Disney buying Lucasfilm

[Paelos]

I am so much more worried about Disney buying Hasbro right now.

I don't want my Magic cards to $0 overnight.

Why would this happen?

Card inflation is my guess.

[ghost]

If that were to happen I would think that it would make his collection more valuable, not less.  

[Polysorbate80]

R2's dome is used as a candy dish.  Or latrine.  That sort of thing.

You can do that yourself!

[Draegan]

I hope they make go old man lunatic and turn him into a crazy person that dies at the end of episode 7 thus revealing a bigger "evil".  Whatever that is.

I can't think of a way right now how you kill Han Solo in the first episode either that doesn't make it feel retarded.

[DraconianOne]

You drop a moon on Chewbacca and leave Han in Mos Eisley cantina drinking himself to death.

[Sky]

Greedo's son shoots first.

[Samprimary]

Han will look older, Falcon will look newer, movie will own.

[Ingmar]

There's no particular reason 7-9 have to use the same characters; there's DEFINITELY no reason they'd have to use the same actors.

[Polysorbate80]

Just be creative.

For instance, Hamill can now be a Yoda-like mentor to a new Jedi.  Won't even require much makeup.

[eldaec]

They don't have to use old characters, but I'd be very surprised if R2 and C3PO aren't in the centre of things, and pretty surprised if at least 1 of the 3 original leads isn't in there in some capacity.

Leia in some political role or Luke as a Jedi council guy could work fine, even if just in the first act, stood there with a giant yellow exclamation mark over their heads.

[ghost]

Leia in some political role or Luke as a Jedi council guy could work fine

They're going to have to hire a really damned good fitness trainer.

[Samprimary]

VII: An Old Hope

[Lakov_Sanite]

VII: An Old Hope

A New Hip

[Zetor]

It's going to be about Jar Jar's grandchildren anyway.

[Ratman_tf]

Just CGI the motherfuckers. That's what all this has been leading up to anyway. 

[Tebonas]

Now I definitely see the family resemblance, though.

[UnSub]

I enjoy the prequels for Senator Palpatine and Christopher Lee. And there are some nice visuals in them.

I hope the newquels are used to explain the inconsistencies between the prequels and original series. That'd be great! 

[Cyrrex]

I would add that I thought Obi-Wan was great in the prequels.

[Yegolev]

i liek chocolate milk

[ghost]

I would add that I thought Obi-Wan was great in the prequels.

Ewan MacGregor was an excellent casting for the role. 

[Polysorbate80]

VII: An Old Hope

A New Hip

Look as good, they do not.

[Nebu]

They could make cameos as Hutts. 

[Tannhauser]

Too much Rancor in this thread.

[ajax34i]

They're going to have to hire a really damned good fitness trainer.

Not really...  Granted, game-quality is nowhere near cinema-quality, but look at how Miranda in Mass Effect 2 looks almost exactly like her voice actress.  I think we're a lot closer than we think to virtual actors being possible.

[Evildrider]

According to Mark Millar, Matthew Vaughn isn't able to direct SW since he's got like 3 movies shooting one after another.

[Kail]

They're going to have to hire a really damned good fitness trainer.

Not really...  Granted, game-quality is nowhere near cinema-quality, but look at how Miranda in Mass Effect 2 looks almost exactly like her voice actress.  I think we're a lot closer than we think to virtual actors being possible.

She doesn't look almost exactly like her actress.  She looks good for a video game character, but it is not particularly difficult to tell which shots of the character are from the game and which are shots of the actress (at least in close ups) which is the kind of quality we'd need for virtual actors to be feasible.  I haven't seen anything that approaches that.

Compare a close-up of Miranda to something like Aki from the Final Fantasy movie, and realize that Aki was slammed for being too unrealistic, and you'll get an indication of how far we've still got to go.

[Ingmar]

Meh, the problems aren't with modeling, they're with animation.

[Kail]

Yeah, there is that too... especially if this is going to be some weird mix of CG and live action, like the prequels were.

[ghost]

Star Wars VII may have found it's writer.

Sources also tell Vulture that the studio’s brass want to bring back the three central characters of the original Star Wars: a much older Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Han Solo. No deals are in place with any of the original actors, though our source did say it had high ambitions to sign up Mark Hamill, and EW recently reported that Harrison Ford was open to the idea of returning. We're told that Arndt's 40-something page treatment will soon be crossing the desks of top directors, including Brad Bird, Steven Spielberg (the former producing partner of Lucasfilm co-chair Kathleen Kennedy), and J.J. Abrams. Whether they’d be interested is unknown (Star Wars is a lot of baggage for an established director), but Disney wants to make sure they’ve at least tried the biggest names.

[sickrubik]

Brad Bird out of the three of those, please.

Unless Spielberg can summon something of his career from the late 70s/early 80s.

[Merusk]

Yeah, there is that too... especially if this is going to be some weird mix of CG and live action, like the prequels were.

I wouldn't count on this as that's Lucas' thing.  Dude is fascinated with CGI and that's unfortunate but as he's not directing anymore, who cares.  

ed:  One thing that will change, unfortunately, is the intro and iconic scrolling text.  That got Lucas fined and by the directors guild, later causing him to quit.  Despite how iconic it is, I don't see any names willing to deal with that these days.

[Abagadro]

It's just a fine. Lots of films do it these days (Nolan has done it on all his Batmans).

[DraconianOne]

ed:  One thing that will change, unfortunately, is the intro and iconic scrolling text.  That got Lucas fined and by the directors guild, later causing him to quit.  Despite how iconic it is, I don't see any names willing to deal with that these days.

It really won't. Lucas wasn't fined for the crawl, he was fined for omitting the name of the director (hence why it was the DGA that fined him).  But even those guidelines for opening credits are pretty much obsolete now and there have been plenty of films which have title-only or even no opening credits whatsoever. Most Chris Nolan films are title-only (Batman Begins had no credits until the end) as were Spielberg's War of the Worlds and Abrams' Star Trek.

FAKE EDIT: Abagadro said it more succintly as usual.

[DraconianOne]

Also: Michael Arndt wrote Little Miss Sunshine which is one of my favourite screenplays ever. Haven't read the one for Toy Story 3 but loved the film. 

[eldaec]

Brad Bird out of the three of those, please.

Unless Spielberg can summon something of his career from the late 70s/early 80s.

Seem to remember Spielberg having opined that he'd love to do a Star Wars.

Arndt is a really good choice for writer though.