Avengers vs Star Wars anyone?

Correction: Disney will ruin Star Wars. Disney now have the rights to the Avengers, Star Wars and Indiana Jones. If you thought Hollywood was scraping the bottom of the barrel before, with Die Hard 5 and Independence Day 2, then think again.

I like Indy and Star Wars just as much as the next guy (for Star Wars, probably more), but I don't want to see any more movies. At least not yet. And not under the Disney flag. They own too much of the industry already - I'd like to see a little more variation thanks, Walt.

"Nothing goes down 'less I'm involved. No nuggets. No onion rings. No nothin'. A cheeseburger gets sold in the park, I want in! You got fat while we starved on the streets...now it's my turn!" -Harley Morenstein

They're just going to Disneyfy it a whole bunch. Although if the next Star Wars movie was a musical I would be very happy, I am just concerned that they will make it a really dumb action movie.
Don't sell your soul to Disney, that's what I always say.

Eh. Personally I don't have much interest in seeing more Star Wars films (unless they do something dramatic like... stop making every main character a magic space wizard). I'm not a big enough fan to cry that they're going to ruin the series either. I mean, there are seven million extended universe novels/comics/shorts/encyclopedias/icouldothisallday. Lucas has been anything but strict on keeping people outside the film productions from adding material to the series. Frankly, some of them have done a much better job than he (or any of the sequels) has done. It does worry me that Disney seems to be buying up so many established entertainment companies, but we can't really do anything about that.

I don't follow Marvel comics as much as I used to, but their film productions haven't dropped in quality since Disney acquired them. I think the idea of "Disnification" is more related to how franchises are marketed than how their productions are managed.

I don't think we can say for sure whether it's going to ruin Star Wars, because technically it's already been ruined (Phantom Menace anyone?).  I think a fresh look may actually benefit the franchise, and who knows, Episode VII may actually be tolerable...

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Nah, Phantom was almost entirely composed of politics and talking, Clones at least had more action and that Geonosis sequence.

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I too think that everyone is jumping the gun on amusing that this is going to be terrible, I had the same immediate reaction. Let's just step back and actually think about this for a little bit. Here's some points I'd like to bring up:

1. Disney has a decent record making movies that aren't the "Disney" stereotype. Pirates of the Caribbean is the best example. Also, Disney has owned Marvel for three years, meaning not only are they entirely responsible for the Avengers, they also had a hand in the new Spider Man. (Wildly successful revamp of a failed trilogy seeming relevant to anybody?) Oh, and Iron Man 3 looks absolutely incredible, if a little bit like The Dark Knight.

2. Disney has a lot of money. As seen by Avengers, they are very capable of bringing in good actors actors to fill roles, so it's not likely that we'll have a repeat of Anakin  the plank of wood.

3. George Lucas isn't just dropping Star Wars in Disney's lap and and washing his hands of the franchise. While he's officially retiring, he's still going to be involved in the process, and the movies are going to be made on story that he himself planned out when he wrote the rest of the Star Wars plot line, so the movies won't be plots written by entirely other people. He's also leaving behind senior leadership that has been around for awhile, and I would think the chance of these people letting Disney run in completely different direction is pretty slim, especially since they'll still be operating under the LucasFilm title.

I'm not saying that Disney won't ruin Star Wars, I'm saying that they have the resources that LucasFilm didn't have that if used correctly will allow Disney to give one of the greatest stories of all time the revitalization that it deserves. Like Gorge Lucas said in the press release, someone has to take over for him eventually. It might as well be while he can still give advice, and at least Disney has the ability to do a decent job. Whether they do succeed or the whole thing goes up in flames remains to be seen, but we shouldn't enter with preconceived notions that Disney will fail.

@Mickey: There is more to tell, George Lucas has planned on another three movies since before the first one was even made, he just never got around to it, probably because of Indiana Jones.

Last thing: The magic of the first three films will never again be fully achieved, I think most people realize that, but I refuse to criticize a film before it has even entered per-production.

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My concern is that given that fans have been able to play in George Lucas' world for the past 35 year, using the sound effects, playing with his characters, etc. will we get the same leniency from a massive powerhouse like Disney?  Can I post a video of two guys fighting with lightsabers and not get smacked with a cease and desist just because I'm using lightsaber sound make from Disney-owned Skywalker Sound?

I hope Disney will be smart about this as they were with Marvel.

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I hope that doesn't happen. I doubt it will, though, since KOTOR, TOR and TFU have been such huge mini-franchises for the company, and are so easily recognised by the current generation of fans. Besides, they've confirmed it all as official canon stuff - if anything, I think we can expect an Heir to the Empire movie, or someting around that period.

That's probably partially down to the fact that the Avengers had been mostly finished by the time Disney acquired Marvel, although the movie didn't escape completely unscathed. Here in the UK, they wiped most of the special features from the DVD and only included them on the Blu-Ray (they were originally set to appear fully, or close to it, on both) and

Now you may argue that those aren't signs of Disnyfication, but I think they are. If you read the Marvel Now! comics that just came out, they do are more happy-friendly than before, where everyone now seems to just suddenly get along and everything's right with the world. Blech. Let's go back to Dark Reign, thanks.

Good point, ANP, but you're entirely missing my point.

"Nothing goes down 'less I'm involved. No nuggets. No onion rings. No nothin'. A cheeseburger gets sold in the park, I want in! You got fat while we starved on the streets...now it's my turn!" -Harley Morenstein