Disney buying Lucasfilm for $4.05 Billion.

Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you:

No adverts like this in the forums anymore.
Times and dates in your local timezone.
Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance.
Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely.
Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net.

If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

**rockerbikie**

Frazzled wrote:
reds8n wrote:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/24356.html

A screenwriter has already produced a 40- to 50-page treatment for Star Wars Episode 7, the first of the new trilogy that was announced in connection with the Disney acquisition of Lucasfilm (see "Disney Acquires Lucasfilm!"), according to Vulture. Michael Arndt, who won an Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine and was nominated for Toy Story 3, has completed his treatment and is the leading candidate to pen the full script, according to the report.
The treatment is going to be pitched to top directors including Brad Bird (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol), Steven Spielberg, and J.J. Abrams.
The studio hopes to get the three central stars from the first film to play the characters much older: Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill.
The Vulture story is based on information from "informed sources," with no direct comment from any of the people involved, so should probably be taken with a grain of salt until confirmed, although Vulture is usually reliable.

Little Miss Sunshine was/is superb ... not sure if it quite qualifies one to write a Star Wars film but should/could at least provide a tad more depth and better dialogue anyway.

... Be somewhat surprised if Paramount let JJ Abrams direct it, stranger things have happened though I guess.

He did Star Trek which made a buttload of money though.

Which Star Trek movie/series?

**d-usa**

If this will somehow results in a Kingdom Hearts game featuring Darth Vader I would squeal like a little girl.

**Kanluwen**

rockerbikie wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
reds8n wrote:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/24356.html

A screenwriter has already produced a 40- to 50-page treatment for Star Wars Episode 7, the first of the new trilogy that was announced in connection with the Disney acquisition of Lucasfilm (see "Disney Acquires Lucasfilm!"), according to Vulture. Michael Arndt, who won an Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine and was nominated for Toy Story 3, has completed his treatment and is the leading candidate to pen the full script, according to the report.
The treatment is going to be pitched to top directors including Brad Bird (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol), Steven Spielberg, and J.J. Abrams.
The studio hopes to get the three central stars from the first film to play the characters much older: Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill.
The Vulture story is based on information from "informed sources," with no direct comment from any of the people involved, so should probably be taken with a grain of salt until confirmed, although Vulture is usually reliable.

Little Miss Sunshine was/is superb ... not sure if it quite qualifies one to write a Star Wars film but should/could at least provide a tad more depth and better dialogue anyway.

... Be somewhat surprised if Paramount let JJ Abrams direct it, stranger things have happened though I guess.

He did Star Trek which made a buttload of money though.

Which Star Trek movie/series?

The most recent movie?

They're wrapping on a sequel right now.