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Disney acquiring LucasFilm for 4.05 billion dollars
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Escape Goat
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Does that blue avatar guy have a name? i dont remember any of the characters names. Sigourney Weaver and uh...the male model guy.
So, how's your new overlord, Xia? Do you like it better than the old overlord?
Jobs' trust owns under 8%. (Still a huge stake).
That's what i thought. With ILM thrown in as well, what a bargain.
I mean if it got as much hype as Avatar did. Episode 7 just by itself would pay for this acquisition.
I really would have thought this entire takeover would be a least 6-7B. Maybe no-one wanted to pay that much even though to me it seems like it is worth that amount on paper.
Very interesting.
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James P Sullivan
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Not as popular as it once was? No shit.
Shit enough not to be worth a cut of $4 billion, film rights, merchandising rights and stuff to put into their theme parks? :lol
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Pollux
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Haha I'm stealing this for a Facebook status
Maybe George Lucas wanted the money quickly? Also Disney may have convinced him that they would be the best company for his franchise going forward.
King of the Potato People
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Interesting, I would be up for a reboot of Indiana Jones well if they found a charismatic enough lead. Bond can survive through several great actors.
WyndhamPrice
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According to the conference call they have no plans for Indy for the foreseeable future due to the partial ownership by Paramount.
It sucks, I know. I still think we'll get another Indy movie sometime in the next few years but not by Disney.
Doesn't he have a few?
Disney and Paramount would have to play nice
XiaNaphryz
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I'm sure he'll comfort himself with his $8 billion.
Razgriz-Specter
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Wonder if Disney will pimp Indiana Jones harder at its parks. I know Hollywood Studios already has the stunt show and alot of merchandise but I wouldn't mind seeing it pushed harder.
Anticitizen One
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Iger made it sound like Indiana Jones is stuck in the same spot as Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, and X-Men. Paramount has that shit on lock.
I doubt we will ever see another Harrison Ford Indiana Jones movie. Most likely a cartoon and eventually a reboot.
devildog820
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Same with the original trilogy. Fox has that. But I'd bet Fox would put out original blu-rays in a heartbeat to cash in.
The great thing about all this news is that Lucas loses primary creative control.
Razgriz-Specter
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oh, I thought that was just specifically movies.
fuuu a semi serious Indy cartoon(BTAS, Young Justice, Mystery Incorporated) could be great.
Don't forget ILM, Skywalker Sound, and the Indiana Jones franchise.
Agreed. Good buy for Disney. Looking forward to the new Star Wars movies , I think Disney will do a good job on them.
Future Foundation
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Has anyone brought up Star Wars + Cosmic Marvel yet? Saw quite a bit of pleading for it on Twitter.
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Star Wars has still been a very very strong merchandising arm. There's still tons of toys. LEGO alone has been a huge hit not just in toy form, but the videogames.
Marty Chinn
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Except the animated series isn't shit; it's far from it. Clone Wars is actually good Star Wars and anyone who is saying otherwise really hasn't watched the series all the way through. It's good stuff. It even says something when they don't have to rely on the Jedi, Sith, or principle characters to still have great episodes.
I like the idea of him giving them the general story he had in mind and letting everyone else do the real work of expanding upon it and putting it on screen. Being rid of Lucas is good but I just hope it doesn't turn into a lightsaber orgy and generic sci-fi. I still want the focus on mythology and adventure that the first three films had. In particular the mythology and building up of the universe need to be front and center, not lame jokes and special effects that don't age well. I understand that no one will capture that magic again but I hope they try.
AgentChris
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There won't be another actor like Harrison Ford ever again; so I can't see a reboot of the Indy franchise. I'd like to see an animated Indy with the likeness of a young Harrison Ford though...
I could live with that, who would do the voice though? We'd have to have Harrison Ford record every possible line just in case.
TAJ
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They don't fully control Star Wars. Fox still has distribution rights on the existing ones.
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AgentChris
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I remember reading about some tech that could database the voice recordings of older or deceased actors and use them in new ways; I think...
DanteFox
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Signing his dream away...
so that's what that looks like.
He's going to be a consultant.
It will depend on how much control Kathleen Kennedy is given I suppose, since she said in a clip earlier that she'd keep Lucas onboard as much as possible for future Star Wars films (also he said he has notes and such sketched out)
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
But it sounds like they are in a position to give Fox permission to do that.
And it's pretty common for studios to go in together on home video products. Like the Mel Brooks Collection from Fox has Blazing Saddles, which is owned by WB.
I still wonder how the new trilogy would have been if George hadn't become a dictator at Lucasfilm and had full control and resources to make them the way he did. When you have nobody to challenge you creatively then you're going to get a lot of weird shit that makes people go, "huh" as seen in the prequels....I guess the same thing kind of goes financially as well. I mean, it was Star Wars so he could just do anything he wanted to at the time, because he had the money and the clout to do so. Yeah, money buys you A listers, pretty sets, and CGI, but I would think it also means you can take a lot more shortcuts, and you use your ingenuity a lot less as a director...
I don't know, I don't like talking about the prequels to much as I usually just repeat what Red Letter Media has said for the most part. They basically covered everything perfectly, and I agree with them on the prequels completely.
Razgriz-Specter
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If they couldn't get Ford I don't think it would be that hard to find someone with a good enough voice.
I don't recall any Han or Indy voice from games that were awful.
Bjoern the Smexy
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I'm waking up and THIS is what will be on my mind all day.
Fuck.
Fuck.
ReturnOfTheRAT
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Opinions, everyone has one.
I think the quality of episodes I, II & III are close to a universal fact, than opinion now
Haha. I hate the prequels more than most but Star Wars a shit IP? In which universe?
Star Wars merchandizing/PIXAR movie merchandizing/Disney movie merchandizing/Marvel merchandizing/Disney Princess merchandizing under one direction means that Disney now has every first world couple with kids locked down for years. Multiple billions of dollars each year. Cars alone has done well over four billions in merchandizing and it's one of dozens of IPs that Disney has. And that's not giving any consideration to anything other than merchandizing.
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