Topic: Disney buys Star Wars

[Vampire Killer]

I'm really excited about the possibilities. I mean, I doubt it's possible to screw up the series worse than Lucas already has.

[Gunlord]

Like I said on Facebook, maybe if they stick to the Expanded Universe it won't be so bad. Can't go wrong with Thrawn, right?

[beingthehero]

The only thing from the expanded universe that I'm familiar with are the Dark Forces games. I guess I should count myself lucky.

Anyways here's to a GRIM GRITTY Disney reboot or something.

[TheouAegis]

Disney isn't all kid-friendly. One of the biggest steps toward notoriety Disney made in recent years (aside from the legacy of Tron and Black Hole) is when they picked up distribution rights from Studio Ghibli. For Disney to accept a contract that stipulates they cannot edit Studio Ghibli's films beyond synching lips was a big step away from what people normally consider Disney kitsch: Tanuki flailing their testicles about in Pom Poko, for one example that caught a lot of people off guard. And Princess Mononoke blew the minds of the uninitiated -- decapitations, disarming (literally), a girl sucking blood out of a bullet wound, a giant boar with gore dangling under its belly and coughing up copious amounts of blood, and giant wolf attacking numerous humans with its disembodied bloodied head. Princess Mononoke was nothing like anything Disney ever released before and yet it bore the Disney label. I don't know if Walt would have ever gone for that, but the Disney of today isn't the Disney of our childhoods.

[Lashen]

Should I witness Prince Xizor—as told by Disney/Pixar—no one will be safe.

[crisis]

No Prince Xizor, no Thrawn; the next movie(s) will feature a completely original story that's not tied to any Expanded Universe novels/characters:

http://m.superherohype.com/news/articles/173435-the-new-star-wars-trilogy-will-an-original-story

[VladCT]

So is it going to be another continuity reboot?

[X]

Disney isn't all kid-friendly. One of the biggest steps toward notoriety Disney made in recent years (aside from the legacy of Tron and Black Hole) is when they picked up distribution rights from Studio Ghibli

And don't forget all those classic black & White cartoons like the Skeleton Dance. People today might find it a bit morbid but I thought it was funny. And you also have that one Mickey Mouse cartoon that has Pluto dog-napped by some mad scientist who looks like Rasputin and Mickey has to go through his castle of torture to save him, but ends up being tied down to a self-mobile surgical bed awaiting his very own dissection.

[Abnormal Freak]

Disney isn't all kid-friendly. One of the biggest steps toward notoriety Disney made in recent years (aside from the legacy of Tron and Black Hole) is when they picked up distribution rights from Studio Ghibli. For Disney to accept a contract that stipulates they cannot edit Studio Ghibli's films beyond synching lips was a big step away from what people normally consider Disney kitsch: Tanuki flailing their testicles about in Pom Poko, for one example that caught a lot of people off guard. And Princess Mononoke blew the minds of the uninitiated -- decapitations, disarming (literally), a girl sucking blood out of a bullet wound, a giant boar with gore dangling under its belly and coughing up copious amounts of blood, and giant wolf attacking numerous humans with its disembodied bloodied head. Princess Mononoke was nothing like anything Disney ever released before and yet it bore the Disney label. I don't know if Walt would have ever gone for that, but the Disney of today isn't the Disney of our childhoods.

Disney have dropped the ball in regard to less kid-friendly Ghibli films, however. They don't have Grave of the Fireflies and I believe they allowed their rights to Mononoke to expire, and it looks like other films they're licensing to other distributors; From Up on Poppy Hill will be brought to DVD/Blu-ray by GKIDS, who also hold theatrical distribution rights to a lot of Ghibli films. (They're actually doing a two-week Ghibli marathon here soon, 35mm prints and mostly subbed. Definitely gonna hit up some favorites and ones I haven't seen, like Pom Poko and Only Yesterday.)

[A-Yty]

Hokiest, shattiest special effects ever. I hope no one ever attempts that again.

Indeed.

Only good example of this I can think of CGI youthfulness is Patrick Stewart in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. And that hardly counts because this is Patrick Stewart we're talking about.

[Abnormal Freak]

What a dapper man.

http://picardpervert.ytmnd.com/

[A-Yty]

I bet he wears those glasses only to create the illusion that time somehow affects him.

[TheCruelAngel]

While it's a little sad to see the expanded universe is going to be ignored (though I never really believed they would be used anyway), I think a trilogy set in a farther future than the original trilogy could be kind of cool and definitely would allow for a lot of neat mechanical designs. Without regard to looking "too futuristic" like in the prequel I hope they let their imaginations run wild and we get some really memorable and forward thinking designs.

[Lashen]

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[Ratty]

What a dapper man.

http://picardpervert.ytmnd.com/

The love of archaeology & history and affinity for outdated tech like paper books, slight Scottish twang to the speech even though he's supposedly of French origin. It all makes sense now, Picard is the Highlander!

Or, well, one of them anyway.