2012-10-30, 10:45 PM
Razmos Wrote:More Star Wars films? are you fucking kidding?
Now i'm starting to seriously hope that the world ends in 2012 >_>
STAR WARS HATERS TO THE RIGHT >
But seriously, this is awesome news. As it has been said earlier in the thread, Lucas is old. He's about to retire, and will most likely pass away within a few decades. Someone - or conglomerate group - needed to take the reins on his empire, and in all honesty I'm glad it's Disney. Bear in mind the main, original audience for Star Wars was not the nerd, but the family; as many articles about the merger have stated, it's one of the greatest epic family-film franchises ever created. Who else but Disney to continue its legacy?
All that being said, it's true, no one wants a repeat of the prequels. But I really, firmly believe we won't see that, because if there's anything we know about Disney it's a company exceedingly smart and capable of reinventing itself, always working - and succeeding - at staying ahead of the rest as the biggest media conglomerate in the world. It knows what it needs to thrive year in and year out in an ever-rapidly evolving world, and we've seen the reward of such actions, in Disney films like Brave and The Princess and the Frog, bringing the first red-haired and African-American princesses, respectively, to the world, or in, as many have said, the Marvel comics, much more similar to the Star Wars franchise.
Ultimately the concern is the quality of the films, and I think we need to give Disney our trust, as we have since children. They're a capable brand that greatly respects the source material, and so, given the IMMENSE and ever-growing canon of Star Wars after the Battle of Endor, provided they adhere strictly to this storyline and adopt everything that made the first six films amazing, and rejecting what made them terrible, who knows? They could produce films you all might think are better than the originals.
And about milking Star Wars for all it's worth? I don't think they'd do that either. Again, they're too smart to make twenty bazillion films and dedicate everything to the franchise. They know when to market something, and are just utilizing this gargantuan force when necessary in their arsenal.