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 Medium of Death wrote:
I'd prefer an entirely new re-boot of the franchise. So much potential wasted.

The only movie i'd be upset with being remade is Empire, and even then I could get over it.

They dont need to remake anything. Star Wars is a massive, massive universe. They can simply pick another time period and make a whole new story and give it its own style.

I really don't see why people are anything other than cautiously optimistic. Sure, there's potential for a huge screwup - but under Lucas, the potential for further films was exactly squat. This gives new film makers a chance to make a mark on the universe, with the massive financial backing of Disney. They know the audience is there for more proper Star Wars movies, they're not going to ruin that chance with cross overs they know will only fail.They just bought a license to print money, so you can bet they know how to do it well. And you can bet that they know doing it well isn't putting Jack Sparrow with a light saber in the movie.

 Medium of Death wrote:
Hamill could easily be the Yoda of the new trilogy if they want him to be.

Now that would be awesome. Give him a beard, get rid of his hand and have him live on dagaboh. After what I have heard from Mark as the joker, I bet he would make a nice quirky jedi living in a swamp.

As a current Disney cast member I think its a good move, They could bring a whole new light to the series that no one else has done and for all the people crying keep in mind disney owns marvel ya know that company that made The Avengers

 Lord Scythican wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:
Hamill could easily be the Yoda of the new trilogy if they want him to be.

Now that would be awesome. Give him a beard, get rid of his hand and have him live on dagaboh. After what I have heard from Mark as the joker, I bet he would make a nice quirky jedi living in a swamp.

OR they could bring back Ford as an old smuggler showing a new kid the ropes. Jedi? Bah, more smuggling and Twi'lek slave girls.

 Ahtman wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
They can't bring Hamill back if they wanted to, it's why you don't see him in acting but you do see him in voice acting, his face got slagged some time after ROTJ, car accident I think.

The accident was between Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back.

Edit: According to Wiki, it was on the day before the final shooting of Star Wars. They had to use a double for the shots.

Yeah, it was supposedly the reason for the Wampa attack scene at the start of Empire... they had to explain the face.

 d-usa wrote:
Stuff like Bobba Fett getting his own origin movie could be something positive.

You are just awful. Simply awful.


I'll admit I was a bit hesitant to see this buyout. Then I was reminded that Disney now owned Marvel and thus were responsible for Avengers, and suddenly I was a lot less hesitant. Most of Lucas Films and ILM and stuff is staying as is. Lucas's co-pres. of LucasFilms is becoming the sole head, answering directly to Disney. Hopefully with Lucas out of the directing chair, the next movies will fair better than the prequel trilogy.

First thing they do before a movie...Star Wars theme section in the park.....whats bad....I would go and see it

Hopefully, they decide to do "Legacy" era.

No Luke, no Leia, no New Republic, etc.

Just a whole new Galactic Empire for a band of plucky Rebels to bring down.

 Medium of Death wrote:
Hamill could easily be the Yoda of the new trilogy if they want him to be.

I went straight to "Hollow him out and shove someones hand up his ass" with that.

I think we need a good solid story set in an era they haven't touched yet. No connections, character wise with anything else they have going on. A fresh start - Great Hyperspace War, maybe?

 Jihadin wrote:
First thing they do before a movie...Star Wars theme section in the park.....whats bad....I would go and see it

They do at Disney World in Florida...

My kidz got to dress up as Padawans and dueled live actors of Darth Maul and Darth Vader...

Absolute. Nergasm. Overload.

 -Loki- wrote:
I really don't see why people are anything other than cautiously optimistic.

Because of the stated release schedule of the first new film coming in 2013 and new ones every 2-3 years after that. That looks alarmingly like the movies are going to be a rush job to cash in on the fan base as fast as possible, on top of the extremely high potential for everyone to just get tired of Star Wars after seeing movie after movie after movie. The universe has a lot of potential, and Disney's plan looks like it's going to use it all up as quickly as possible in the name of short-term profits.

 Peregrine wrote:

 -Loki- wrote:
I really don't see why people are anything other than cautiously optimistic.

Because of the stated release schedule of the first new film coming in 2013 and new ones every 2-3 years after that. That looks alarmingly like the movies are going to be a rush job to cash in on the fan base as fast as possible, on top of the extremely high potential for everyone to just get tired of Star Wars after seeing movie after movie after movie. The universe has a lot of potential, and Disney's plan looks like it's going to use it all up as quickly as possible in the name of short-term profits.

Unless I misread that... the first one is in 2015... so, that's plenty of time to develop a good movie.

Yeah, I'm confidant after the latest batch of Marvel films that they can make a decent movie.

Its interesting that with Disney's attempt to make a new Sci-fi epic in John Carter failing, it might have spurned on this action.

In my mind I'm happy to see where they go with it, and it cannot really be much worse than George's meddling with the films in recent years. Instead of doing what fans have been talking about for years, which was the fabled follow on trilogy.

My hopes for the new trilogy.

CGI faces for the original actors on stand ins (Tron legacy already proved the tech is almost there on seamless level.)

Have a adult Asoka turn up as another Jedi survivor, that has stayed hidden during the rebellion.

More Wedge, and allow the Boba crawled out story to stand for the new films.

Thrawn as the main villain.

I'm pretty sure Asoka is dead. Quite dead.

No one knows yet as far as I'm aware, and if Disney take over, who knows where they'd go. However a female jedi who has proven a popular character in the series might be too good to miss.

Of course I'll not overly mind either way, but I'd like to see it, mainly as Shaak Ti is one of my fave Jedi, and I'd really like to see Ahsoka fully grown in a similar vein.

I think they'd be better served by a whole new timeframe/setting.

If its Ewoks.......

I expect it to be exactly what I want it to be. My only real worry is length, given how damn long the Pirate of the Caribean films are.

It's only a matter of time before the fans get sick. Disney have essentially said they'll keep churning out Star Wars films until they stop selling.

 Bromsy wrote:
I think they'd be better served by a whole new timeframe/setting.

Old Republic could be fun, plenty of material to exploit, plenty of sith to fight, etc.

I'm still supporting Wedge Antilles and Rogue Squadron, no to minimal Jedi, a solid group dynamic of fighter jockies in snub fighters taking on the evil empire and kicking serious gak. Give Joss Whedon the reigns (no one handles a group dynamic like Joss, everything he has EVER done proves this), bring in Stackpole and Allison on the writing and I will literally fly out to Disney HQ and grovel at the feet of disney execs.

That's just a fanboy's hopes and dreams though, I have a higher chance of winning the lottery daily for the next three weeks then that happening

Disney hatched on to a new business plan a few years ago. They realised there's basically stuff all money in movies - you get some big hits and some big misses, and pretty much end up where you started. The real money is in merchandise, and if you focus on building really big franchises and nothing else then even if the box office doesn't justify the cost of making the movie and the huge cost of hyping the movie, then the merchandise sales over

The first effort under this new vision was John Carter, and the whole theory has been under review since then.

I'm guessing the new plan is to just buy ready made merchandise products, and to start that with the biggest merchandising cash cow of them all, Star Wars. I expect we'll see new movies with new alien, robots and spaceships rolling out every couple of years, each with a dozen games spread across all platforms, and toy versions of absolutely everything, and constantly grinding all of this stuff out until we're all finally sick of it.

Mind you, waiting for people to get sick of the selling of Star Wars stuff is like waiting for GW price rises to finally stop us buying their stuff.

 sebster wrote:
Disney hatched on to a new business plan a few years ago. They realised there's basically stuff all money in movies - you get some big hits and some big misses, and pretty much end up where you started. The real money is in merchandise, and if you focus on building really big franchises and nothing else then even if the box office doesn't justify the cost of making the movie and the huge cost of hyping the movie, then the merchandise sales over

The first effort under this new vision was John Carter, and the whole theory has been under review since then.

I'm guessing the new plan is to just buy ready made merchandise products, and to start that with the biggest merchandising cash cow of them all, Star Wars. I expect we'll see new movies with new alien, robots and spaceships rolling out every couple of years, each with a dozen games spread across all platforms, and toy versions of absolutely everything, and constantly grinding all of this stuff out until we're all finally sick of it.

Mind you, waiting for people to get sick of the selling of Star Wars stuff is like waiting for GW price rises to finally stop us buying their stuff.

Right seb... 'cuz we're all fanboi

We'll buy GW plastic-crack...

We'll buy SW merchandise/movies...

We're suckers and we don't care!

 USMCdeathmachine wrote:
As a current Disney cast member I think its a good move, They could bring a whole new light to the series that no one else has done and for all the people crying keep in mind disney owns marvel ya know that company that made The Avengers

The revolutionary part of that deal was Disney granting Marvel basically free reign to make its movies as it pleased. Disney did this because it new what Marvel needed was money and access to merchandising contacts... the one thing it had was a wealth of writers and creatives types that knew how to make superhero stories. As such, Disney made the sensible, but remarkably rare in Hollywood decision, to stay out of plotting and storyline elements, and let Marvel fo that.

On the other hand, those strengths don't really exist with Star Wars. At this point you can't really point at anyone and say 'that person knows how to write a Star Wars story'. I mean, there's been some good stuff written since the original trilogy, but most of those folk aren't there anymore, or have written plenty of drek as well.

To be perfectly honest, I'm not even sure what a good, commercial story would be in Star Wars anymore.

 sebster wrote:
To be perfectly honest, I'm not even sure what a good, commercial story would be in Star Wars anymore.

Probably something that keeps the mythology of Star Wars, but not the storyline.

Thrawn Trilogy..mention earlier. Has to be unless they go all out and do the Battle of Corausant(sp)

Oh gak the battle of coruscant would be EPIC to see on film! Hundred of capital ships, thousands of snub fighters, untold amounts of infantry deploying to the surface...

They can't bring the Vong in yet because its to far in the future.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Oh gak the battle of coruscant would be EPIC to see on film! Hundred of capital ships, thousands of snub fighters, untold amounts of infantry deploying to the surface...

I just want to see a fething Super Star Destroyer pull itself out of Coruscant's surface...

That's all... if they can pull that off...




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 Jihadin wrote:
They can't bring the Vong in yet because its to far in the future.

If you haven't read the series... don't click this:

 Peregrine wrote:
Because of the stated release schedule of the first new film coming in 2013

That would be 2015.

 Peregrine wrote:
and new ones every 2-3 years after that.

Just like the prequels and original trilogy.

 Peregrine wrote:
That looks alarmingly like the movies are going to be a rush job to cash in on the fan base as fast as possible, on top of the extremely high potential for everyone to just get tired of Star Wars after seeing movie after movie after movie. The universe has a lot of potential, and Disney's plan looks like it's going to use it all up as quickly as possible in the name of short-term profits.

As above, how is it a rush job if they're taking until 2015 for the first movie, and using the same release schedule that all of the other movies stuck to?

As for people getting tired of Star Wars, just don't want them anymore.