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Well it can't be worse than the mouse house's own Tron Legacy.
Havent they whored out this franchise enou-
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Only Chewie, C 3 PO and R 2 D 2 can be kept the same, really.
Not to mention Ford wants nothing to do with it.
I'm just hoping it's all a clever lie and they do something completely unexpected.
Fat chance of that happening. I'm voting nay on confidence of following the EU. Not only is it a mess, but they won't care.
As for the sale overall I am glad. Pessimistic about a movie every 3 years...
Kathleen Kennedy was an executive producer for Back To The Future and Jurassic Park, too of my favorite movies. Good. (reads imdb filmography). Also produced The Last Airbender. Not good.
Personally, I thought more Star Wars movies were inevitable, but I didn't expect plans to show up until well after George Lucas retired.
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Every time a fairy says that it doesn't believe in humans, a human child dies.I'll give the new movies a chance, but I don't know if I'll ever consider them part of my personal Star Wars canon to be honest. I'm just too attached to George being at the helm. It just doesn't feel like Star Wars without him, to me.
It makes sense to pass it on to Disney, though. They've always been the most prominent player in wholesome family entertainment and they generally do a good job of re-releasing their classics.
2 things: One, this either has the potential to be very good or very bad.
Two: They'll need to base this on some kind of Expanded Universe thing, because I doubt anyone from the prequels will return to do something. Then again the Yuuzhan Vong would probably be traumatic to kids, Legacy probably would too, the Clone Wars already has a cartoon and direct-to-video movie in addition to the miniseries...
The worst case scenario though is it ends up like Red Tails, where the director is some Lucas Sycophant and it has his fingerprints all over it.
These are the words that shall come from my mouth. I shall be known for speaking them.How could anyone from the prequels come back, though? All their characters are dead.
I guess Liam Neeson as a Force ghost might be able to do a voiceover or make an appearance, though — he certainly seemed willing to collaborate with Lucasfilm for the Clone Wars television series.
I loved Qui-Gon so I hope that happens.
Imagine all the wookiees...
Oh, wait, nevermind. Sorry, couldn't help myself.
I'm of the belief its likely they'll just retcon some of the post-movies EU to make room for the new movies (if it really is post-Episode 6). That, or like I said its really Knights of the Old Republic, which can only end in delicious fan rage.
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In other news, what the friggin' fudge Disney? 1984 much? Anyway, I really don't think there's any possible way to outdo the clusterfuck that is Midichlorians ...right?
I doubt we'll see any of the "racier" parodies of Star Wars anymore though. Disney's always been pretty obsessive about keeping their image squeaky clean, it seems to me.
I mean, can you imagine them approving Robot Chicken Star Wars? The parody of the Anakin-Padmé fireplace scene and the moment of Luke and Leia in bed together would get it denied approval.

....Does this all mean its possible we'll get a Steven Spielberg directed Star Wars movie now?
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