I find the ILM part of the deal far more interesting than the Star Wars part. Takes out a Pixar competitor and gives Disney a stake in just about every big effects movie out there.

I don't know what to think about any of it. Though already it's starting to seem inevitable.

I knew an Ep 7 would eventually exist, as eventually Lucas would die and someone else would be sitting on the rights and unable to resist.

As for whether all this bodes well or not....I'm unable to parse any of it.

Since at least 80 percent of the Star Wars saga is unforgivably bad, experience teaches that it won't make a difference who makes it.

As for Howard the Duck reprises, I was an extra in Howard the Duck, so I guess it's time for a comeback

Hoping this at least results in Star Wars Land going into Hollywood Studios instead of Cars Land, and maybe, just maybe, the dropping of Avatar Land.

I'm with SL. Empire and Jedi are fun, but as films - they are crap. They would never have been hits as standalone movies.

I'm sure I need say nothing about the quality of the prequels.



I think ILM is the prize in the package (but how it it a competitor of Pixar, Ghoulish Delight?)


Star Wars still has lots of merchandising potential, especially if they make new films - which would, like the prequels, be excuses to generate merchandise sales. Still, the film library of two good franchises, one of which still has potential legs, is not worth 4 billion as I see it. Neither is ILM. I really don't understand this deal, but there's nowhere to go for the Star Wars franchise but up.

50 years later we are surprisingly getting good Bod movies again, so who know.

That said, what interest I've ever ha in Star Wars (always preferred Star Trek) has long since crumbled to dust. Maybe it can be revived but I don't care if it isnt.

I'm a pretty big Star Wars fan, but I wish this sleeping dog had just been let lie.

Disney's seriously angling for the geek market these days, aren't they? Seems to me their next best move would be to go after Blizzard.

(But forms a protective human barricade around the BBC headquarters just in case)

They aren't. I had Rango in mind, which while flawed was quite good and beautiful. But that's all they've done in terms of animated feature, so not exactly a competitor. Consider that aspect retracted.

Maybe we'll get a Star Wars or Raiders ride out of the deal?