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Disney buys LucasFilm

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Disney is buying Lucasfilm, the company behind the Star Wars films, from its chairman and founder George Lucas for $4.05bn (£2.5bn).

Mr Lucas said: "It's now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of film-makers."

In a statement announcing the purchase, Disney said it planned to release a new Star Wars film, episode seven, in 2015.

That will be followed by episodes eight and nine and then one new movie every two or three years, the company said.


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Important enough to have it's own thread.

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You know what Disney are like. The new film will probably be about Jar Jar Binks and the Ewoks so they can sell cuddley toys to children.

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Important enough to have it's own thread.

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And you thought George had sold out before ;)

Lev's right, but if The Avengers and everything around it is anything to go by (I don't really follow the Pixar stuff), someone at Disney 'gets it.' It's worth remembering the state Disney was in before.

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I am hoping that it will lead to more movies and not simply remastering in 3D.

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Joss Whedon writing a Star Wars film? Can we have Nathan Fillion wielding a Lightsabre please?

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:D That'd be awesome.
A Mal/Han stand off please.

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:D That'd be awesome.
A Mal/Han stand off please.

Han will cheat and shoot first. :lol:

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They should get the guys who write Clone Wars to do the next film. The last series had two three episode arcs both of which would have made better star wars than any of the last three films.


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Kevin Smith, on Facebook wrote:
WE ARE DISNEY!
ALL YOUR CHILDHOOD ARE BELONG TO US!

Lots of folks asking what I think about the recent announcement that Disney is now the proud owned of the STAR WARS universe. I'm all for it. Can't wait to see all the new movies they're gonna make. The 7 year old Kev who saw STAR WARS during its initial release in 1977 is finally gonna get all 9 STAR WARS movies he was promised back then. I'll be first in line to pay for whatever they do.

The Disney purchase of Lucasfilm is the fulfillment of a wish the Mouse made upon a star a few years back: the wish for little boys.

Sounds dirty but it's just business: the Disney Princess market gave the Mouse all the little girls they could sell an Ariel costume to but Disney couldn't interest boys in their wonderful world beyond the single digit years. Few boys are clamoring to play with a Peter Pan action figure and hooking the audience while their young is an important component of long term brand loyalty. So rather than develop their own boys brand in-house, they started buying "boy" stuff. It started with Marvel and it now continues with the world of STAR WARS.

And so long as Disney's allowed to continue the franchise and make new flicks, they'll make that $4 billion back in less than a decade. They've got eons worth on non-movie material to work from, too: all the books, the games, the comics, etc.

But the most important development to come out of the Disney purchase of Lucasfilm?

We might finally get an official Special Edition BluRay release of the STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL!!!

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They should get the guys who write Clone Wars to do the next film. The last series had two three episode arcs both of which would have made better star wars than any of the last three films.

As long as the Gungans do not make an appearance, especially Jar Jar Binks.

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Merge some Disney franchises.
Let's have Sith v X-men. ;-)

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Merge some Disney franchises.
Let's have Sith v X-men. ;-)

Sith vs The Seven Dwarfs. ;)

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i'm a bit concerned about the bit that says : "new movies every 2/3 years from 2014"


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