[News] Disney Buying Lucasfilm, Plans New Star Wars Movie
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Dei beat me to it!
Still Disney is starting off strong, I'm quite hopeful.
Still Disney is starting off strong, I'm quite hopeful.
...screenplay for Toy Story 3? Well *clap* no worries here up in this. As long as George doesn't suggest something horribly awful I think were good...bit of a long shot but still.
Unlike Spielberg, these guys will be able to say no to him.
figmentPez
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I'm really enjoying the crossover art:
Different Slave, Same Outcome by ~seniorgoldenspork
Leia by *14-bis
Different Slave, Same Outcome by ~seniorgoldenspork
Leia by *14-bis
figmentPez
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I don't know about this...
He has to be voiced by James Earl Jones though... otherwise it just won't work damn it.
He has to be voiced by James Earl Jones though... otherwise it just won't work damn it.
The big twist would be that he's a droid and just thinks he's Vader.
C3PO was carrying a copy of his childhood conscious, which switched on shortly after his death! Woo, now we get to kill two birds with one stone, a bad guy and KID3PO!
Or would it be DARTH 3PO?
North_Ranger
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I just wonder how they're gonna pull this off without completely frakking up the Extended Universe.
Personally I'm more than willing to let them do that; I admit giving the whole "what happens after Jedi" universe, comics and novels alike, a big ol' pass 'cause it felt like an attempt to rip off money. Plus, the idealism of the original trilogy doesn't really sit well with the prolonged war, only to be followed by the Vong invasion - and some odd years later starting the cycle all over again, with the Sith taking over and killing almost all the Jedi for like... what is it, the 14th time?
Personally I'm more than willing to let them do that; I admit giving the whole "what happens after Jedi" universe, comics and novels alike, a big ol' pass 'cause it felt like an attempt to rip off money. Plus, the idealism of the original trilogy doesn't really sit well with the prolonged war, only to be followed by the Vong invasion - and some odd years later starting the cycle all over again, with the Sith taking over and killing almost all the Jedi for like... what is it, the 14th time?
I'm about 99% sure they don't care about anything that happened in the EU.
North_Ranger
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Good.
But I'm betting dollars to donuts there's still gonna be a helluva lot of people who'll whine and bitch about it if they don't remember to mention the Yuragonian Incident in the Whackamacko sector following Luke and Leia's visit to planet Cheez'Wiz.
Geez, at least get it right. Luke and Leia visited the water moon of Cool Whip. Frakin' Finns!
They'll probably keep the good bits of the EU, making some of it canon and re-releasing some of the books when the movies start coming out.
As long as they don't do that sub-plot with emperor clones, I'm freaking golden.
Mara Jade and Kyle Katarn are from official Lucas products. They are as canon as you can get without being in the movies. Basically, according to Lucas' own words, canon works like this...
Movie > TV > Game > Toy > Book > Other
Everything with an official Lucas license is canon, but the farther left you go, the more important that canon is. So if something in a movie contradicts anything else, the movie is right.
Movie > TV > Game > Toy > Book > Other
Everything with an official Lucas license is canon, but the farther left you go, the more important that canon is. So if something in a movie contradicts anything else, the movie is right.
North_Ranger
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No no, you're thinking the novel Star Wars: Now We're Just Making Shit Up, which included that sequence as a drug-induced dream vision in Nook Taraboo. The original events were introduced in the short story The Super Special Awesome Return of Jar Jar Binks.
Yes. This is because more people are exposed to the games than the books, just as more people are exposed to the TV shows and movies. They have higher canon because they have higher awareness. It's also easier to point to a single concrete media example for an event's depiction than to a series of books that the increasingly book avoiding American public wouldn't be aware of (and which may no longer be easily available).
figmentPez
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I remember that when I was a kid I thought "The Clone Wars" was people having to fight copies of themselves. I always pictured Obi Wan and Anakin fighting evil duplicates.
So much cooler than what we actually got.
I thought the clone wars was the only really redeemable thing that came out of the prequels.
Agreed. I actually like the TV show. It's pretty well done and wasn't pants on head retarded until they brought back Darth Maul.
figmentPez
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The cel-drawn animated Clone Wars was amazing. The computer animated intrigued me for a while, but I gave up on it. The movie I found to be wretched.
I really didn't like the first season of Clone Wars, but I really picked it up when the bounty Hunters showed up.
What? No. Movies beat everything and the TV show beats everything else, yes, but after that, everything else is pretty much equal. Unless it's been retconed or otherwise declared non-canon (the What If comics for example). The form of media for C-canon material (which is "all recent works (and many older works) released under the name of Star Wars: books, comics, games, cartoons, non-theatrical films, and more") has nothing to do with canon precedence.
Now with the kids for me its not so much that they are in lesser cannon, but that Han's son basically killed Chewie. To this day I am conflicted about this.
That's a poor way to look at it for the Anakin. Chewie willingly risked his life to save him, and yeah, he died in the process, but it's a choice he made. The Vong are to blame, not Anakin.
Like I said, I am conflicted about it. I don't see it as all bad, but I don't see it as all good either. All I know is if I saw Chewie dying on the big screen- THE TEARS WOULD NOT STOP! Aw crap, CRYING NOW! DAMN YOU EXPANDED STAR WARS UNIVERSE!
I had the same reaction when Chewie showed up in the prequels for no goddamn reason
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