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Disney Buys Star Wars
« on: October 31, 2012, 05:50:29 am »
I don't have any faith that Disney will make a Star Wars movie that sucks any less than George Lucas has in his last three tries. I do think they are savvy enough business people to realize there is a demand for the original series in it's original form.
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Re: Disney Buys Star Wars
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2012, 06:04:13 am »
On the other hand I don't really feel like they're likely be a whole lot worse than the last couple tries, either. A friend of mine said he was expecting some fairly satisfactory space-fantasy stuff that didn't really have much to do with what he thinks of as Star Wars, and I'm inclined to agree with that assessment.
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Re: Disney Buys Star Wars
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2012, 12:32:46 pm »
I don't have a hoss in this race, so I will borrow John Scalzi's opinion.
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/10/30/quick-thoughts-on-disney-buying-lucasfilm/
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Re: Disney Buys Star Wars
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2012, 03:31:51 pm »
Some of the most active threads on my friends' Facebook pages are about this deal.  There is probably a deep well of interest from GenX if Disney can figure out how to appeal to us.
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Re: Disney Buys Star Wars
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2012, 06:52:22 pm »
If anybody can find a way to make Star Wars slicker and more middlebrow than it already is, it's Disney.
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Re: Disney Buys Star Wars
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2012, 11:28:01 pm »
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