I honestly never planned on ever posting anything other than reviews of movies I've personally watched, but I guess since this related to movies, I should post this brand new news in here. I supposed I just wanted to remember the day they killed the Star Wars franchise.
Disney just bought LucasArts and LucasFilms for a bit over US$ 4 billion and they already announced Star Wars: Episode VII for 2015. And they'll make Episode VIII and IX as well, not to mention they plan on making a new Star Wars movie every 2-3 years after Episode 9.
George Lucas had this to say about the acquisition: "I've always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime. I'm confident that with LucasFilm under the leadership of Kathleen Kennedy, and having a new home within the Disney organization, Star Wars will certainly live on and flourish for many generations to come..."
It seems like Star Wars is going to be just like James Bond, sticking around forever with new characters every couple of new years. Would you have a problem seeing a new face associated with being "Luke Skywalker" every couple of years, like we already do with James Bond?
Disney is on a roll. It spent $7.4 billion on the purchase of animated movie studio Pixar in 2006 and also $4.2 billion with the acquisition of comic book giant Marvel in 2009, and now $4.05 billion with LucasFilms/LucasArts.
I like Star Wars, not as much as Star Trek or Star Gate, and I can't help but wonder how good the future Star War movies will end up being without having George Lucas directing/producing them. A new actor being Luke or Vader every couple of years? Or perhaps they'll completely remove any reference to Luke and Vader and every beloved character and add new ones? It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
Does George Lucas seem like a happy man after having sold his company to Disney? You decide:
EDIT: Someone posted this comment in some website and I thought it was an awesome casting possibility (/sarcasm off):
Directed by Michael Bay
Ashton Kutcher is Han Solo (the sad part is that it's got a REAL chance of that happening)
Miley Cyrus is Leia
Justin Bieber is Luke Skywalker
Jaden Smith is Lando Calrisssian
Michael Cera is C3P0
Honey Boo Boo is R2D2
and Snooki as Yoda
EDIT #2: Someone posted the best argument ever to counter the whole "Lucas sold my childhood for 4 billion dollars" comments, and it was:
No matter what, George Lucas just won every argument ever. He's donating the money from the sale to charity.
"Oh, you're sad because I made movies that didn't live up to your childhood memories? Well I just gave enough money to charity to educate every child you'll ever know."
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