The Big Picture: That's No Moon

[MovieBob]

That's No Moon

With Disney acquiring Lucasfilm what could the consequences be?

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[Tireseas_v1legacy]

Me-thinks Bob's giving this [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/120586-Disney-Hands-Star-Wars-Episode-VII-to-the-Writer-of-Toy-Story-3] two thumbs up...

 

[MatParker116]

Matthew Vaughn and Colin Trevorrow and the two names that as doing the most rounds for the directors chair.

 

[Ashoten]

Yeah the prospect of any new Star Wars freed from the stigma of the prequals sounds good to me. Although I though for sure you would mention how just weeks before you wrote on article on the escapist about how the SW films will never be remade but wouldn't it be neat if they could be. Anyway this also means we will get new Star Tours or possibly an entire revamp of the future Land as SW land. That is worth being excited about.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Guess what I own already?

I don't need your Blu Rays as long as these still work.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I'm honestly "meh" about the whole prospect. Then again I don't think it's possible for me to get excited about any new developments in any properties that I've enjoyed anymore. In fact, I tend to approach any such new developments with much more apprehension than excitement.

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

The Star Wars EU was usually fun, but the plots got so convoluted over time. I used to read all the Star Wars novels but when they started trying to fill every moment of post-Death Star era with some crazy adventure it got silly. Silly beyond usual Star Wars silly.

I've heard good things about stuff that came out after I stopped reading, but I never went back to find out for myself. And I honestly don't mind if they throw all that stuff out the window. I never thought of the books as canon. Just fun diversions.

 

[Scarim Coral]

The whole secret things can't stay as secret for long, really? If that's the case wouldn't we have leak info on Half Life Episode 3 by now (I'm pretty sure Valve employees are tight lip about that game).

Anyway, the only time I would start to doubt or be against the whole thing is once we actually seen development of the upcoming film.

 

[Aiddon_v1legacy]

If I remember right the script writer will be the guy who wrote Little Miss Sunshine and Toy Story 3

 

[Safaia]

The whole secret things can't stay as secret for long, really? If that's the case wouldn't we have leak info on Half Life Episode 3 by now (I'm pretty sure Valve employees are tight lip about that game).

Half Life 3 is a lie. Just like the cake.

On topic though this was pretty surprising and kind of cool I think. It'll be a while until we see anything like a trailer and we'll see how excited I am with that but until then I'm going to keep an eye on it and see how it plays out for good or for ill.

 

[cyvaris]

Disney internal security is horrifying. They have MIB who just pop up out of no where in the parks and escort you out if you are causing trouble. This escort also takes you UNDER the park. Its creepy.


At least according to one of my Professors who likes to tell the story about the time he went to "Disney Prison".

 

[Falseprophet]

Interesting stuff, Bob. Your LucasFilm as Rebel base analogy kind of parallels Kevin Smith's revelation in his latest book Tough Shit--though obviously the cultural importance is several orders of magnitude higher. Smith went through most of his career buying into Harvey Weinstein's doctrine that Miramax were the punk rock hordes smashing down the walls of Old Hollywood, then he claims he realized Weinstein had basically sold out while the big studio guys were actually a lot cooler and "with it" than he ever imagined.

 

[Jman1236]

I honestly thought you would going to do a Wii retrospective special with the Wii U now t-minus 5 days from launch(in North America). But yeah I have mixed feeling about this, all I can hope is that they don't screw this up, but it appears that I not alone in this since Trey Parker and Matt Stone are with me if last week's season finale of south park is anything to go by.

If something is big enough that it gets mentioned and/or parodied in south park, you have it made. In the WoW themed episode Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny grind up their wow characters to battle an uber player killer threatening to destroy the game, and Cartman freezes himself to wait the last 3 weeks till the wii's launch only to wind up 500 years in the future; that is comedy gold.

 

[Vault Citizen]

after thinking about it I think that I'm excited to see more Star Wars movies for the same reasons Bob brought up during the video (like how well the Avengers turned out) and I too am looking forward to seeing a new release of the theater versions of the original trilogy.

 

[templar1138a]

Thanks, Bob. This was a shot in the arm and a hand-holding at the same time. I was worried that Disney will ignore the expanded universe, but the only portion of post-Episode 6 that I care about is the stuff by Timothy Zahn. I was fine with the disregarding of the expanded universe that came out of Episode 2 because Kevin J. Anderson is a terrible author. At least now I can calmly go to see Episode 7 knowing what to expect, and I may be pleasantly surprised.

Also, I am looking forward to seeing a new Star Wars movie because hopefully it'll be the first one with decent dialogue.

 

[gardian06]

Heh I thought there would be more Venom, and rage then the dignified acceptance.

OT: speaking to how Disney is now. I would think that it is more or less at least a protection of the originals then anything, but hoping, and pinning for those Blu-rays is just the same as yelling out "Lucus Should burn in Hell for destroying my STAR WARS"

 

[daxterx2005]

So you think they'll stop at three movies?
Or you think they'll milk it further?

 

[Bayushi_Kouya]

Learned something about Lucasfilm today, I did. Other than that, Bob echoes my sentiments and speculations pretty handily.