Star Wars Episode 7 - 2015

[Tom]

The new Star Wars movie will also be know as Avengers III: Vader vs Iron Man

What the fuck..

[Aragorn]

Temis the Friendly Ghost wrote:

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They should go for the gusto and recast the OT characters, and pick up right where ROTJ left off.

Luke - no idea, let me think about that
Han - crazy idea, how about Michael Rosenbaum
Leia - don't need to think about this at all, it's Jennifer Lawrence
Lando - Anthony Mackie

Dennis Quaid could play Han. He looks more like Harrison Ford now than Harrison Ford does.

Fanboy casting -- Nathan Fillion as Han.

[sojourner]

The good: Lucas not directing or writing.
The bad: Disney in control of who directs and writes.

The unknown: how this will affect current licensed tie-ins like the MMO and cartoons.

[RoJoHen]

Disney successfully brought back The Muppets. Surely Star Wars can't be that difficult to manage!

[Gep Malakai]

On the upside, this opens the possibility of finally seeing the theatrical versions of the OT restored and released. Disney must know there's a market out there for it and they don't have the personal stake in keeping them locked away that Lucas does. Wouldn't that be a treat.

[Sci]

Tom wrote:

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Im in shock that Lucas would sell out to Disney,

Because of course George Lucas would never compromise his artistic vision for the sake of money. Everyone knows he's an uncompromising artiste. That's why he thought them tooth and nail when they tried to get him to insert characters like Jar-Jar Binks into the series.

ETA:

While I'm not fan of yet another round of corporate mergers and ownership centralization, it's only fair to note that the Walt Disney Company seems to have developed a track record of successfully managing major properties. Pixar has continued to thrive since becoming a Disney subsidiary. As mentioned above, Disney successfully revived the Muppets from deep freeze last year. And perhaps most notably, Marvel has had its greatest success under Disney in the form of The Avengers this year. So if Disney can do well by Marvel, I think they can probably do well by Star Wars.

[Temis the Vorta]

Albertese wrote:

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Though it'll be weird seeing a Star Wars movie start out with Cinderella's Castle instead of the 20th Century Fox searchlights....

It would be classy of Disney to turn that into Princess Leia's castle on Alderaan instead.

[sojourner]

RoJoHen wrote:

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Disney successfully brought back The Muppets. Surely Star Wars can't be that difficult to manage!

Correction, Jason Segel brought back the Muppets after Disney sat on the property for 20 years not knowing what to do with it.

Derp-O'-Lantern wrote:

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On the upside, this opens the possibility of finally seeing the theatrical versions of the OT restored and released. Disney must know there's a market out there for it and they don't have the personal stake in keeping them locked away that Lucas does. Wouldn't that be a treat.

No, Disney will just put the movies into "the vault" and only release them for sale every 5 to 10 years.

[RoJoHen]

sojourner wrote:

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Correction, Jason Segel brought back the Muppets after Disney sat on the property for 20 years not knowing what to do with it.

Well, maybe Jason Segel should write the new Star Wars movie too! Star Wars: A Rock Opera

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Aragorn wrote:

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Nathan Fillion as Han.

And how would that be any different from Mal Reynolds?

Me, I'm calling BS on this. Even if they started filming right this minute, there's no way they could get a film ready for release by 2015. Blockbusters, SW films especially, take years to make.

[Donald Draper]

Disney fans have wondered why there is not a full Star Wars park. Instead of that announced Avatar land. There will surely be Star Wars one at some point now. With the Avatar deal maybe scrapped. That never made any sense. It was one successful film with sequels years away. Plus DIsney does not even own that. Now it owns SW and that has tons of material to develop a park around.

[RoJoHen]

Eh, Disney seems to be pretty resourceful.

[Temis the Vorta]

Aragorn wrote:

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Dennis Quaid could play Han. He looks more like Harrison Ford now than Harrison Ford does.

Fanboy casting -- Nathan Fillion as Han.

I knew the Fillions fans would chime in, but I'm sure Disney will be looking for moderately or very big movie actor names, Jennifer Lawrence and Anthony Mackie are the type they'd go for. Rosenbaum has done some movies, I'd say he's the lower range of movie notoriety to be considered for such an incredibly high profile role that everyone will be freakng out over, for good or ill.

And they'll look for actors around age 25 for Luke & Leia, and 30-35 for Han and Lando.

[Agent Richard07]

According to the article, they want to make "Episiode 7" and a lot of other movies within the franchise, so more Ewok Adventures and whatnot. No mention on whether or not Ep. 7 will be part of another trilogy.

Derp-O'-Lantern wrote:

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On the upside, this opens the possibility of finally seeing the theatrical versions of the OT restored and released.

That would be nice.

[marillion]

That's a pretty damn quick turn around, in my mind... Unless they already have scripts in draft/development.. Or then again, maybe that doesn't matter...

I don't want to see original roles recast... Unless Mark Hamill is in there playing "wizened old Jedi Master," I'd rather see this take place farther into the future... Technically speaking you could have the droids and Chewie of course, but there's no way Ford will do it and, not to be too indelicate here, but I don't think Carrie could hack it.. Just my opinion, of course...

I'd rather see a, ahem, "next generation of Jedi" twice removed, dealing with some new threat to the Republic...