Happy Star Wars Day

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It's the same day as "Loser Living in Parents Basement Playing with A Lightsaber" day. Must be a coincidence. :)

[dando]

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-Kevin

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^^^ from that to security guard to child molestor and/or serial killer. A natural progression. :gomer:

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A new hope...


George Lucas Just Saved Star Wars by Firing George Lucas

So at long last, George Lucas has decided to get out of the moviemaking business. He’s selling out Lucasfilm, including all of its properties and moneymaking storylines, to the [Disney for $4 billion]. This is a good thing. Maybe even a great thing.

To understand why, we need to back up a bit to understand more about who George Lucas is and who he isn’t. And here’s the first step I’d like you to take before we go any further: banish from your head any assumption that George Lucas even likes Star Wars. Assume, for the sake of argument, that he doesn’t like it at all.

http://acculturated.com/2012/10/31/george-lucas-just-saved-star-wars-by-firing-george-lucas/

Star Wars 7? A new film every 2-3 years?
I think Disney is having visions...:tony:

[TravelGal]

A new hope...

Star Wars 7? A new film every 2-3 years?
I think Disney is having visions...:tony:

I thought the article was as overblown and repetitive as the prequels it pans. It does make me feel better that I never bothered to watch any of them however. Even the trailers seemed boring or bizarre.

The original idea for Star Wars was to have 9 films. The first trilogy was the middle one. After a hiatus of a few years, Lucas got the prequels going. Supposedly next would be the epilogue films. I was glad he gave up before that happened. I could never imagine how they could pull that off but then I could never have imagined Star Wars in the first place. My worry about Disney is that they will all be the same. Like the stories/heroes/heroines of the animated features. Insipid and indistinguishable one from the other.

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The Police Academy movies come to mind. :p

Star Wars 7: Jedis On Patrol

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JJ Abrams to direct new Star Wars movie.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/j-j-abrams-to-direct-new-star-wars-movie-for-disney/

He's a good choice to sell lots of tickets and make lots of money, if you're into that type of thing. :p

The majority opinion is that he made Star Trek better (:yuck:), but with Star Wars Lucas has already set the expectations so low there's no place to go but up. Maybe Abrams can work in some time travel. :gomer:

[dando]

The Police Academy movies come to mind. :p


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Easy opening can. :gomer: :D

-Kevin

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Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger said Tuesday that screenwriters Larry Kasdan and Simon Kinberg are working on stand-alone "Star Wars" movies that aren't part of the new trilogy.

http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Disney-working-on-stand-alone-Star-Wars-films-4253723.php

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Maybe they could do one about a young Hans Solo cruising the streets of a small Tatooine farm town looking to drag race the fastest land speeder in town.

Or a drama about the time Princess Leia stalked an ex-boyfriend and his brother as they struggled to pay the Imperial taxes on their childhood academy.

[Napoleon]

Defense Nerds Strike Back: A Symposium on the Battle of Hoth (https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/a-cold-war-conundrum/source.htm)

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Maybe they could do one about a young Hans Solo cruising the streets of a small Tatooine farm town looking to drag race the fastest land speeder in town.

Or a drama about the time Princess Leia stalked an ex-boyfriend and his brother as they struggled to pay the Imperial taxes on their childhood academy.

http://www.nerdist.com/2013/02/report-harrison-ford-to-return-as-han-solo-in-star-wars-episode-vii/

Harrison Ford to return as Han Solo? :thumbup: Perhaps they could make Winnie the Pooh the new Yoda. :gomer:

-Kevin

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http://www.nerdist.com/2013/02/report-harrison-ford-to-return-as-han-solo-in-star-wars-episode-vii/

Harrison Ford to return as Han Solo? :thumbup: Perhaps they could make Winnie the Pooh the new Yoda. :gomer:

-Kevin

I was really hoping they weren't actually going through with Lucas' 30 years later sequels. I would have preferred they use younger actors and do some of the Star Wars novels set shortly after Return of the Jedi.

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I was really hoping they weren't actually going through with Lucas' 30 years later sequels. I would have preferred they use younger actors and do some of the Star Wars novels set shortly after Return of the Jedi.

I was very surprised to see this, as what I had read previously the next series was going to diverge from the previous trilogies. I can stomach Ford as long as there is no Jar-Jar Binks character in the new series.

-Kevin

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I was very surprised to see this, as what I had read previously the next series was going to diverge from the previous trilogies. I can stomach Ford as long as there is no Jar-Jar Binks character in the new series.

-Kevin

I expect the stories will be about Han and Leia's kids. Hopefully I will be pleasantly surprised.

Edit: Luke Skywalker's offspring is what I meant to say. The father and son storyline carried forward another generation. The books cover Han and Leia's kids pretty well.

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http://www.deadline.com/2013/03/harrison-ford-carrie-fisher-mark-hamil-star-wars-episode-vii-george-lucas-suggests-they-are/

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SNL had some fun with this last night...balding Chewie. :D And a Jar-Jar Binks reference. Buried deep in the trove of Xmas crap I have a Jar-Jar ornament the wife bought for me years ago. She has no clue how annoying his character is. If you want it, I'll ship it for free. It hasn't made any of the 5-6 trees for years.

-Kevin

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How Disney Bought Lucasfilm—and Its Plans for 'Star Wars'

One weekend last October, Robert Iger, chief executive officer of Walt Disney (DIS), sat through all six Star Wars films. He’d seen them before, of course. This time, he took notes. Disney was in secret negotiations to acquire Lucasfilm, the company founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas, and Iger needed to do some due diligence.

The movies reacquainted Iger with Luke Skywalker, the questing Jedi Knight, and his nemesis Darth Vader, the Sith Lord who turns out to be (three-decade-old spoiler alert) his father. Beyond the movies, Iger needed to know Lucasfilm had a stockpile of similarly rich material—aka intellectual property—for more Star Wars installments. As any serious aficionado knows, there were always supposed to be nine. But how would Disney assess the value of an imaginary galaxy? What, for example, was its population?

As it turned out, Lucas had already done the cataloging. His company maintained a database called the Holocron, named after a crystal cube powered by the Force. The real-world Holocron lists 17,000 characters in the Star Wars universe inhabiting several thousand planets over a span of more than 20,000 years. It was quite a bit for Disney to process. So Lucas also provided the company with a guide, Pablo Hidalgo. A founding member of the Star Wars Fan Boy Association, Hidalgo is now a “brand communication manager” at Lucasfilm. “The Holocron can be a little overwhelming,” says Hidalgo, who obsesses over canonical matters such as the correct spelling of Wookiee and the definitive list of individuals who met with Yoda while he was hiding in the swamps of Dagobah.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-07/how-disney-bought-lucasfilm-and-its-plans-for-star-wars

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How Disney Bought Lucasfilm—and Its Plans for 'Star Wars'

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-07/how-disney-bought-lucasfilm-and-its-plans-for-star-wars


At first Lucas wouldn’t even turn over his rough sketches of the next three Star Wars films. When Disney executives asked to see them, he assured them they would be great and said they should just trust him. “Ultimately you have to say, ‘Look, I know what I’m doing. Buying my stories is part of what the deal is.’ I’ve worked at this for 40 years, and I’ve been pretty successful,” Lucas says.

[Lucas has] attended story meetings for the new film, adjudicating the physical laws and attributes of the Star Wars universe. “I mostly say, ‘You can’t do this. You can do that,’ ” Lucas says. “You know, ‘The cars don’t have wheels. They fly with antigravity.’ There’s a million little pieces. Or I can say, ‘He doesn’t have the power to do that, or he has to do this.’ I know all that stuff.”

That is why you fail.

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Happy Fourth y'all!


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