Speculation Ok, the Fox fanfare? Necessary or not now?

How many threads do we need about this?

And also, really? that 3 bars of music is going to change what you feel about the movie? No wonder George walked away...

 

I'm actually really surprised at how much of a big deal everybody's making out of it... I mean, it's just the studio logo, guys - it's not even part of the actual movie.

 

Didn't Disney recently bring their Touchstone brand back out of retirement in a deal with Dreamworks? According to wikipedia Disney signed a 30 picture deal that became effective from last year. So wouldn't Star Wars potentially fall under that part of the Disney empire?



It's not the fox fanfare, but it's not the Disney castle either.

 

It really doesn't matter.

 

Touchstone is traditionally used for films outside of what people think of as "Disney". However, given that they use Star Wars in the Disney theme parks, I think they'll want to reinforce that connection by using the castle logo and Disney brand.

 

I think we'll learn to live without it. Those of us who are capable of accepting change, anyway. There's one question this brings up for me, however. In 2020 the rights to the first six films with the exception of ANH will revert to Disney as well. No doubt a deal will be made with Fox to release all the films in one box set, but then will they all still have the Fox logo, will none of them have it, or will only ANH have it? I kind of hope that none of them will for the sake of consistency, but could they even legally leave it off of ANH?

 

I highly doubt we'll see the Disney logo in front. If they didn't do it for Avengers, I doubt they'd do it for a series that already has history attached to its iconic openings. It'll just be Lucasfilm and that's all. I wouldn't mind a Lucasfilm fanfare of some kind.

 

yeah as much as i love the fox logo, everytime i see a movie from them i think "Oh boy, I'm seeing star wars...oh wait never mind" truthfully we're going to be so engrossed by the fact that we're seeing a STAR WARS movie that the fox logo won't even matter when we see those words "A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy, far, far away."

 

Lots of threads about this:
http://boards.theforce.net/threads/...t-the-beginning.50005742/page-3#post-50156958

Disney hasn't had a chance to put it's name in front of a Marvel movie yet because all the movies thus far were tied up with different distribution companies. It looks like the upcoming Thor movie will have a Sleeping Beauty's Castle intro.

Disney has done a lot of different stuff with their intros.

 

It's Fox's identity.
People ultimately won't mind. This is all completely new territory for STAR WARS and even the most average moviegoer should be familiar of this ownership change, but if people don't like it, they will add the mere presence of a Disney name or lack of a 20th Century Fox opener to their list of complaints.
Jeez the theater crowd of fans is going to be tense about everything in the film as if they can't accept anything but TESB or Timothy Zahn. As much as I'd like to go, I just might skip a midnight showing.
Kind of off-topic, but I get annoyed by seeing so many animated studio and production company logos before films now.

 

I like the fanfare too, but I'm sure we'll get over it...

 

I agree. I touched upon the fanfare (and other little things) in my post The Little Nuances that make a Star Wars Film.

Even though it's 3720 to 1 it will happen, I hope it somehow makes it in. I hope the castle isn't in the beginning

 

I am rather irritated that the Fox Fanfare almost certainly isn't going to be there, but then again I am actually far more worried about what the ST is going to be about.

 

I got used to it after the Clone Wars film had the WB logo. That was just beyond strange.

 

Not necessary in the least. Disney will likely create a new logo to be used with the series that might be even cooler.

 

To quote Palpatine: Just let it go... let it go.

 

Absolute craziness!!! The Fox fanfare???

Stop the world, I'm getting off!!!

 

The distribution rights to Marvel movies are a complex affair but they will all come under Disney control eventually.

So Disney spends $4 billion buying Lucasfilm and you think they'll want to release it with the logo of another movie studio for absolutely no reason at all?

 

Hmm... I wonder if they extended When You Wish Upon a Star through the Lucasfilm logo like the Fox fanfare extension did (the "...Fate is kind; she brings to those who love, the sweet fulfillment of their secret longing..." bridge to take the place of the extension, perhaps?). Actually, the notes of that extension wouldn't really jar and the end of that bit of the song could easily jump right into the Star Wars Main Titles.

It would also be really unique if you could have John Williams arrange it so that the Disney fanfare blends seamlessly with the same style of orchestration (which he also did for the Fox fanfare--I actually read somewhere that the Star Wars Main Titles was purposefully written in B♭, the same key as the fanfare). Perhaps one could put the Disney fanfare into B♭? The original Pinocchio orchestration appears to be in the key of C Major.

 

As much as I'd love for it to be it won't. As far as we know 20th Century Fox has nothing to do with the ST.

 

Will the Disney music they use for opening their movies now be known as "When I wish upon a Star Wars"?

 

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I don't think it'll be there, but I'm sure somebody will rip the DVD - when it comes out - and insert the 20th Century Fox fanfare.

 

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Quite liked that.

 

Does the fanfare make the movies great? No. Sure they are a part of the movies we've gotten used to, but in the long run it will not make a difference in the actual movie.