Full Series Future Star Wars animated projects to be produced by Disney TV division not Lucasfilm.

Something tells me that TFN report was pretty big on the "BS" factor, though they got the layoff parts right - the part were LucasFilm wouldn't be making the next series seems ambiguous at best, and the part that claims we wouldn't see the bonus episodes is total BS as confirmed by LFL. The changes are because of the company reorganizing it's priorities for Episode VII, and TCW should take a backseat to the sequels. This is what happens when you don't show sources for information.

 

Yes I do, I think Disney will focus around that and the characters they make or produce for it because all they see is this

 

This is total opinion and so not part of my overall reasoning for why I suspect multiple eras will stay, but I'm likely to spend less were this to be the case. I can justify buying and reading 8 SW novels a year because of how different each one is - set thousands of years apart in some cases, with the galaxy's state being in different conditions.

I would not be inclined to buy 8 SW novels a year set in the same era. I would get bored quicker.

Again, this isn't why I think Disney will continue with the multiple eras - I'm just one customer, and my opinion means little to them if it's opposed by millions of other customers (I don't know if it is or isn't, that's Disney's job to find out).

 

Randy pretty much called BS on it.

 

Actually Randy did nothing of the sort. Last month his tune was:

"I think you're making assumptions based on, well, nothing. Or unsubstantiated rumors. While it's certainly a possibility that the license could move to Marvel at some point in the future, as of this date nothing has changed."

Given what has happened at Lucasfilm in just the last month alone do you really think statements like "the license could move to Marvel at some point in the future," and "as of this date nothing has changed," are really cause to be relieved that Dark Horse will hold the license past this year? Do you honestly believe Disney will allow another rival company to hold the license of their property when they have their own comic production company which can handle the work?

Heck even Randy's statements a couple of weeks ago are troubling. At the Emerald City Comics Con he said:

"What we've been told is that thus far there hasn't been a single discussion between Disney and Lucasfilm as to what, if anything, might happen with Lucas licensing publishing programs, and the best they're able to tell us is that we'll hear something this year. That's how much I know. There are a lot of reasons I think that Disney would be smart not to fix the machine that is already working."

"We'll hear something this year," and "Disney would be smart not to fix the machine that is already working." Yeah, I'm sure that was the prevailing thought throughout Lucas Animation after the Disney purchase, and that worked out so well. Too bad, Dark Horse's title have been pretty good as of late.

Yancy

 

Jack G where is that twitter scan you used

 

Yeah I'm also going to agree with Phatdude. I felt that the Disney buyout wouldn't be good from the start and am I right? Well in my opinion, yes.

 

Ive just had a thought and maybe disney pulled the plug on the clone wars as george lucas final storys were so good they want to make them into a movie.
its just a dream/speculation but for now its all i have

 

You mean the "Golden Age" where we had years of crappy prequel movies and inexplicable revisions to thirty-year-old movies that didn't need revising, painful dialog, worse jokes, racist caricatures, pandering to an idealized version of small children, utter tone-deafness, shameless toy-selling commercialism, and a level of contempt for one's own fans not seen since the days of Andy Kaufman?

If that's the "Golden Age", I'd hate to see the dogcrap age.

 

I've got it....

Ahem.

 

Ok, so Brian Wood got a contract extension from Dark Horse to continue writing his Star Wars ongoing series.... so what? Authors get contracts all the time for books that are either cancelled or never see the light of day. Means nothing, especially given Randy Stradley's comments that they haven't even begun speaking with Disney/Lucasfilm about the license.

Yancy

 

I almost had morning coffee spurt out my nose when I read that. Let me guess your in your late teens or twenties because you OBVIOUSLY were not around during the 70s or early 80s. Toy selling commercialism?!?!?!?! Oh of course Lucas never engaged in anything like that during the holy, untainted days of the Almighty Original Trilogy.

He never stooped to shameless commercialism until those Prequels, right? So, let's go back to the "good ol' days," before Lucas was a sellout... back... back... back to the 70s when a rebellious young filmmaker dared to take on the system and won. Before his mind was taken over by corporate greed and he became one of the very suits he was fighting against.

Ahhhhhh, I remember those good old days as a boy of 10 lounging around in my room reading my latest issue of Marvel's Star Wars, drinking a glass of juice from my Star Wars Burger King Han Solo glass, looking fondly up at my Burger King Star Wars Darth Vader poster. The "Story of Star Wars" played on my little cassette player in the corner. My gaze fell over to my Kenner Millennium Falcon and my action figures on display on the desk against my window. I got up from my bed adorned with its Star Wars bedsheets, walked over to the window, flung open my Star Wars drapes to let the sun in. Hmmmmm... what to do. I picked up my Kenner Electronic Battle Command, played a couple of rounds.

Wait!! I had Little League practice. I quickly grabbed my gear, turned off my R2-D2 desk lamp, threw the change in my shorts pocket into my Darth Vader piggy bank, put on my Star Wars t-shirt and ran out the door... Whoops forgot the ceiling light! Flicked off the C-3PO light switch and away I went. Yeah we didn't have anything like that in the 70s.

Hell, selling an empty cardboard box with the promise of future Star Wars action figures is the height "toy selling commercialism."


Yancy

 

Hell, Ewoks were basically created to sell little teddies/plushies to kids.

 

Yancy, Naru didn't suggest that Lucas didn't do that -- he is suggesting he did do that in the 35 year so-called "Golden Age". Unless I'm completely reading this all wrong in which case I'm sorry. (I need to go to bed)

 

I just love the fact we're already comparing the "Lucas age" vs. the "Disney age" when we really don't have anything to compare yet.

Ideally, we should really be waiting until the Sequel Trilogy is finished before we could even attempt to make a plausible comparison. Humans are so hot-blooded... so unwilling to show patience.

 

This means nothing. It would be folly of them to not renew their own contracts when they are up for renewal for writers. The TCW crew were not expecting to be cancelled either. All signs pointed to it continuing because of all the work they had done on it... oh look... contracts ended with CN and were up for renewal and Disney/Lucasfilm pulled the plug.

 

Actually if you believe Lucas's story the original idea was to have Wookies be fighting that battle. But Lucas liked the Wookie so much and wanted to put him in the first movie decided to make him a copilot. Of course Lucas could of made a better species to believably fight that battle but the Ewoks were exactly what Lucas said they were (a Wookie cut in half).

 

Most JRPG gamers are in their teens or early twenties. In fact that is how I got my nickname was from Chrono Cross. Final Fantasy X was my last hurrah though and I probably turn on a playstation once or twice every six months these days.

 

>Having nothing to refute this

 

No, he was sarcastically replying to phatdude1138' post and giving a litany of "wrongs" committed by Lucas during the SE and PT era, which somehow implies he didn't engage in the same behaviors before. For example he lists "painful dialogue," as if somehow the OT is exempt from this?!?!?! All Star Wars movies are filled with bad dialogue. As Harrison Ford famously quipped during the shooting of ANH, "George you can type this s*&t, but you sure as hell can't say it." I give you the following example or badly written dialogue from the Almighty Empire Strikes Back:

Leia: I don't trust Lando.

Han: I don't trust him either, but he is my friend. Besides we'll soon be gone.

"Besides we'll soon be gone?!?!!?!?" Wow, that's a horribly constructed sentence which falls all over itself. Let see Han is supposed to be this devil-may-care space cowboy, so his dialogue should be a little loose. So how about, "Besides we'll be gone soon," or "Besides, we'll be out of here soon??" Either of those options sound better.

Oh, but I'm sorry there's apparently this new memo out there that suggests the OT has zero bad dialogue... must have just imagined all of those critics reviews back in the 70s and 80s sighting Star Wars' "clunky dialogue."

Yancy

 

I have no issue with Disney producing new Star Wars TV stuff, so long as it is good. And there is no indication that it wouldn't be

 

I think you misunderstood me. The post I was responding to referred to the Lucas era (as opposed to the Disney era) as the "Golden Age", and that's what I disagreed with. No, sorry, I do remember the OT era firsthand, right down to every R2-D2 fast food cup, and yes, it was always pretty freaking commercial. As far as that goes, there wasn't any "Golden Age" - not in 1977, not now, and there won't be one in the Disney era.

That said, at least the movies behind all the commercialism were better in the OT era. And almost certainly will be once again in the House of Mouse era.

 

Mhm, I'm being cautious with EpVII. Everyone was super hyped and excited for Phantom Menace and look what happened. At least J.J. Abrams is directing, that gives me some confidence. I like his style.

That's nice optimism there, but I think pre-judging the Disney era when compared to the Lucas era is jumping the gun A LOT. The same, however, goes to naysayers. The acquisition has just happened, there's no way for any of us to know if it'll go well or poorly.

Of course, as the EpVII forums shows, people absolutely love to speculate.

 

Hm? No, it's a matter of degree, and yes, degree does matter. Given a choice of whether to live in a town that had 10 robberies last year and one that had 1000 robberies last year, all other things being roughly equal, I'd go for the former. Both had some robberies, but again, it's a matter of degree.

So yes, the OT had some flaws. But the PT, well... yeah, it's a matter of degree.

 

No, I understood you just fine. I would agree with your assertion that there isn't some sort of "Golden Age" of Star Wars, but to list your opinions of the faults of the SE-PT era of Star Wars suggests that the OT was immune from this, which it most certainly was not.


Yancy