Disney buys Star Wars maker Lucasfilm from George Lucas

[conjamuk]

New Star Wars coming.. BBC News - Disney buys Star Wars maker Lucasfilm from George Lucas

 

[potentialeight]

Fuck yeah! I've always wished movies would be made out of the last three episodes.

 

[medicalhumor]

$4 Billion - that plus his social security check each month should be enough for George to retire on

 

[wikilinks]

Fuck! Yes!

 

[wikilinks]

PS - Holy shit, $4 fucking billion! Thats more than enough for old George'y to retire on!

 

[Reive]

Without Lucas the next Star Wars movie may actually be good.

 

[ShadowCaster]

Aw, I wish they'd revive LucasArts, those games were kick-ass..

 

[markbush]

They want release all "2-3 years a new star wars movie"... ?!

We will see.

 

[lukep]

Wow, there goes one of the very last private big-time studios. Disney bought out most everyone else already.

Episodes 7-9 coming soon boys! I've only been waiting for them since Return of the Jedi was in the theatres the first time...

 

[Medici]

PS - Holy shit, $4 fucking billion! Thats more than enough for old George'y to retire on!

pixar went for $7.8B. Also to disney

 

[thehobbster]

Aw, I wish they'd revive LucasArts, those games were kick-ass..

I played through Full-Throttle like 10 times!

 

[markbush]

And we all know what we will see, or?

 

[thelorax]

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[Incantation]

This reboot needs Christopher Nolan or JJ Abrams imo.

 

[bluechinagroup]

Wow, there goes one of the very last private big-time studios. Disney bought out most everyone else already.

Yeah the loss of a big private studio is my only regret, despite Lucas sucking really bad lately. Disney hasn't been that terrific lately either, but they do have their moments. I am fairly optimistic about the next 3 Star Wars films. They can only go up from here on out.

 

[iPwnNoobs]

star wars theme park coming soon! awesome.

 

[Veritas]

They are going to make so much money off this, easily 10 billion in a few years

 

[Rage9]

And we all know what we will see, or?

There are already like 8 billion different Star Wars offshoots including Family Guy and Robot Chicken in the animated circle I don't see how Star Wars Mickey would be much different (albeit less funny.)

At first I was like, well Disney is going to drowned it down it to a family friendly franchise until I remembered... it already is!

You'd think movies about dudes with light swords and space battles would be a bit more graphic but they really are pretty tame and family oriented in the first place. So it actually makes sense that Disney takes it over.

Sure Disney puts out a shitty movie once and a while but who doesn't? As Episode 1 showed (and it was pretty much a pile of shit) that if they aren't that good they'll still make a killing.

I guess that means all new Luke Skywalker but I guess after the last 3 bring it on!

 

[markbush]

Well, one guy here already mentioned our all hope - what was the best SW movie?
Right, the empire one - the one not directed by Lucas.

The second one was the movie starting the cult.
Lucas was the one starting Jar Jar Binks.

We love him starting it all - but his strength are ideas and bring them alive,
not to do them.

Thankfully he had no coding skills...

 

[Eldarion]

Lot of people are flipping out about this, but star wars has been so bad for so long I can't imagine disney having creative control being anything other than an improvement.