Holy Sh*t! Disney bought Lucasfilm! Star Wars VII in 2015

[BurningDoom]

It won't be based on the books:

http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2012/10/31/star-wars-episode-7-will-be-original-story-report-says/

Star Wars Episode 7 Will Be ‘Original Story,’ Report Says



When it was announced Tuesday that Disney will acquire Lucasfilm and release Star Wars Episode 7 in 2015, many fans hoped that meant the new films would follow Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn Trilogy (aka Heirs to the Empire), the bestselling novels set five years after the events of Return of the Jedi. However, a new report appears to dash those hopes.

Speaking to a source at Lucasfilm, E! News learned that Episode 7 is “an original story.” So what does that mean?

The website states, “Forget the Star Wars novels. Forget the graphic novels. Forget everything you think you know about what happens to Luke Skywalker. According to my sources, Episode 7 will literally be nothing you’ve ever seen or read before from the Star Wars universe.”

While that’s disheartening news, it also sort of makes sense. Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford are all much too old to play their characters, and bringing them back in future films would just contribute to the nostalgia culture we’re living in. Sure, it would be great to see one of the original Star Wars actors make an appearance in the new movies, but it also would be a self-referential nod that would take the audience out of the film.

The “original story” route seems like the right option because, if Disney’s going to make a new generation of Star Wars work in a way the prequel trilogy couldn’t, then the studio’s got to find a way for it to be a success based on its own merit.

[MrPopo]

“Forget the Star Wars novels. Forget the graphic novels. Forget everything you think you know about what happens to Luke Skywalker. According to my sources, Episode 7 will literally be nothing you’ve ever seen or read before from the Star Wars universe.”

This is looking to be a good way to drive the movie off a cliff. The Prequel era was left untouched when the EU was being built up specifically so Lucas could do whatever he wanted in it, and even then Lucas managed to fuck with the EU canon (which is his right). That stuff got somewhat awkwardly tied together, but setting a sequel trilogy without any regard to what's going on in the EU will piss of a TON of people.

The only thing that leaves me hope is that they are much less likely to use the OT characters in primary roles, due to their age, and I don't think they'd recast them except as an old mentor character (Obi Wan and such).

[ZeroAX]

I'm actually quite happy about the new trilogy. No offense George Lucas, but seeing Darth Vader's origins wasn't interesting to begin with (wondering what events made him turn made the original trilogy much more interesting and "tragic".), and if you were going to make a movie about it, there was only enough story in it for ONE movie, not THREE. That's why we got boring and stupid things thrown into star wars.

Seeing what happens after the empire falls always seemed much more interesting to me.

On the other hand, I think they should just make Knights of the Old Republic movies

[Ack]

This isn't getting discussed as much, but along with the whole Star Wars acquisition, Industrial Light and Magic was also included in the sale, so Disney now owns ILM.

[emwearz]

This isn't getting discussed as much, but along with the whole Star Wars acquisition, Industrial Light and Magic was also included in the sale, so Disney now owns ILM.

Did they buy LucasArts?

[MrPopo]

This isn't getting discussed as much, but along with the whole Star Wars acquisition, Industrial Light and Magic was also included in the sale, so Disney now owns ILM.

Did they buy LucasArts?

Yes, that was already confirmed earlier in the thread. And they have Skywalker Sound.

[Luke]

Brad Bird or Joe Johnston. Let the battle begin.

As far as the writer, every rumor has been hogwash so far.

[dsheinem]

Something awesome has already come of this: http://todayentertainment.today.com/_ne ... bcnews.com

I hereby absolve George of all past and future sins.

[MrPopo]

Something awesome has already come of this: http://todayentertainment.today.com/_ne ... bcnews.com

I hereby absolve George of all past and future sins.

Nice to see plenary indulgence is back in vogue.

[garrett123]

Well, george lucas was planning on releasing all the movies in 3d
then he wanted to make starwars, the new trilogy, which would have nothing to do with the original 6 movies
http://blog.moviefone.com/2010/09/28/st ... ease-2012/

but now, there going to continue to vII

It doesnt bug me any, becuase disney is letting the same crew stay, but...

They are going to suck it dry, like it was already

and

they are going to use all the technology lucasarts created, and they will probably use things exclusive to starwars effects to better there own films