DISNEY BUYS STAR WARS!!! EPISODE 7 IN 2015!!!

[Bigdog]

Lucas is smart for letting the franchise out of his hands. Can you imagine the kind of legal fiasco there would be if he just happened to die one day? Without the franchise being secured somewhere else?


I've been thinking about all of this since yesterday and I really have to know ... Do people actually get excited for new Star Wars stuff anymore? It's weird, because the more and more I think about the Disney/Lucasfilm news, the more I've realized that I don't really care. Is there really even anything special about Star Wars anymore?

It was one thing, back in the day, when the first Timothy Zahn book was released (basically the beginning of what would become the EU). That was HUGE. Star Wars hadn't really had any presence in years. Today ... Star Wars is just everywhere, constantly. Cartoons, books, toys, candies, underpants ... continuously by the truckload. Is there really any magic left?

We could say the same about Batman,Superman, Power Rangers,Spider-Man, Kamen Rider in Japan,Star Trek, X-Men or any franchise really.

If you like any of these series, it's only proof that your statment that the magic is gone is wrong.

The proper question would be if what makes the saga relevant to today's world. When Star Wars first came on the scene, science fiction wasn't really accepted and was in the fringes of society and only children really enjoyed openly.

Then when the prequel trilogy came about, the situation was more favorable and there was a flood of merchandise. That series failed in some aspects to maintain the quality of the original trilogy alongside any other changes, but it kept the series alive. The Clone Wars are a part of this era.

Now with 2015 on its way, Episode 7 will be something to really be interested in. Again, while the series has only had some forms of newer media, none of it exactly stuck because it wasn't on the silver or small screen.

I'm seeing the series will come back in a huge way with both a television series on ABC and a film series 2015 on.

 

[Keith Justice]

I stopped getting excited for new Star Wars stuff when EVERYTHING kept getting jam packed in the Prequel Era and we couldn't get out of it. The only hero trumpeted was The Eternal Failure Anakin like what he could do could ever make a difference and I stopped carrying because we knew he would eventually fall for 35 years now.

The last great Star Wars thing was Knights of the Old Republic because it opened soooooooo much up to us.

With the new era coming down the pipe with potential competent film makers, we've a LOT to get excited about and a whole new era of characters and action to explore.

 

[Gold Samurai]

Lucas is smart for letting the franchise out of his hands. Can you imagine the kind of legal fiasco there would be if he just happened to die one day? Without the franchise being secured somewhere else?

Only one of his adopted children is involved with the Star Wars franchise too


-Amanda Lucas is an MMA fighter

- Jett is only 19

-Katie Lucas is the only one who has been involved in the entertainment sector at all, as a writer on Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

 

[Skyknight]

MMPR, Disney had **** all to do with the initial wave of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That is down to Marvel Studios and Paramont.

Marvel's comic and tv output also happens to still suck donkey balls (with the exception of Avengers EMH), though I don't blame Disney for that either, I blame Loeb, and Quesada and their usual brand of out-of-touchness that have plauged that company for a decade now.

Do you really think Disney will mishandle the franchise more than Lucas did with the prequel movies and revisions of the originals?

The prequels are fine. Beleive it or not, so are the reversionings.

The problem is you cannot let go of your childhood, and that you are not the target audience: Kids are. And they never have a bad thing to say about those movies. Any of them. Star Wars is better appreciated when you're a young age. The only people who complain are the 40 year old virgins who feel like the saga should grow up only with them. Frankly, I'd be glad to see the back of the "angstier, grittier" expanded universe and relish another kiddy SW flick. Less pretentious and up-its-own-arse.

 

[Aoi Kurenai]

I stopped getting excited for new Star Wars stuff when EVERYTHING kept getting jam packed in the Prequel Era and we couldn't get out of it. The only hero trumpeted was The Eternal Failure Anakin like what he could do could ever make a difference and I stopped carrying because we knew he would eventually fall for 35 years now.

The last great Star Wars thing was Knights of the Old Republic because it opened soooooooo much up to us.

With the new era coming down the pipe with potential competent film makers, we've a LOT to get excited about and a whole new era of characters and action to explore.

Have you read any of the books? There are a ton of those that take place in different eras.

 

[Vitor]

Have you read any of the books? There are a ton of those that take place in different eras.

Keith REALLY does not come off as the book wormy type to me......

 

[Mr. Yellow]

If they're going to use the characters we know mostly from ANH-ROTJ, I probably wouldn't acknowledge any recasting. I don't think it will be set anything less then 30 years after Jedi, because surely they want to focus on any children of Han, Leia and Luke.

Even though it won't be an adaptation, I hope some EU names/references make their way into the movies. Names like Mara Jade, Jaina and Jacen would tickle my fancy.

 

[Painted_Outlaw]

Kids are. And they never have a bad thing to say about those movies. Any of them.

I find it a little hard to believe that you talked to every single kid out there to hear their thoughts on those movies.

 

[Aoi Kurenai]

Even though it won't be an adaptation, I hope some EU names/references make their way into the movies. Names like Mara Jade, Jaina and Jacen would tickle my fancy.

This is the only thing that bugs me about Episode VII. There's some much of the EU that's going to be rendered pointless now. Characters like Mara Jade and the Vong feel so apart of the universe now that it'll be weird if they're not even mentioned.

 

[Keith Justice]

Have you read any of the books? There are a ton of those that take place in different eras.

I read the Jedi Academy books, all five Timothy Zahn books and the first book where the Vong showed up and Chewie went down. But like I said... it was around then that I was tired of it. Me and my geek pals started getting sick of only the same few people being able to save everything. And from what I know of the Solo children, they all seem to be a pretty quick waste of new characters.