Omnimaga
General Discussion => Other Discussions => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on October 30, 2012, 09:20:04 pm
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So as most of you must have heard already, Disney apparently bought or plans to buy Lucasfilm. While Disney did some nice stuff in the past, it's not like they have a very good reputation online because people feel their newer stuff is not as great as their older stuff. I personally wasn't much into newer Disney stuff so I can't judge, but in the past I saw companies buying franchises or other companies only to run them into the ground afterward. Also isn't Disney more oriented towards family-oriented movies? I hope that won't make new Star Wars cheesier or featuring easily guessable storyline events, or worse: literally turn the franchise into a kid show and also go on a copyright rampage on Youtube like they apparently like to do...
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I texted my friend immediately when i found out, who's a huge movie buff and at film school currently. His response:
they couldn't fuck it up any worse, right?
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I'm expecting whatever they make in the Star Wars universe to be complete garbage.
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Orc Mickey in space! O.O
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I'm not a fan of The Clone Wars and didn't watched it much, but I expect future Star Wars projects to be probably similar.
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I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt until the next movie, but I really have concerns about them totally destroying it. Heck, what if they even dare changing the long-classic intro theme to something else? It would be a total outrage among fans. Plus if they actually have the balls to change the theme, I have fears about how the new one would be. Maybe something like this:
I seriously don't want Star Wars to turn into a cheesy Power Rangers-like super hero movie where the main guy never get close to lose.
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Well, don’t be too afraid.
I haven’t heard anything about it, but they might just be buying the funding and profit rights to it, or they might be buying the planning and such rights.
Disney also bought Marvel, or maybe just marvel movies, but they don’t create the movies, or put the castle before it, and Avenger was pretty hipster anyway
They bought Pixar, and plan and create family friendly movies, and put their logo before it.
So it might be like Marvel, and stay the same, with Disney doing the accounting
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Would Gorge Lucas allow that? I mean, he fought to be independent with star wars.
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Lucas is on as creative consultant, but I'm not expecting much from him...
If Disney manages to get a decent director on this, there might be hope (John Lasseter would be great)...Or not...
Also it just occured to me that if they continue with each movie theme/title alternating between sith/jedi (1.phantom menace 2. attack of the clones 3. revenge of the sith 4. a new hope 5. empire strikes back 6. return of the jedi), then this trilogy (yes, they are thinking about 8,9) will end on a "sith movie"...So either they're going to break the pattern (lame) or end the trilogy on a sith "victory" (also lame, and then what, 10, 11, 12?)
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One thing I really hope, though, is that under Disney they are not as demanding for theater standards. Due to either limitations or requesting a too high percentage of theater revenues, my local theater (and most likely Juju's) refused to play Star Wars Episode III and they went very close from not playing Episode II (we finally got it later), and it sucked because there is no theater in Quebec City that is easily reachable via public transit (IMAX doesn't count either because it's about 1.5 hours of bus and it's sold out everytime).
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Maybe you can pre-oder tickets for your IMAX?
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I just read up on it. They're making another trilogy.
I looked on Wikipedia, and apparently they're throwing in fictional fictional starwars history, instead of factual fictional starwars history.
I'm most likely not going to watch it, just like how I've waited six years for the hobbit but probably won't watch it because its a Trilogy with fictional female characters
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Maybe you can pre-oder tickets for your IMAX?
Yeah we can, although I tend to prefer buying them not too long in advance in case I finally prefer to go to the theater another day instead (especially if I am sick)
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Well, in my opinion star wars is awesome, and always stays awesome, so i'm looking forward to the new movies! :D
EDIT: Link for all who are to lazy to look it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_VII
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_sequel_trilogy
Kinda interesting to read about what Lucas thought about this. In the 70s he was like, lol 12 movies, then, lol a 3rd trilogy not gonna happen, he was pretty categoric until 2012, and then today he unexpectedly changes ideas.
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Well, in my opinion star wars is awesome, and always stays awesome, so i'm looking forward to the new movies!
Well, maybe for you, but I'm a huge diehard mega fan of the Yuuzhan Vong war, and the civil war that follows, so they better not change that, but they will.
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Well, in my opinion star wars is awesome, and always stays awesome, so i'm looking forward to the new movies!
Well, maybe for you, but I'm a huge diehard mega fan of the Yuuzhan Vong war, and the civil war that follows, so they better not change that, but they will.
they will change the other CANON stuff like yuuzhan-vong war? O.O ok, then it really depends on how it'll turn out
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I think so, because the plans for the trilogy sound a bit different than any I've heard of.
It's 20 years later, Luke confront the emperor, not the clone, but for the first time I think it said. He has some other sister, and a love interest that it did not say was Mara jade.
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Will the new trilogy be starring Hannah Montana?
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Nope, only captiain jack sparrow and william turner
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It sounds like its having the same old actors :(
Which is awkward, especially since Princess Leia is old and a little heavier, much more than the real starwars had her.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_sequel_trilogy#section_1
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I don't think because harisson ford already didn't want to make episode 6
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When I heard about this on IRC earlier today my first thought was of Disney making a really awful sequel to the series, but maybe it'll be good. Gotta wait and see.
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I heard it was all going to be CG
And didn't Star Wars already end as we knew it?
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Darn, if the trend continues, live action movies will stop existing entirely, actors will lose their jobs and everything will just be CG. No more cartoon/anime/live action stuff D:
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Well, Mark Hamill has been doing voice acting lately... D:
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Star Wars Episode I was the end of Star Wars as we know it.
I look back and to see not only how lame the newer episodes are when compared to the old, but the general difference in the universe.
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I didn't really mind Episode 1 through 3 but when Episode 1 came out I indeed noticed how different it was. Some people like my mom complained about how fewer space fights there were compared to the movies from the 70's and 80's.
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It's because George Lucas Directed the newest three that they sucked.
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I thought he directed Episode 4 through 6 too, along with every Star Wars shows since the very beggining? ??? (Heck, it even said LucasFilms or something before their intro, even before they were remade in the '90s)
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No, they didn't let him direct the first two, just episode 6. Luckily that one wasn't completely horrible. It wasn't as good as the first though.
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I guess it prolly caught the trend where sequels adds less actioney stuff and more emotionaley stuff.
inb4 it turns into The Young and the Restless
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Somehow I didn't find Episode 1 through 2 that bad personally. I guess it depends of tastes. I myself didn't have the chance to see all of the first movies because they always aired too late at night when I was young and the first movie I saw in its entirety was Episode 1. I could notice the drastic differences, though, and that it wasn't as great as 4-6. However I still liked them. However I wonder if that will be the case with Episode 7-9. If people found 4-6 horrible, then imagine with 7-9
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1-3 wasnt bad it was just so different from the star wars before it and most people dont like that change. I hope they stay with canon because some of the stuff that happens in the books later on would be pretty awesome in movies(Yuuzhan Vong war...). I'm not sure if disney would allow that dark of a movie to happen though.
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I'm actually pretty excited. Star Wars needs some fresh blood and Disney might be the ones to do it. They also bought Marvel a while ago, and tons of great things have been coming from there.
Darn, if the trend continues, live action movies will stop existing entirely, actors will lose their jobs and everything will just be CG. No more cartoon/anime/live action stuff D:
Even in the case of CG movies you still need actors to voice the characters and breathe life into them. ;)
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episode 9 should be released 2019
notice that it is 42 years from the first star wars
that must have some larger meaning XD
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I'm actually pretty excited. Star Wars needs some fresh blood and Disney might be the ones to do it. They also bought Marvel a while ago, and tons of great things have been coming from there.
Darn, if the trend continues, live action movies will stop existing entirely, actors will lose their jobs and everything will just be CG. No more cartoon/anime/live action stuff D:
Even in the case of CG movies you still need actors to voice the characters and breathe life into them. ;)
inb4 vocaloids
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So, aparently they are looking for cast world-wide! :)
http://www.opencastingcall2013.com/
EDIT: wow, legit 1-year necro O.O
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Interesting. I still hope they don't ruin the franchise. Granted, it has already suffered with the Episode 1 through 3 movies and some of the extras added to the originals, but IMHO the movies were still enjoyable.
I still also hope that the switch to Disney will end the embargo that Cinéma Des Chutes and Cinéma Lido instated due to Lucasfilms asking a way too high percentage of the profits, so that me and Juju no longer have to do a two hour bus trip in the middle of nowhere (some place in Quebec City that is next to impossible to reach without a car) to see a Star Wars movie in a theater.
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Well, I don't think that they will mess up the movies.
First of all, too many people are waiting for this, they know what the people want.
Second, disney also released some pretty good movies (avangers, anybody?) and didn't screw 'em up
Third, money
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The only worry I have is that since it's Disney, which was historically aimed at a children or family audience, they might make the Star Wars movies way too politically-correct such as removing almost every trace of violence.
Here is a parody of what would be Halo if it was made by Nintendo:
Let's hope that Star Wars doesn't turn into this. :P
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Looking back I'd say so far Disney didn't screw up at all!
If you missed the second teaser, it is here:
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Well, it's JJ Abrams after all