Less than three years after buying Marvel for $4 billion, The Walt Disney Company has announced it will acquire Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion in cash and stock. With the news arrives word of a new Star Wars movie for 2015.
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View Poll Results: Star Wars 7 director?
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Steven Spielberg (Friend of Lucas, has often come close to directing a SW)
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George Lucas again
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David Lynch (Almost directed ROTJ)
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David Filoni (director of Clone Wars movie and series)
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Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Trilogy)
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Joss Whedon (Serenity, Avengers, various TV series)
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J. J Abrams (Star Trek, Super 8, various TV series)
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Frank Darabont (Almost directed TPM)
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Kathleen Kennedy (Basically is co-chair of Lucasfilm)
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Gendy Tartovsky (The original Clone Wars micro series, various TV series and Hotel Transylvania)
4 4.60% -
Brad Bird (Incredibles, Mission Impossible IV)
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Francis Ford Copolla (Godfather trilogy & friend of Lucas)
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Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings trilogy)
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Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrynth, Hellboy)
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others
4 4.60%
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10-30-2012, 01:19 PM #1Mild-Mannered Reporter
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Disney Buys Lucasfilm, Announces New "Star Wars" Movie For 2015
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10-30-2012, 01:24 PM #2BANNED
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Begin merging threads in 3, 2, 1....
this is nuts! wish I had stock in Disney right now!
Any chance of Whedon writing/directing SW7 after he's done with Avengers???
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10-30-2012, 01:26 PM #3BANNED
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10-30-2012, 01:28 PM #4Senior Member
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So Star Wars Episode 7 is now a thing. According to the release on Disney's official website, it sounds like Lucas himself will only be a creative consultant. That seems to suggest that there will be people in place to overrule Lucas if he creatively consults something that's really stupid.
This gives me a flicker of hope.
Also, Disney will make up that 4 billion dollars in no time.Last edited by SephirothDZX; 10-30-2012 at 01:30 PM.
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10-30-2012, 01:28 PM #5Veteran Member
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Hell of a golden parachute there George....
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10-30-2012, 01:29 PM #6Giving by Taking...
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Cool enough. Could certainly make for some interesting new material.
I'm just finding the jokes tiring already.
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10-30-2012, 01:29 PM #7Member
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Ok. Tell me I aint the only one that just had this image pop into their heads....
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10-30-2012, 01:31 PM #8Space Vixen
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Not alone man.
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10-30-2012, 01:31 PM #9They LAUGHED at my theory
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VADER VS. DOOM Now, before the moment passes.
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Holy crap ... I'm actually very excited by this. Hopefully they can keep a high level of quality with the new films a la "Clone Wars" cartoon series.
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MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Cyclops ad portas
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10-30-2012, 01:32 PM #12Space Vixen
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I suddenly have this image of Mickey Mouse with a lightsaber Originally Posted by Flyattractor
Ok. Tell me I aint the only one that just had this image pop into their heads....
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10-30-2012, 01:32 PM #13Junior Member
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Does that mean no more Star Wars Clone Wars on Cartoon Network :(
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10-30-2012, 01:32 PM #14Senior Member
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Quote from the Disney release:
Well, that doesn't exactly fuel my small flicker of hope.In 2015, we're planning to release Star Wars Episode 7 – the first feature film under the "Disney-Lucasfilm" brand. That will be followed by Episodes 8 and 9 – and our long term plan is to release a new Star Wars feature film every two to three years.
Also, does this mean we'll get a Star Wars world in Kingdom Hearts 3?Eh, Comics is a pretty cool guy...
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10-30-2012, 01:33 PM #15Ultimate Mod!
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I'm curious where they'll go with Episode 7 and beyond. I'm sure they'll do a trilogy, because why wouldn't you? But I don't know enough about the EU, especially in the post-RotJ time period to know what might come next.
It would certainly be odd if they were to recast Luke, Leia, and Han though. I'm sure there's plenty of other major characters that come along, but I could see them trying to stick with what everyone already knows.I like Ultimate Comics. - Read them with us!
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