Disney Buys Lucasfilm for $4 Billion

innerSpaceman · 10-30-2012, 03:25 PM

BTW, Lucas did not have any grand design when he was making "5" and "6". He made up Darth Vader being Luke's father well after Star Wars was completed, and otherwise used stuff that was in his original long draft of the bloated and frankly crappy script to fill in the action bits of the O.T. episodes (which is why there's, um, another Death Star to destroy in Episode 6 - - that was the end of the story, and I'm kinda glad he didn't make something else up).

I'm more excited over this news in relation to Disneyland than new Star Wars movies. Maybe there will be some new attractions that are not barely-repeatable films. As for future films, I'm glad Lucas is out (except as a consultant), but I feel Disney will also stress the purportedly kid-appealing Jar-Jar-ish aspects of the series. So far, there's one work of classic genius, two sequels to that which are tons of fun, and three god-awful so-called "prequel" sequels that were made 16 years later and sucked ballz.

By the time so-called "7" is released, it will be 32 years after Episode 6 was released. How is that a recipe for quality? I don't think anything bodes well about this deal as far as future Star Wars movies goes.

But getting George Lucas out of the Star Wars business is a step in the right direction. And there's nowhere to go but up from where he left it. So I'm cautiously optimistic.

10-30-2012, 03:25 PM	#1
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	BTW, Lucas did not have any grand design when he was making "5" and "6". He made up Darth Vader being Luke's father well after Star Wars was completed, and otherwise used stuff that was in his original long draft of the bloated and frankly crappy script to fill in the action bits of the O.T. episodes (which is why there's, um, another Death Star to destroy in Episode 6 - - that was the end of the story, and I'm kinda glad he didn't make something else up). I'm more excited over this news in relation to Disneyland than new Star Wars movies. Maybe there will be some new attractions that are not barely-repeatable films. As for future films, I'm glad Lucas is out (except as a consultant), but I feel Disney will also stress the purportedly kid-appealing Jar-Jar-ish aspects of the series. So far, there's one work of classic genius, two sequels to that which are tons of fun, and three god-awful so-called "prequel" sequels that were made 16 years later and sucked ballz. By the time so-called "7" is released, it will be 32 years after Episode 6 was released. How is that a recipe for quality? I don't think anything bodes well about this deal as far as future Star Wars movies goes. But getting George Lucas out of the Star Wars business is a step in the right direction. And there's nowhere to go but up from where he left it. So I'm cautiously optimistic.
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