BREAKING:Disney buys Lucasfilm for $4b, Episode VII slated for 2015

[Astor]

Originally Posted by Darth Avlectus

Long story short: Clones of self+Transfer Essence.

Hmm, so Luke Skywalker is going to be hunting down Vader's horcruxes?

[Darth Avlectus]

Sure. Why not?

[Shem]

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[Giant Graffiti]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hea...n-simon-393459

Lawrence Kasdan will be writing either episode 8 or episode 9.

[Bob Saget]

Guys, guys... Just use this explanation and all of your questions will go away.

SPACE MAGIC.

It helped with ME3

[Q]

^

Originally Posted by Giant Graffiti

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hea...n-simon-393459

Lawrence Kasdan will be writing either episode 8 or episode 9.

OMGFAPFAPFAPFAPFAP

[Shem]

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[Char Ell]

I've been meaning to post this but haven't made the time to do so until now. Throttle back on your pod racers people, this deal ain't done yet though I don't think there is any reason to believe it won't be. Although the U.S. FTC cleared Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm earlier this month the European Commission has yet to render a decision but apparently has to say something by December 21. The commission apparently will either approve the purchase on or before December 21 or will announce an extension of the review period. I don't know if the deal has to be approved by any other regulatory bodies but if not then it looks like chances are good that Disney will close on this deal by the end of the year. It's almost official but not quite yet.

[Bob Saget]

Doesn't really mean much, the deal is done. Disney has bought our Lucasfilm, Lucasarts. All that needs to be considered is what they will do with it and how carefully will they tread

[Q]

I remain cautiously optimistic.

Can it really be any worse than it's been since 1999?

[Sabretooth]

Originally Posted by Q

I remain cautiously optimistic.

Can it really be any worse than it's been since 1999?

[Shem]

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[Alexrd]

Originally Posted by Q

Can it really be any worse than it's been since 1999?

Was it even bad in the first place?

[Char Ell]

It's now official. The European Commission cleared Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm yesterday and Disney closed the deal in the same day. Should anyone have noticed that the day of the close occurred on the same day as the supposed Mayan "end of the world" I'm sure it's purely coincidental.


THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY COMPLETES LUCASFILM ACQUISITION

[Pho3nix]

Originally Posted by Char Ell

It's now official. The European Commission cleared Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm yesterday and Disney closed the deal in the same day. Should anyone have noticed that the day of the close occurred on the same day as the supposed Mayan "end of the world" I'm sure it's purely coincidental.


THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY COMPLETES LUCASFILM ACQUISITION

[Shem]

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[Prime]

Who is the Lucas guy and why does he matter anymore?

Love,
Gary Kurtz

[Darth Avlectus]

^^^Umm...wat?

[Sith Holocron]

Originally Posted by Prime

Who is the Lucas guy and why does he matter anymore?

Love,
Gary Kurtz

Originally Posted by Darth Avlectus

^^^Umm...wat?

Gary Kurtz (born July 27, 1940 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film producer whose list of credits include American Graffiti, Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back. He later produced The Dark Crystal and Return to Oz after departing from the Star Wars series.

Read this and become enlightened.

[Alexrd]

Originally Posted by Sith Holocron

Read this and become enlightened.

I think he didn't understood the comment itself, not the person.

[battle111]

Hey news on movie web !!

http://www.movieweb.com/news/abc-wan...pensive-budget

"ABC Want's Star wars live action TV series Despite it's expensive budget"

an animated comedy series ?? what the ??

[Miltiades]

Originally Posted by battle111

an animated comedy series ?? what the ??

That's Star Wars: Detours.

Don't have much to say about the TV series. It's pretty obvious it would end up on ABC and that ABC would want a SW series on their network. Whether we'll get one (soon), remains to be seen. The only interesting new info is that Ron Moore was involved in writing the scripts. Now I'm curious what a Ron Moore SW episode would look like.

[battle111]

Originally Posted by Miltiades

That's Star Wars: Detours.

Don't have much to say about the TV series. It's pretty obvious it would end up on ABC and that ABC would want a SW series on their network. Whether we'll get one (soon), remains to be seen. The only interesting new info is that Ron Moore was involved in writing the scripts. Now I'm curious what a Ron Moore SW episode would look like.

l too am curious how would a Ron Moore SW episode would look like but hmmm

[Prime]

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/pos...source=dlvr.it

The idea of a Star Wars-ized version of the Seven Samurai excites me greatly.

[Alexrd]

It appears JJ Abrams will get the director's chair...

This can only mean one thing: lens flares.

[Dak Drexl]

Originally Posted by Alexrd

This can only mean one thing: lens flares.

Of course!

I think JJ will do a great job; we will just have to wait and see.

[Lynk Former]

Well f***...

I'm not happy.

[Giant Graffiti]

Originally Posted by J.J. Abrams

I quickly said that because of my loyalty to Star Trek, and also just being a fan, I wouldn’t even want to be involved in the next version of those things. I declined any involvement very early on. I’d rather be in the audience not knowing what was coming, rather than being involved in the minutiae of making them.

http://screenrant.com/jj-abrams-star...de-7-director/

[Dak Drexl]

Originally Posted by Giant Graffiti

http://screenrant.com/jj-abrams-star...de-7-director/

That was pretty well-known before. I think it's pretty set in stone now though, so he was probably just swatting away any speculation before.

[Sith Holocron]

Originally Posted by Alexrd

It appears JJ Abrams will get the director's chair...

This can only mean one thing: lens flares.

Directing Star Wars and Star Trek? That's like "crossing the streams" of nerd-dom.

[Alexrd]

Originally Posted by Sith Holocron

Directing Star Wars and Star Trek? That's like "crossing the streams" of nerd-dom.

His Star Trek movie is more Star Wars than anything else.

[beanlord56]

I don't care what you guys think about Abrams, I'm in-need-of-new-underwear-excited. Kinda like this guy:

[Lynk Former]

I don't trust him as a director. He's overhyped and his movies are forgettable... or memorable for the wrong reasons.

[Ctrl Alt Del]

I like him much better than, say, Spielberg's stuff that came of late.

And I'm sure he knows the established movie canon isn't meant to be messed with (as he did with Star Trek IX).

[Alexrd]

Originally Posted by Ctrl Alt Del

And I'm sure he knows the established movie canon isn't meant to be messed with (as he did with Star Trek IX).

He's tied to the story of Lucas.

[Dak Drexl]

Originally Posted by Alexrd

He's tied to the story of Lucas.

Do you mean this is in regard to the overall SW universe or Lucas' VII-IX treatments?

[Lynk Former]

Originally Posted by Alexrd

He's tied to the story of Lucas.

He is tied to the story that Lucas made a treatment of that Arndt has written the screenplay for... but the director is the one who dictates how it's told regardless of what the writers have written. The reason why a director is seen as the most important part of the movie is because they end up shaping the very style of the movie itself (aside from the person/people doing the music), even if you have specific talented people working on the movie too who have their own style of doing things, the director is the one that still calls the shots in the direction the movie goes.


I'm not too thrilled about Abrams as director, I hope this turns out to be a really crappy rumour that isn't true... but if he is director, I'm hope I'm wrong and he's all like "TO HELL WITH ALL THIS GREENSCREEN! LET'S DO THIS ALL PRACTICALLY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!" and turns out to do an awesome job with the movie.

After all, I don't WANT it to suck. I just have no confidence in Abrams. Hopefully I'm wrong and the people happy about him directing are right.

[Miltiades]

Looking back at what Abrams did with Star Trek, I can see how that would translate well to a Star Wars movie (perhaps more so than it did a Star Trek movie, I don't know, Abrams' Trek is the only one I've seen to date). But it's a style I'd identify more with the prequels than the original trilogy. Moreover, I'm not sure Abrams and Arndt combine well. If it turns out to be true, though, I'll be mildly disappointed, but willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

[Alexrd]

Originally Posted by Lynk Former

He is tied to the story that Lucas made a treatment of that Arndt has written the screenplay for... but the director is the one who dictates how it's told regardless of what the writers have written.

I'm not arguing that. I'm merely saying that both Abrams and Arndt are tied to the story Lucas wrote.

[Lynk Former]

Treatment, not story. Arndt was hired to flesh out the points of the treatment to create a screenplay which is why he is important because although Lucas wrote the treatment, the way Arndt goes about his screenplay is more important than the treatment itself.