[News] Disney Buying Lucasfilm, Plans New Star Wars Movie

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bhamv3

bhamv3

The fact that they're bringing Vader back says to me they're tossing out the entire EU. No Dash Rendar. No Han-Leia marriage and kids. And Boba Fett's probably permanently dead.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

bhamv3 said:
The fact that they're bringing Vader back says to me they're tossing out the entire EU. No Dash Rendar. No Han-Leia marriage and kids. And Boba Fett's probably permanently dead.
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There's nothing that says they can't cherry pick the ideas they like out of the EU while still going their own way.
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

bhamv3 said:
The fact that they're bringing Vader back says to me they're tossing out the entire EU.
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Rumor, it's only a RUMOR. I really doubt they've gotten much beyond, "We're doing three movies. What do we want to do? Let's start tossing idea around."
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

I hope they'll put that story where that guy gets Darth Vader's glove and gets power from it in that one book. Mostly it never made sense to me then, and doesn't now and I would like for some sense make in that regard.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

Ravenpoe said:
There's nothing that says they can't cherry pick the ideas they like out of the EU while still going their own way.
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True. But what they like about the EU might differ wildly from what the fanbase likes. Witness "we're bringing back Vader."

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Rumor, it's only a RUMOR. I really doubt they've gotten much beyond, "We're doing three movies. What do we want to do? Let's start tossing idea around."
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Also true. But seriously, bringing back Vader is a terrible idea, and the fact that it was even tossed out there does not bode well. It'd like writing a sequel to the Lord of the Rings and saying, "Y'know what, Frodo and Gandalf were the best characters, let's find some way to bring them back." No, don't do that, their part of the story is over, it's ended, they have closure now. Stop messing with it.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

I think the new story should be about a new jedi whose trained by Luke Skywalker. Also Luke should be played by Mark Hamil. End of sentence.
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

bhamv3 said:
Also true. But seriously, bringing back Vader is a terrible idea, and the fact that it was even tossed out there does not bode well. It'd like writing a sequel to the Lord of the Rings and saying, "Y'know what, Frodo and Gandalf were the best characters, let's find some way to bring them back." No, don't do that, their part of the story is over, it's ended, they have closure now. Stop messing with it.
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I didn't say it was a good idea, but most likely it's somebody just throwing out something to keep the news running, and not a serious or even real idea. So many are treating it as I-saw-it-it-must-be-true type news. I really don't think they have much as far as the story goes yet, they've got a few months to get it hammered out, it's just so early in the story process that anything heard now might as well be taken as (to steal a phrase) unicorn farts.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

But but but... neckbeard nerdrage about unsubstantiated Internet rumors is my God-given right as a random Netizen! You can't take that from me! :p
 
North_Ranger

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Yoshimickster said:
I hope they'll put that story where that guy gets Darth Vader's glove and gets power from it in that one book. Mostly it never made sense to me then, and doesn't now and I would like for some sense make in that regard.
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Actually that's kinda the plot of an erotic short story featuring Mara Jade... which leaves me wondering, what the heck else have you been reading? ;)
 
Just Me

Just Me

Yoshimickster said:
MORE PUPPETS! I am sick of CGI, and I want some classic muppet style movement.
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Hell yeah and amen to that!
Empire's Yoda lifting the X-Wing from the swamp, that scene alone had more powerful personality than all prequels combined.

And they better get John Williams for the music, Star Wars wouldn't be Star Wars without his music. God bless him with many more years in good health.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

I missed where Disney canned the Clone Wars cartoon with it leading into its last season. I had a love/hate relationship with the show, but I wanted resolution of the main story.

But next year there will be a completely new Star Wars Cartoon dealing with the formation of the Rebellion and the Jedi Hunt.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

I think the prequels did in a lot of people's fandom, honestly. But the fact that everyone else and their dog hasn't let Star Wars in general just die away is another big thing. It sort of died off before the prequels came in. Still popular and still talked about, but not parodied and referenced out the yin-yang like it has in the last decade or so.
 
Cheesy1

Cheesy1

And that's MY biggest concern about Disney's plan for the franchise. That they'll over-saturate the market with so much Star Wars that it'll completely lose whatever reverence and mystique it still had left. And that would make 5-year-old Cheesy sad. :(
 
Krisken

Krisken

Star Wars has brought me the X-Wing miniatures game, which just won the Dice Tower board game of the year. I care not how people feel about the franchise in general.
 
Just Me

Just Me

Cheesy1 said:
And that's MY biggest concern about Disney's plan for the franchise. That they'll over-saturate the market with so much Star Wars that it'll completely lose whatever reverence and mystique it still had left. And that would make 5-year-old Cheesy sad. :(
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Wasn't that already done with the prequels?

I'm still strong in the Force in my own way, holding up the original trilogy flag whenever I can against all those Mandalorians-Sith Lords-Prequels-SWTOR-stuff-is-ubercool-ZOMG-Star Wars kids I meet in my SW Larp circle.
I actually want a Yoda-Puppet to pounce them whenever they open their mouths with anything not Ep IV-VI.
 
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