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 timetowaste85 wrote:
Does this mean we can finally have the Star Wars vs Marvel fight that nerds everywhere have fought over for years? Meaning the nerds on here. I know Marvel will win, but some of you actually think SW has a chance. Fools.

Versus the Yuuzhan Vong War veteran Luke Skywalker??? Marvel doesn't have a bloody chance!

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Does this mean we can finally have the Star Wars vs Marvel fight that nerds everywhere have fought over for years? Meaning the nerds on here. I know Marvel will win, but some of you actually think SW has a chance. Fools.

Or we could have Marvel vs Capcom vs Star Wars games

 whembly wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Does this mean we can finally have the Star Wars vs Marvel fight that nerds everywhere have fought over for years? Meaning the nerds on here. I know Marvel will win, but some of you actually think SW has a chance. Fools.

Versus the Yuuzhan Vong War veteran Luke Skywalker??? Marvel doesn't have a bloody chance!

Message to Whembly....

Asgard vs Luke. Well, Mark Hamill, it was nice knowing you-welcome to your new life as a bloodsmear.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Does this mean we can finally have the Star Wars vs Marvel fight that nerds everywhere have fought over for years? Meaning the nerds on here. I know Marvel will win, but some of you actually think SW has a chance. Fools.

Well, Lord of the Rings had yearly instalments for the trilogy and that turned out pretty well. Disney could MAYBE do it just as well, we'll just have to wait and see.

 creeping-deth87 wrote:
Well, Lord of the Rings had yearly installments for the trilogy and that turned out pretty well. Disney could MAYBE do it just as well, we'll just have to wait and see.

The Lord of the Rings movies were more or less filmed in huge chunks at once. By the time they finishing "Fellowship of the Ring", they'd already done quite a bit of the starting work for "The Two Towers" but took a break during the promotional run-up to "Fellowship"--and continued in the same fashion for "Return of the King".

The same thing is being done for The Hobbit trilogy.

Yeah, at the time the first movie was released they were about halfway done with the next movie. And so on.

plus IIRC it was more than a year between the LotR movies. Or maybe it just seemed longer for me

Sure, but we're not talking about a loving adaptation of a book, fairly loyal to source material and braving hordes of ravening ubernerd fans- we're talking about new movies, in a franchise that has been only too willing to brush aside or completely ignore any and all established canon in order to make entertaining movies.

Furthermore, Disney is asking this of a studio that has got to be terrified of failure. The Mouse just force-choked LucasArts video game division! Everyone's head is on the block if they don't deliver. The folks making Star Wars are more motivated than Admiral Piett right after the battle of Hoth.

Furthermore, this is now the same aegis that actually brought the epic experiment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to fruition. Disney has shown an awesome knack for capitalizing on existing universes. I believe that if anyone can take and make it work, they can.

Indeed, I am optimistic.

But I can't say the same for the ravenous EU fans. I couldn't care less about them though, most of the EU stuff just reads like fanboi crap. We're better off without it.

I feel that Zahn's Dark Fleet trilogy would have made a more interesting series of movies than the prequels.

 Easy E wrote:

 whembly wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Does this mean we can finally have the Star Wars vs Marvel fight that nerds everywhere have fought over for years? Meaning the nerds on here. I know Marvel will win, but some of you actually think SW has a chance. Fools.

Versus the Yuuzhan Vong War veteran Luke Skywalker??? Marvel doesn't have a bloody chance!

Message to Whembly....

HUlk may be a badass, bu when da Spazz Emprah can have the planet Hulk is standing on blown up, he's seriously outclassed.

 Frazzled wrote:
HUlk may be a badass, bu when da Spazz Emprah can have the planet Hulk is standing on blown up, he's seriously outclassed.

That would just piss him off even more, making him even more powerful

I'm semi-hopeful with Abrams at the helm. I enjoyed his Star Trek moviefilm.

Of course, I'd never seen so much as an episode of Star Trek before - or since - seeing it, so I have no idea how well it captured the actual universe.

 Seaward wrote:
I'm semi-hopeful with Abrams at the helm. I enjoyed his Star Trek moviefilm.

Of course, I'd never seen so much as an episode of Star Trek before - or since - seeing it, so I have no idea how well it captured the actual universe.

It didn't. It was an excellent sci fi romp if you didn't want to have time to catch a breath, but it had very little to do with Star Trek.

This of course means it will be perfect for the Star Wars universe (which was based on C movie action serials). Yes!

Meh, without George Lucas's genius, these films will suck.

 Squigsquasher wrote:
Meh, without George Lucas's suckage, these films will probably be awsome.

FTFY

George is not a genious by any streach of the imagination.

 Squigsquasher wrote:
Meh, without George Lucas's genius, these films will suck.

 Grey Templar wrote:

 Squigsquasher wrote:
Meh, without George Lucas's suckage, these films will probably be awsome.

FTFY

George is not a genious by any streach of the imagination.

How so?

He was the one who brought us the Star Wars series after all. No Lucas=no Star Wars. The only Star Wars film that even approaches being "bad" is Return of the Jedi. The rest are all solid.

I do hope that he's allowed to write the story.

I think you need to go on the internets and actually read into where we got StarWars from. George had the IDEA of StarWars, and it was VERY different originally. So no, George is an idiot, a terrible director and an even worse writer

I can be OK with this as long as those who work on the trilogy work on the trilogy only and those who work on the other projects stay there.

So long as there is not the guy who played Anakin (his acting was as rigid as a piece of wood), George Lucas has nothing to do with it and for there to be a FAR better plot, then all will be good. But that's a big ask...

Well, if it is Episode 7, Anakin is quite dead. Worst case scenario we get some Obi-Wan style voice acting and blue ghosting.

I would like to see a clean break from the existing films. Something better, grittier and where the script and set are guarded by people with orders to shoot George Lucas on sight.

Yeah, the original films weren't great because of George, they were great inspite of George.

While I don't hate the Prequels as much as most people, they were ok IMO, they certaintly weren't of the same quality.

Sounds interesting...

Disney gotta get that milk.

 SilverMK2 wrote:
I would like to see a clean break from the existing films. Something better, grittier and where the script and set are guarded by people with orders to shoot George Lucas on sight.

Its Disney. I wouldn't bet it would be grittier.

But Disney has a good record with films. I'm actually excited about that.

 Grey Templar wrote:
Yeah, the original films weren't great because of George, they were great inspite of George.

While I don't hate the Prequels as much as most people, they were ok IMO, they certaintly weren't of the same quality.

This is honestly how I look at it. Minus episode2, holy hell that borefest is just too much, and I dont see a reason to turn it on and skip all the way to the end to watch the only good part of that movie. But overall, the prequels were OK....But they certainly arnt good. Adn really you can see it in the originals as well. The first movie was fracking excellent, and thats because Lucas didnt have much say so in the film at all, and look at how it turned out. The 2nd movie wasnt AS good, but still really good, this is showing Lucas getting a little more pull on what goes on, but not total control. The 3rd strolls around, and is still a good movie, but this is starting to show a LOT more Lucas power then the previous 2, you can easily tell by 15 things going on at the same time, and stupid cute things popping up for no reason at all, and then the complete insanity of stupid that also happens.


I rest my case

Gitzbitah wrote:
Well, if it is Episode 7, Anakin is quite dead. Worst case scenario we get some Obi-Wan style voice acting and blue ghosting.

But Anakin could use the force and appear in all of the movies like he does at the end of Episode Six! Oh no!