Disney Buys Lucasfilm (and other stories)

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  • edited November 2012
    People keep forgetting that Leia will never ever be a Disney Princess, if only for the fact that:

    1) She's a horrible role model;
    2) The reason she will never be adopted in the Disney Princess line is the same as to why Giselle will never be a Disney Princess;
    3) She wasn't made with "Disney Princess" in mind anyway.
  • edited November 2012
    Yeah, for some bizarre reason, I can't picture Leia in a big poofy dress and being plastered all over kids pencil cases.
  • edited November 2012
    GaryCXJk wrote: »
    2) The reason she will never be adopted in the Disney Princess line is the same as to why Giselle will never be a Disney Princess

    Oh, well, if you're going to bring common sense into it... :D
  • edited November 2012
    GaryCXJk wrote: »
    People keep forgetting that Leia will never ever be a Disney Princess, if only for the fact that:

    1) She's a horrible role model;
    2) The reason she will never be adopted in the Disney Princess line is the same as to why Giselle will never be a Disney Princess;
    3) She wasn't made with "Disney Princess" in mind anyway.

    As I recall...none of Jabba's harem was on the sail barge when it blew up, but that was a good point about her just up and going to Tatooine to save Han.

    I will say this. Some of the potential downsides to this deal, such as Disney interfering too much with Star Wars, are almost guaranteed to be non-issues. Look at Marvel, the comics have been running with no interference at all.
  • edited November 2012
    Spielberg, Zack Snyder, and Tarantino all turned down directing the new trilogy. Well, they weren't asked by Disney, but by interviewers, and they all said they'd rather not.
  • edited November 2012
    Good on Spielberg. He's too big a friend of Lucas to bring anything new to the franchise, so it'd just be like Lucas directing again. As for Snyder, unless he proves me wrong with Man of Steel, his style is way too wrong for the Star Wars universe. And the farther away from my Star Wars Tarantino is, the happier I'll be.
  • edited November 2012
    I doubt there's a director alive that you'd be happy with, and if there is, I wouldn't like the choice.
  • edited November 2012
    I doubt there's a director alive that you'd be happy with, and if there is, I wouldn't like the choice.

    Jon Favreau, J.J. Abrams, Joss Whedon. Sadly, Joss will be far too busy with Avengers 2, and J.J. basically said that he's excited, but more to see it than make it. Favreau seemed open to it though.
  • edited November 2012
    I'd like to see M. Night Shyamalan, Michael Bay or Uwe Boll do it.
  • edited November 2012
    GaryCXJk wrote: »
    I'd like to see M. Night Shyamalan, Michael Bay or Uwe Boll do it.

    Shyamalan= Han Solo turns out to be Luke Skywalker's real sister.
    Bay= Explosions every five seconds, and Luke Skywalker is a giant robot. And Lando dies in the middle of the opening crawl.
    Boll= The first actual bomb in the Star Wars saga.
  • edited November 2012
    Oscar-winning writer Michael Arndt, who penned Toy Story 3 and Little Miss Sunshine will write the screenplay for Star Wars: Episode VII.

    http://www.starwars.com/news/michael-arndt-to-write-screenplay-for-star-wars-episode-vii.html
  • edited November 2012
    GaryCXJk wrote: »
    I'd like to see M. Night Shyamalan, Michael Bay or Uwe Boll do it.

    God no. Just... No. Bay is an idiot.

    then again, I'm not that excited for another 3 star wars movies. I just feel like Lucas kind of ruined it with the last three. Even though I liked them... It just wasn't the same. Maybe someone will pull it out of the hat.

    I just don't see how they will cast them or where they will pull material from to make a new cast, or.. any of it.
  • edited November 2012
    GaryCXJk wrote: »
    I'd like to see M. Night Shyamalan

    Well he does have experience ruining childhood memories thanks to The Last Airbender...
  • edited November 2012
    I read the news about this... Does this mean the fall of LucasArts? I could compare this event to the Fall of Constantinople...
  • edited November 2012
    pheeph wrote: »
    I read the news about this... Does this mean the fall of LucasArts? I could compare this event to the Fall of Constantinople...

    Oh great, you got this song stuck in my head.
  • edited November 2012
    pheeph wrote: »
    I read the news about this... Does this mean the fall of LucasArts? I could compare this event to the Fall of Constantinople...

    That depends on your perspective. Most think LucasArts fell back when they stopped making games that weren't Star Wars/Indiana Jones.

    I personally think LucasArts fell after cancelling Battlefront 3 and firing pretty much everyone that was involved with The Force Unleashed and its sequel. They have consistently been ignoring the game franchises that have made them the most money. Battlefront, The Force Unleashed, Rogue Squadron.
  • edited November 2012
    Jon Favreau, J.J. Abrams, Joss Whedon. Sadly, Joss will be far too busy with Avengers 2, and J.J. basically said that he's excited, but more to see it than make it. Favreau seemed open to it though.

    Oh fez,I hate every single suggestion you made. Jon Favreau isn't actually an interesting director. Cowboys and Aliens was friggin horrible. J J Abrams is typical and Whedon would make it feel like a TV plot. Well, Whedon is the most competent choice, and Abrams isn't bad, but he'd be too predictable. I want something special.I want a director I can't immediately tell what they'd do. I only liked Spielberg because I feel he deserves the chance if he wanted it. My personal pick now is Duncan Jones. I don't know what he would do, but I have compete faith in him.
  • edited November 2012
    Whedon would probably do a pretty good job, but we've already seen his take on Star Wars. It was called Firefly.
  • edited November 2012
    As ya said Fawful, Abrams would do very well(look at what he did for Trek), but also would be very predictable. And I think he's pretty much taken himself off the table. I guess muckin about with one enormous sci-fi universe is enough for him.

    And Whedon would be good, but he'll also be way too busy to take on Star Wars. As much as I love Whedon and would love to see how he'd reinvigorate Star Wars, I'd rather see The Avengers 2.
  • edited November 2012
    Some more Disney/Star Wars mashups, including the opening sequence of the "Silly Symphonies" version from the 1920s..

    http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2012/11/08/the-line-it-is-drawn-114-disney-welcomes-star-wars-to-the-family/
  • edited November 2012
    Jokieman wrote: »
    God no. Just... No. Bay is an idiot.

    then again, I'm not that excited for another 3 star wars movies. I just feel like Lucas kind of ruined it with the last three. Even though I liked them... It just wasn't the same. Maybe someone will pull it out of the hat.

    I just don't see how they will cast them or where they will pull material from to make a new cast, or.. any of it.

    I love it when a post with "Uwe Boll" in it is taken seriously.
  • edited November 2012
    Abrams said no when interviewed. It's too scary a task to him, as a fan, which was also Snyder's reason. Star Trek was something he tackled as a non-fan so it carried no fear. Favreau said maybe, but I think he's only interested in 7 by itself.
  • edited November 2012
    GaryCXJk wrote: »
    I love it when a post with "Uwe Boll" in it is taken seriously.

    I think it's funnier that of all three of those directors, Bay was the one to get the "Oh god no". Yes, Bay's movies are mindless special-effects movies that happen to have a semblance of a plot behind them(Except Transformers 2 where it had a 1st draft of a story), but considering the original Transformers was never anything more complex than giant robots beating the bolts out of each other, I still maintain he did good. Were they good movies? No, not by any means. The stories started out really good and progressed downwards, while the robot fighting actions scenes started out slow and progressed up. But considering that robots beating each other up should have been the SOLE expectation for those movies, I think everyone gives him far too much crap. But I still enjoy them. They are entertainment. Plus, I still like Armageddon and The Rock. Does any of this mean I'd want Bay in the director's chair for Star Wars 7? No. We already have a trilogy of mindless special-effect films that try to have a semblance of a plot. We don't need another one.
  • edited November 2012
    Basically what you mean is that the other two are total shite while Bay is just, meh shite.
  • edited November 2012
    GaryCXJk wrote: »
    Basically what you mean is that the other two are total shite while Bay is just, meh shite.

    On the nose. Though I think most would say Uwe Boll is worse than just "total shite".
  • edited November 2012
    Joe Johnston should get the job.
  • edited November 2012
    No. Tommy Wiseau.
  • edited November 2012
    No. Tommy Wiseau.

    Oh hai Luke.
  • edited November 2012
    I did not shoot first. I did naaahhht.
  • edited November 2012
    The Empire use me and I am the fool!
  • edited November 2012
    You're tearing me apart Palpatine!



    ....that actually sounds like Lucas dialogue....
  • edited November 2012
    Oh god, what have I started?
  • edited November 2012
    You're tearing me apart Palpatine!



    ....that actually sounds like Lucas dialogue....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXA21RL9-IY

    this is close
  • edited November 2012
    You're tearing me apart Palpatine!



    ....that actually sounds like Lucas dialogue....

    Actually, on second thought, the line would be: "You're tearing me apart, Chewy! No seriously, put my arm back where you found it!"

    It would take place after a game of space chess.
  • edited November 2012
    I am so tempted to sit down and rewrite an entire scene from The Room using Star Wars characters.
  • edited November 2012
    Ugh, the internet did NOT need another excuse to go into a circle-jerk sploogefest over how amazing Toy Story 3 apparently was.
    "You're tearing me apart, Chewy!"
    I'm sorry, but "Leia" is always going to be a better stand-in for "Lisa".
  • edited November 2012
    Ugh, the internet did NOT need another excuse to go into a circle-jerk sploogefest over how amazing Toy Story 3 apparently was.

    Robot.
  • edited November 2012
    I'm sorry, but "Leia" is always going to be a better stand-in for "Lisa".
    I can totally see Luke saying that.

    Luke: How dare you talk to me like that!
    [pushes Leia back on the couch]
    Luke: You should tell me everything!
    Leia: I can't talk right now.
    Luke: [sits next to Leia] Why, Leia? Why, Leia? Please talk to me, please! You are part of my life! You are everything! I could not go on without you, Liea.
    Leia: You're scaring me.
    [Leia gets up, but Luke also gets up]
    Luke: You're lying! I never hit you! You are tearing me apart, Leia!
    Leia: Why are you so hysterical?
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