Earlier today, Disney purchased Lucasfilm for 4.05 billion dollars. George Lucas still owns Lucasfilm, but it has been run by Kathleen Kennedy since Lucas stepped down earlier this year. Along with this news, Disney has confirmed that Star Wars 7 is in the works and has a release date of 2015. Other than Lucas himself being on board as a creative consultant, no other news has been posted. What are your thoughts on this surprising move?
I know. Honestly, I’m stupefied, terrified, and manically hopeful all at the same time. This is pretty unprecedented stuff for me, given the GL said that movies were done with.
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But, it brings up so many possibilities. The EU books of the Post-endor Star Wars provide a vast source of characters and plot ideas.
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We might see Thrawn in all his glory. The Yuuzhan Vong War, Mara muthafucking Jade Skywalker, Darths Galore.
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I think a new trilogy will rock the world of cinema and Star Wars. The real question is whether it will be for Great Justice, or shall fall to the Dark Side.
wow…..
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I have mixed feelings, both shocked and kinnda sad. I guess its one of those, “I hope to all that is holy that they don’t ruin it.”
It would be awesome to see Mara Jade in a movie. Her and Ysanne Isard. Those are the two I would like to see.
i am of the opinion that the first three were awesome, the prequals….not so much. they had their moments but in general they kinda sucked. i am only hoping the jackass (can’t remember the name at this moment) that screwed up the movies, george lucas right?, has little to no input.
If you watched the video, George himself said that he would never do Episodes 7,8, and 9, and that he doesn’t want to work on Star Wars anymore. His only involvement would be as a consultant at the most.
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Anyways, I’m hesitantly hopeful. I would love to see the X-Wing series on the big screen.
@Messenger OriginalA
Would be interesting to see MJ on screen, for sure, but if I say I’d be more eager to await Kyle Katarn or Lowie, you’re not gonna hold it against me or shoot me if I admit this, are you?
I’d hope not!
Darth Vader in Kingdom Hearts anyone?
The possibilities are endless.
I wonder which major events will get noted directly with the new trilogy even if they aren’t shown directly on screen, and which ones will be among the side-stories that won’t be taken too in-depth.
If it isn’t close to the Dark Forces or Thrawn series, I don’t want it. Disney hasn’t destroyed Marvel yet, and they’ve had 3 years, but they’re making the oligopoly situation of western entertainment worse.
“Darth Vader in Kingdom Hearts anyone?”
Yes please. Lightsaber vs Keyblade FTW.
@BillDing
If it helps, they said 20 years after A New Hope, and the last known Thrawn Series that happened happened 19 years after A New Hope, so for all we know, Thrawn himself will get a noteworthy mention at the very least.
Well, hopefully speaking anyway.
All I can say is, HOLY
Leia for best Disney Princess!
Not gonna lie, I’m drunk, and though I’ve heard this news already. I was nowhere near this intoxicATEDD. STREAKING TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saw it coming, bout time.
I wonder if it’s going to be live action or animated.
@Magic Hax Lowk’s
Are you sure Major ZomB’s feeling okay, lately?
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He seemed to be getting…shaky at best.
Anywho, what are the odds of Lowie being in there?
I wonder if it’s going to be live action or animated.
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Say the ‘A’ word again, I fkin dare you!
Ugh animated… with Disney that’s huge possibility and if it’s going to be like that last Star Wars animated movie, you might as well kill the franchise… again.
“Ugh animated… with Disney that’s huge possibility and if it’s going to be like that last Star Wars animated movie, you might as well kill the franchise… again.”
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The show is pretty good. … and the movie wasn’t that bad…. for a direct-to-tv-movie.
“The show is pretty good. … and the movie wasn’t that bad…. for a direct-to-tv-movie.”
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It was a successful Theatre movie… Monetarily only.
The show is pretty good.
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Yeah I know, I watched a few episodes of it.
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the movie wasn’t that bad…. for a direct-to-tv-movie.
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It just seemed like a particularly long episode to me. Not really theater worthy.
The Movie wasn’t designed to be a movie. It was suppposed to be a … three (?) episode long pilot. George said to edit it and ship it as a movie and put it in theaters.
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So it feeling like a particularly long episode is because it is exactly that. It was merely advertised as a movie, which it only technically did not fail as.
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I liked it.
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You know. Ahsoka should get a match here. She isn’t absurdly powerful as a jedi, yet neither is she as weak as the (not to shabby) clone troopers.
Lucas strikes again I suppose.
@Messenger OriginalA at #22
All I got for options at the moment for vs Ahsoka would be someone like Akua Shuzen from Rosario + Vampire, actually.
Except…I don’t know if Ahsoka ever dealt with Intangible beings before. T_T
If they are actually setting the movie at 20aby that is the year Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade get married (if they do not decide to throw out all of the EU stuff) which would make a good Disney style ending for the movie.
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Holy Passamacracka. How anxious am I.
DUDE why must disney destroy my childhood??? WHY? :O
I am hopeful to see the EU turned into movies.
But if Disney fucks this up the geek community will rain unholy anger on them and make sure Disney dies a slow painful death. So Disney better hope they bust out an original Trilogy/Raiders of the Lost Ark style masterpiece and not a piece of crap.
And No Jar Jar type characters damnit!
Just no… Don’t do it Disney. Don’t risk ruining Star Wars. Don’t f***ing do it
Rather than another SW movie, id rather find out what happened to Revan, wether he actualy died or escaped…
@NKB Type-Fallstar
While I can’t claim I know who’s that person on the gravatar*, I can say this:
In terms of overall Badassitude, let’s agree that Ancient Star Wars >>> Modern Star Wars in this respect among others, amen to that?(although Modern may or may not be too far behind!)
Here’s hoping Revan gets at least an honorary mention or two, actually.
“While I can’t claim I know who’s that person on the gravatar*, ”
its susposed to be lucy (Elfen Lied) poseing like Yuno(Mirai Nikki)(look at Krazys Gravatar)
@NKB
That expression haunts my soul even to this day, and combine it with someone I may have a few shreds of working remorse on and…yikes!!!
Anywho back on the thread at hand, what are the odds of Lowie being on there at least?
Here’s the big question here. What single EU event can fill up three whole movies? The Yuuzhan Vong war maybe, or Thrawn of course. Given that Movies hold the highest canon weight, they can boot out any expanded universe stuff, but that would be a shame in my opinion. I think The EU and movies should work with each other.
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God knows Disney can do it. But He also knows they can just as easily fuck it all up.
“Darth Vader in Kingdom Hearts anyone?”
Force choke final boss, acquire final final boss status.
“DUDE why must disney destroy my childhood??? WHY? :O”
Because it IS your childhood MUHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHJAH!!!!!!
It’s live action.
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Also, if it’s good, the trilogy could decanonize some of the bad EU books.
I really don’t think that Disney is going to follow the EU. Why? It’s not really what SW is noted for outside of the community on the Internet. They’ve said they’re going to continue the story of Luke, Leia, and Han, and I feel they will come up with one completely different from what the EU has presented.
@aelfinn
Wouldn’t that then potentially “decanonize ” several books?
@Ael
But what would they focus on, I wonder? Are they going to completely revamp everything? No Imperial Remnant, no Thrawn, no Vong, no Darth Caedus or Resurrected Palpatine? No Darth Krayt?
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That would be a little dissappointing really.
OH MY GAWD, I didn’t even notice this here! I heard this, but wow…this saddens me…
Lets hope they don’t do an animated move (ala that BS clone wars series) and do something outside cannon (I WILL NOT BE RETCONNED!!)
*canon
@Master Sarge
They could just focus on several of the side-stories that might have happened during the New Republic Era and try to compress them in a manner that won’t feel too episodic for anyone’s tastes.
Well it seems they not using any EU sources, but will create a completely new story carrying on from episode 6.
However I wonder who they will cast in the titular roles, since I imagine it will be live action, since all the previous films have been, however I doubt they will set the film 30 years in the future, so the original actors will age appropriate.
Because if the could replace William shatner, with chris pine in star trek, they can certainly swap out harrison ford and mark hamel for younger models.
“Because if the could replace William shatner, with chris pine in star trek, they can certainly swap out harrison ford and mark hamel for younger models.”
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No. Absolutely not.
I agree, any recast is a travesty, and old actors are also a travesty. For the love of the force, use an EU source, or at least create a new storyline with new characters. If they put Michael Bay on this project…there will be blood
I thinks it’s good.
I mean, I’m exited because I get to go back again to the times where you can’t wait for a Star Wars movie, this opens lots of possibilities for Star Wars to expand, it gives it strength and possibilities that Lucas can’t offer it.
I know some people don’t like a fresh new start for chapter 7, but I’m ok with it, I mean, we where ok when Star Wars started because it was something new, it’s unfair to bitch about a new start that is unrelated to earlier plots from earlier episodes.
At least the new generations will get to witness their own beginning with Star Wars and not have a bunch of old people telling them that it was better a bunch of years ago.
I’m ok as long as it keeps surprising with that awesome Star Wars feeling to it.
I think they said something about a new start, many years ahead of the episode 6 so that the cast from episode 6 won’t make an appearance. Like starting a brand new plot to start in complete control as they please.
@OMEGAMI
Yeah, i guess. A new plot that will not affect the others wouldn’t be so bad, I just grew up with these movies, you know? I just hope they don’t trash the rest of the continuity.
“ I agree, any recast is a travesty, and old actors are also a travesty. For the love of the force, use an EU source, or at least create a new storyline with new characters. If they put Michael Bay on this project…there will be blood “
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J. J. Abrams would be another instant death for the movie too.
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If they are planning something “completely new” that ignores the EU I hope that they place it far enough outside of the EU events to not conflict with it. That timeline splitting disaster of a movie from 2009 killed what was left of Star Trek, I would hate to see the same thing happen to Star Wars.
“If they put Michael Bay on this project…there will be blood”
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Star Wars VI: Even Lightsabers Explode
@BC
But what could they do? Pick up AFTER the Legacy Era? As far as I’m aware, there is very little of that history not covered in the EU some way or another.
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Though, Movies take supremacy, so if they did make something totally new, we would have to live with it.
” Though, Movies take supremacy, so if they did make something totally new, we would have to live with it. ”
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That or just ignore it if it is too bad. If interest drops off like it did with the Abrams Trek caracature the new movies will just die off after the first.
They will simply ignore the EU, for the simple reason most people have no idea, what happens in it, and only have the films as the established history, and the writers and director will want to start fresh, not be confined by the huge amount of EU material that already exists, and have they trouble of cutting it down in order to show on the big screen.
Disney don’t need really to worry about upsetting the fans since they know they are going to make a huge profit, no matter what they make the film about, and I’m pretty sure that nobody here, no matter what they feel about the next films story or it’s director will boycott the film.
I was not talking about a boycott, I said if it turned out to be a bad film people will not be interested in seeing it.
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Most fans are familliar with the EU so ignoring it puts them one strike in the hole already though of course it would not matter to non-fans. They have to make a much better film just to gain traction against fan skepticism.
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They would not have to make it nit-picking exact to make it at least generally compatible with fan expectations either, just something reasonably close.
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Of course if it is good enough fans would not mind the continuity being split. Trek failed miserably in this respect, only time will tell if Star Wars will succeed in it.
“Trek failed miserably in this respect”
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I have to say you are the first person that I’ve heard say that. Not that that really means anything because I don’t pay alot of attention to that sort of thing. but I always thought Trek did well and there is a new one coming out next year is there not?
I read up to the second Thrawn book (whatever the one was after the trilogy with the fake Thrash and the Thrawn clone) until i gave up on the EU. So hear me when I say I don’t want the new movies to cover the EU. What’s the point of watching something that we already know the whole of the story. So I want the new movies to either overwrite some portions of the EU, or find a place to squeeze it in. However, I want the original cast (Hammill, Ford, and Fisher). They don’t have to be primary roles, but they must be in there. I’d say put it 50 years in the future. Han and Leia are retired on a distant planet (Lucas’ vision of them anyways) and Luke is an old Jedi Master instructing new Jedi. [Insert main story here] The end.
Or it could be a story which just happens to take place in the Star Wars universe who’s characters are wholly unrelated to the original cast and have no ties social or otherwise to them. A war movie about clones fighting droids would be fine with me. Or adventurers questing to find some ancient sith treasure before a crime lord obtains it and starts popping suns or whatever. It doesn’t have to tie in with the major over arching plot that effects the entire galaxy. If you want a Cameo, perhaps a story of one planet throwing off the reigns of the empire, and in the big fight scene with star fighters all over the place the Millenium Falcon gets a few shots. Maybe even unknowingly saves some main characters when it pulls a strafing run on some enemies that have them pinned down under fire. There’s A LOT of opportunities here to do their own thing.
@Sauro
I suppose I could live with that. Talon Karrde for example is the sort of person that you could make a movie about. Even if it wasn’t him, that sort of character has a lot of possibilities; Star Wars has potential for pretty well wherever you look.
@Master Sarge
I doubt Karde’s the only one with such potential to consider, what about Kyle Katarn for that matter?
Or it could involve some kind of massive in-universe timeline split or two going on and the trilogy would have to cover how to deal with this accordingly.
“ “Trek failed miserably in this respect”
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I have to say you are the first person that I’ve heard say that. Not that that really means anything because I don’t pay alot of attention to that sort of thing. but I always thought Trek did well and there is a new one coming out next year is there not? “
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Trek fans usually expect more than mindless action with no attention to continuity whatsoever, be it continuity with other Trek stuff or just continuity within the movie itself. While it is true that they did pick up a lot of new audience they lost a lot of the long time fans in the process; most of the people I have spoken to about the Abrams Trek movie and the upcoming one are lukewarm about it at best and “I’ll probably wait for it to come out on cable” is the most common answer.
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There are quite a few web pages pointing out the many idiotic gaffs and inconsistencies that plague the 2009 plot just in context with itself let alone any relationship with the main continuity. I am not talking minor face palm levels of stupidity, I mean the major jaw-dropping “what the hell were they thinking?” moments like travelling at “maximum warp” for at least a half hour and probably more away from Vulcan and then marooning Kirk on a ‘planetoid on their present course’ that by the visuals later during the planet destruction flashback would have to have been a moon of Vulcan. They would have been out of sight of Vulcan in seconds (in “broken arrow” Archer states that even warp at 4.5 it is only a six minute trip from Earth orbit to Neptune and back to Earth which fits the speed numbers on the old style warp chart and the normal cruising speed of a constitution class tops out at 6 (and ‘maximum’ is more than that) which is considerably faster).
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“ I doubt Karde’s the only one with such potential to consider, what about Kyle Katarn for that matter? “
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Whatever they do a lightsaber wielding force user of some kind is essential, it is the defacto standard that makes Star Wars Star Wars instead of some generic space opera. They could go with a Jedi or someone from one of the other force using groups like the Jensaarai or a kind of hybrid like the first group that Luke assembled to start the Paraxium or even someone trying to wing it on their own with old records or whatever. I think Sauro has the right idea, it would probably be best to have original characters in cameos at most and go with a new group.
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“ Or it could involve some kind of massive in-universe timeline split or two going on and the trilogy would have to cover how to deal with this accordingly. “
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I doubt they will even try to justify a split timeline since there is no existing mechanism in SW to go with like there was in Trek.
“visuals later during the planet destruction flashback would have to have been a moon of Vulcan. They would have been out of sight of Vulcan in seconds (in “broken arrow” Archer states that even warp at 4.5 it is only a six minute trip from Earth orbit to Neptune and back to Earth which fits the speed numbers on the old style warp chart and the normal cruising speed of a constitution class tops out at 6 (and ‘maximum’ is more than that) which is considerably faster).”
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Hooooly Shit…I never even realized that. God, now I feel like a massive idiot. My God, how did I miss that. Well then, I think I’ll go weep now.
”Trek fans usually expect more than mindless action with no attention to continuity whatsoever, be it continuity with other Trek stuff or just continuity within the movie itself. While it is true that they did pick up a lot of new audience they lost a lot of the long time fans in the process; most of the people I have spoken to about the Abrams Trek movie and the upcoming one are lukewarm about it at best and “I’ll probably wait for it to come out on cable” is the most common answer.”
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Which is odd when you consider a good portion of Trek episodes make up techonobabble to solve whatever issue happens along, which may or may not be consistent with itself or other techobabble issues that happened. And half the time they used contrived reasons to get the characters involved in whatever that happened to be as well. The “moon” bit for me, I didn’t notice it when it happened, and I can’t say that it really changes my opinion of the movie either. But hey if that bothers some people I guess the complaints are understandable.
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But this article is from the Tor website about TNG comic con appearance, and the salient bit from Wil Wheaton:
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”The new Trek reboot, Wheaton pointed out, translated Star Trek “into a language that my kids can speak, made them excited about it.” Which led me to think that just as every Doctor Who fan has “their Doctor,” each generation of Trekkers needs its own Star Trek. And for those of us for whom ST:TNG was our Star Trek, it was a treat to spend some time with actors who feel like old friends, and who were clearly having a blast themselves”
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I grew up watching TNG, my dad grew up watching TOS, but we both enjoyed the new movie as well. I think that Star Wars has this kind of potential as well here. I don’t think that Abrams or Bay would ruin this movie if they did it, they will just make it different, and they probably will lose old fans in the process if they do. I’m not entirely sure that means Star Trek failed because of that, nor do I think that Star Wars will have failed either if that happens.
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Either way I’m excited to see what they come up with.
Could ruin the name of Star Wars, or it could mean the Trilogy rumored to be made since the end of Episode 6 might finally come about. It could also mean EU movies… Boba Fett solo film anyone..?