>In an interview published in Total Film in May 2008, Lucas also ruled out anybody else ever making the sequel trilogy (or other future Star Wars features). Asked if he was happy for new Star Wars tales to be told after he was gone, Lucas replied: "I've left pretty explicit instructions for there not to be any more features. There will definitely be no Episodes VII–IX. That's because there isn't any story. I mean, I never thought of anything. And now there have been novels about the events after Episode VI, which isn't at all what I would have done with it. The Star Wars story is really the tragedy of Darth Vader. That is the story. Once Vader dies, he doesn't come back to life, the Emperor doesn't get cloned and Luke doesn't get married..."
You never know. Maybe TTG will ask them to let them use some of the Lucasarts games like Monkey Island, Indiana Jones & maybe they might let them have S&M Freelance Police but that would be very very unlikely.
Well, we all know what's coming.....a Disney Channel show.
Probably Season 6 of Clone Wars.
Sadly, this also means no more 20th Century Fox music for these new Star Wars movies and no neat transitions from the Paramount mountain for Indiana Jones.
In a conference call this afternoon, Disney’s Bob Iger said they will be focusing on social and mobile games and will likely license their IPs for console gaming—meaning you’ll see other studios making Star Wars games (as has happened a few times already, like with BioWare’s MMORPG The Old Republic).
Make of that what you will, but it does leave me a little more hopeful for more Monkey Island et al.
I'd be surprised if they don't license the games out when asked by reliable, established studios. The deal cost them over $4,000,000,000 US dollars. Surely they won't mind getting some of that cash back through licensing deals.
Another thing I'm wondering, since it seems they're planning to use LucasArts as a development studio with the statement that they plan to make mobile and social games... I wonder if they'll keep the LucasArts staff to making Star Wars games, or if we might see some LucasArts developed Disney or Disney-Pixar projects as well.
What do you mean 'there goes Lucasfilm'? It's been gone for years.
Honestly, the big thing is "There Goes ILM". ILM and Pixar were already in trouble for collusion to, essentially, worsen the conditions for CG animators. Now that there's one less employer in the area, ILM and Pixar can treat CG animators as badly as they damn well please.
Now that there's one less employer in the area, ILM and Pixar can treat CG animators as badly as they damn well please.
More of Steve Jobs' wet dream, but STILL scary.
In Drew Struzan's "Art of" books, he describes how he was treated both by Disney and Lucasfilm. Drew is friends with George Lucas, and still his disgust at the bunch of crappy suits is visible. While doing his Indy 4 poster, he even describes this treatment as the central experience forcing him to retire. But with George buying most of Drew's art for his own home, Drew would never complain. With Disney, he doesn't describe the suits. He describes a gross disregard of his work. Like the Adventures in Babysitting poster found in the Disney archives face down in a puddle of water. Like the Indy ride posters where Drew was forced to literally call up Harrison Ford to get permission to use his likeness, as Disney refused to do it themselves.
I can't say what the worst company for the creatives is. I really can't. But Disney is huge, and there are some pretty competent people at SOME places.
Since Disney acquired the Muppets in 2004, not exactly the worst things happened to the franchise. The last movie has at least sparked some rainbow colored tears in here, if I remember correctly.
But Disney WILL ride all its franchises to death, worse than Lucas ever could. What has been good and new with Pirates of the Caribbean will be something to puke on in movie number five.
What COULD have been good and new - the wonderful looking single player RPG "Armada of the Dead" based on the PotC franchise - was cancelled in development. Is this what we're facing for LucasArse Entertainment now, great announcements exploding midway in development?
I mean, it's not like this isn't exactly what LucasArts had been doing for some time, from Full Throttle to Sam & Max.
Concerning Star Wars VII - ah, well, whatever. In one of the articles Fawful has linked to Lucas tearfully proclaims that it more or less hasn't been his franchise any more anyway, as all the novels after Episode VI weren't meant to be canon anyway. With Star Wars, we have trodden in the inescapable realm of bad fan fiction for 15 years now. If Disney makes slightly better fan fiction, congrats and everything. Thumbs up.
But if Disney really sees LucasArts as what it has been for a decade now - "the guys who let other guys do Star Wars games", we really are fucked here. Is outsourcing even something Disney would do?? Because if not, ToMI2 will remain a dream forever.
And I REALLY do not want Disney to acquire Telltale.
Oh. Please. God. No.
I REALLY do not want Disney to acquire Telltale.
Oh. Please. God. No.
While there's certainly a chance that this buy-out will prompt Disney's rivals to consolidate similarly, I'd say that Universal would be a more likely buyer for Telltale, if anybody hypothetically was going to. There'd be no point another studio making a grab for a computer games company if they'd have to surrender the best-selling licences that it's already got.
GOD DAMN IT DISNEY, STOP BUYING EVERYTHING I LOVE!
Okay, now that I'm done raging, I must say something here. I don't hate Disney or even dislike them. I just think that they've got way too much shit. Besides, now I have a reason to stop supporting 20th Century Fox.
I've talked to my bro about this, and all he could say was he hopes they won't F it up, but, considering LucasFilms already has done all it can to run the series to the ground, Disney can't do worse. In fact, if the Marvel Cinematic Universe is an indication, Disney just can't go wrong.
And I really think most are overreacting here. It's not like LucasFilms is disappearing, in fact, now with George Lucas out of the way, they probably have more freedom than ever.
Well, we all know what's coming.....a Disney Channel show.
Disney show already confirmed. Considering Disney owns Marvel and there isn't any crappy tv shows on there(unless Avengers/Ultimate Spiderman got crap reviews, but I'm pretty sure they were well recieved), I'd say we are fine in this respect.
We'll probably get more Clone Wars or possibly a new tv show all together.
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"Dear Disney: I would like to buy the IP for a game I created called Monkey Island from you. -- Ron P.S. I have no money."
I see it getting somewhere in the region of $4 million.
I recall him saying that he would have needed $10 million just to get the negotiations going with LucasArts.
Disney's purchase of LucasFilm was motivated entirely by jealousy. Brenda Chapman leaves Pixar after being kicked off the director's chair for Brave and goes to LucasFilm. Disney re-absorbs Brenda Chapman by buying LucasFilm in the corporate equivalent of drunk-dialing your ex and saying it was just to check on something else.
>In an interview published in Total Film in May 2008, Lucas also ruled out anybody else ever making the sequel trilogy (or other future Star Wars features). Asked if he was happy for new Star Wars tales to be told after he was gone, Lucas replied: "I've left pretty explicit instructions for there not to be any more features. There will definitely be no Episodes VII–IX. That's because there isn't any story. I mean, I never thought of anything. And now there have been novels about the events after Episode VI, which isn't at all what I would have done with it. The Star Wars story is really the tragedy of Darth Vader. That is the story. Once Vader dies, he doesn't come back to life, the Emperor doesn't get cloned and Luke doesn't get married..."
What a friggin liar.
Oh god!
EDIT:Just a thought. Disney realized that they couldn't actually scare us on halloween, so they did this.
NOOOOOOO! Why did you have to say that? That's almost as bad as saying "Nothing can possibly go wrong" or "There's no turning back now"!
Now they're guaranteed to suck. Thanks a lot, coolsome.
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The cartoons aren't that bad though. Gravity Falls is shockingly brilliant at times.
They already did that sort of story, it's called episode 2.
He's secretly a member of the famous Tattooine band, the Tahashi Station Power Converters.
You're a bad man.
Or dashed completely. No one quite knows what Disney is going to do with those IPs yet.
I'm going to try to stay optimistic that they hopefully won't treat them any worse than LucasArts did.
Probably Season 6 of Clone Wars.
Sadly, this also means no more 20th Century Fox music for these new Star Wars movies and no neat transitions from the Paramount mountain for Indiana Jones.
Fortunately, Disney/Marvel's big rivals have already had a television show like that.
But I think everybody's missing the BIG picture.....
THE STARS OF STAR WARS CAN RETURN TO THE MUPPET SHOW!!!!!
Another thing I'm wondering, since it seems they're planning to use LucasArts as a development studio with the statement that they plan to make mobile and social games... I wonder if they'll keep the LucasArts staff to making Star Wars games, or if we might see some LucasArts developed Disney or Disney-Pixar projects as well.
What do you mean 'there goes Lucasfilm'? It's been gone for years.
Not this guy!
More of Steve Jobs' wet dream, but STILL scary.
In Drew Struzan's "Art of" books, he describes how he was treated both by Disney and Lucasfilm. Drew is friends with George Lucas, and still his disgust at the bunch of crappy suits is visible. While doing his Indy 4 poster, he even describes this treatment as the central experience forcing him to retire. But with George buying most of Drew's art for his own home, Drew would never complain. With Disney, he doesn't describe the suits. He describes a gross disregard of his work. Like the Adventures in Babysitting poster found in the Disney archives face down in a puddle of water. Like the Indy ride posters where Drew was forced to literally call up Harrison Ford to get permission to use his likeness, as Disney refused to do it themselves.
I can't say what the worst company for the creatives is. I really can't. But Disney is huge, and there are some pretty competent people at SOME places.
Since Disney acquired the Muppets in 2004, not exactly the worst things happened to the franchise. The last movie has at least sparked some rainbow colored tears in here, if I remember correctly.
But Disney WILL ride all its franchises to death, worse than Lucas ever could. What has been good and new with Pirates of the Caribbean will be something to puke on in movie number five.
What COULD have been good and new - the wonderful looking single player RPG "Armada of the Dead" based on the PotC franchise - was cancelled in development. Is this what we're facing for LucasArse Entertainment now, great announcements exploding midway in development?
I mean, it's not like this isn't exactly what LucasArts had been doing for some time, from Full Throttle to Sam & Max.
Concerning Star Wars VII - ah, well, whatever. In one of the articles Fawful has linked to Lucas tearfully proclaims that it more or less hasn't been his franchise any more anyway, as all the novels after Episode VI weren't meant to be canon anyway. With Star Wars, we have trodden in the inescapable realm of bad fan fiction for 15 years now. If Disney makes slightly better fan fiction, congrats and everything. Thumbs up.
But if Disney really sees LucasArts as what it has been for a decade now - "the guys who let other guys do Star Wars games", we really are fucked here. Is outsourcing even something Disney would do?? Because if not, ToMI2 will remain a dream forever.
And I REALLY do not want Disney to acquire Telltale.
Oh. Please. God. No.
While there's certainly a chance that this buy-out will prompt Disney's rivals to consolidate similarly, I'd say that Universal would be a more likely buyer for Telltale, if anybody hypothetically was going to. There'd be no point another studio making a grab for a computer games company if they'd have to surrender the best-selling licences that it's already got.
Okay, now that I'm done raging, I must say something here. I don't hate Disney or even dislike them. I just think that they've got way too much shit. Besides, now I have a reason to stop supporting 20th Century Fox.
And I really think most are overreacting here. It's not like LucasFilms is disappearing, in fact, now with George Lucas out of the way, they probably have more freedom than ever.
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Disney show already confirmed. Considering Disney owns Marvel and there isn't any crappy tv shows on there(unless Avengers/Ultimate Spiderman got crap reviews, but I'm pretty sure they were well recieved), I'd say we are fine in this respect.
We'll probably get more Clone Wars or possibly a new tv show all together.