Disney buys Lucasfilm

Looks like Zack Snyder is directing his own Star Wars movie spin off based on Seven Samurai? Lol

http://www.io9.com/5975854/holy--zack-snyder-is-working-on-a-star-wars-samurai-movie

  On 1/14/2013 at 10:07 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Looks like Zack Snyder is directing his own Star Wars movie spin off based on Seven Samurai? Lol

 

http://www.io9.com/5975854/holy--zack-snyder-is-working-on-a-star-wars-samurai-movie

...Which Lucas based the Star Wars trilogy in part on.

There's also mention that the Star Wars television series (of which 50 episodes were written, which supposedly centers around warring families on Courscant) penned by none other than the guy who revived Battlestar Galactica into a successful series I personally have no interest in watching.

Wasn't really sure if this required a new thread or not... so I decided to post it here

It's now official. J.J. Abrams is directing Star Wars Episode VII. I'm actually kinda pleased with this.

http://collider.com/j-j-abrams-star-wars/

sound interesting. we might be in for a pretty good SW movie.

[iNSERT EVERY SINGLE LENS FLARE JOKE]

There. I just saved you guys a couple of hours.

I don't know what to think. If he hadn't already done star trek id be excited. But now he is just monopolising scfi!

Star trek with wookies...

  On 1/24/2013 at 11:59 PM, Squee said:

[iNSERT EVERY SINGLE LENS FLARE JOKE]

 

There. I just saved you guys a couple of hours.

i'm glad i was never a star wars fan because this would actually be bad news. this guy is the seth macfarlane of hollywood. and the sad part is that he's also signed up to do another star trek movie. might as well just throw every other remake his way so we get massive box sets of crap rehashes on blu-ray

yeah wow this is bullshit f this all im out

oh wow. count me out.

i'll be there at midnight opening day

i think gore verbinski would have been a far better choice. I can take or leave the pirates films but Rango was pretty well done

  On 1/24/2013 at 11:59 PM, Squee said:

[iNSERT EVERY SINGLE LENS FLARE JOKE]

 

There. I just saved you guys a couple of hours.

Now that the flare jokes are out of the way can we say that JJ Abrams is a shitty filmmaker?

he's a total hack and only seems to know how to market a film, not make one. so he's probably the perfect choice for star wars.

just want to remind everyone: this is the poster for his star trek film

  On 1/25/2013 at 12:55 AM, zaphod said:

he's a total hack and only seems to know how to market a film, not make one. so he's probably the perfect choice for star wars.

you've just pinned down a fundamental problem with modern film and music as a whole. I (if you've seen me bitch on other parts of this forum already know this) feel this way about most of the new music coming out, the marketing for it is brilliantly done, so good in fact that you can't help but be underwhelmed by the actual content of what their marketing.

i think youve all forgotten the fact that the three prequels were fucking horrible. anyone would be a step up from those shitty ass movies. granted JJ may not be the best choice, but its still better than what George Lucas was doing.

  On 1/25/2013 at 1:08 AM, Awepittance said:

  On 1/25/2013 at 12:55 AM, zaphod said:

he's a total hack and only seems to know how to market a film, not make one. so he's probably the perfect choice for star wars.

 

you've just pinned down a fundamental problem with modern film and music as a whole. I (if you've seen me bitch on other parts of this forum already know this) feel this way about most of the new music coming out, the marketing for it is brilliantly done, so good in fact that you can't help but be underwhelmed by the actual content of what their marketing.

i see it more blatantly in film than music, but i know what you mean. it doesn't help that the way in which music is reviewed is essentially one large content farming industry to market a select few buzz bands and artists. seems like diminishing returns.

the tone of almost every film trailer, for that matter every major film, is one of almost ceaseless longing for a payoff that won't be fulfilled. abrams knows exactly how to capitalize on that. he knows the specific geek pleasure centers to hit. let's vaguely reference khan in the next star trek because it will sell tickets to nostalgic nerds. he'll do this on an absurd scale with star wars. i don't even want to know what the marketing will be like.

Noooooooo!

The guy that wrote "Little Miss Sunshine" is writing the script?

Not sure if lol

lol

  On 1/25/2013 at 3:40 AM, OneToThirtySix said:

The guy that wrote "Little Miss Sunshine" is writing the script?

 

Not sure if lol

To be fair he also does sci-fi.

Another "to be fair" there are plenty of screenwriters out there who write for different types of film genre.

At least Abrams wont have to rely on Orci and Kurtzman to come up with a ridiculous script.

as long as it has midichlorians I'm there.

Disney owns Marvel and Lucasfilm now?! Can't we just declare a monopoly on sci-fi and fantasy and make them give them back?