A dark, gritty Star Wars movie (no gore needed at all, the books already have plenty of unsettling/intense material) directed by Blomkamp could be too much for me to cope.my list of directors to immediately contact:
neill blomkamp
rian johnson
ridley scott (?!?!)
So everything happening after ROTJ is pretty much covered in the EU going forward nearly 50 years without much room for breaks.
Is this just going to shit all over that or follow it?
The EU always respected that the prequels were off limits and no books were written in that time period until Lucas did the prequels. I have a bad feeling Disney will not respect EU as Canon.
Just read this on AICN
This cant seriously be true
Holy shit. $4.05 Billion payed half with cash and the other half with Disney shares.
$2 billion dollars in cash.
Cash.
George Lucas is getting FOUR BILLION DOLLARS, man. Half of that is in cash. CASH. That's 2 thousand million dollars.
Just read this on AICN
This cant seriously be true
So when will we get Spider-man meets Luke Skywalker crossover?
JJ Abrams and Joss Whedon need to co-direct it. Would be the perfect mix of lore/information/deepness and pure enjoyment.
Please no
I think you need to go see what the last movie took in world wide. It did a lot, but not a billion dollars.
George Lucas is getting FOUR BILLION DOLLARS, man. Half of that is in cash. CASH. That's 2 thousand million dollars. Most of the world will never, ever see that type of money, and he gets to deposit a check that has 12 zeros before the decimal. What's cray cray about it, is that a large portion of that is going to be in Disney stock. What do you think is going to happen to Disney stock after this news hit? His lineage will that rockafeller money for generations to come.
Mr. Lucas is a stupidly wealthy man that got out right around the time that he wanted to, and has the capital to create absolutely anything he wants. I'm sure he's comfortable with what he's letting go.
That's 99% of why I'm so excited about this news.Well as long as Lucas isn't working on them they can't be as bad as Episode 1, right?
is it just me, or is 4 billion almost nothing?
Why are people upset over this?
Disney is one of the few places that i would have complete faith in when it comes to releasing new Star Wars content. The fact it's no longer 100% under the man who shall not be named control anymore is the best news ever.
ILM has got to be worth 4 billion alone... yeah it seems kind of cheap for the whole package.
The most important thing in this news is: "It's now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers. I've always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime."
REAL DIRECTORS ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO MAKE STAR WARS MOVIES
Doesn't Disney already have Star Wars shit at their parks? Never been to one.
Listening to the conference call they've said their sole reason for purchasing LucasFilm was to own the Star Wars brand in order to make films. Other LucasFilm properties are just a bonus.