Disney buys Lucasfilm

I quite liked Abrams' Star Trek film.

 

Just throwing it out there...

Edited January 25, 2013 by jhonny

Michael Giacchino doing a Star Wars score = my dream come true.

This news is non-news, really.

 

I dare anybody here to come up with a viable alternative that would have made them happy. Key word: Viable.

 

Abrams or Verbinski, flip a coin. In a hypothetical experiment, they'll make 90% identical films, regardless.

Alfonso Cuaron.

ding! Now that would have been truly amazing.

  On 1/25/2013 at 1:08 PM, Philip Glass said:

Michael Giacchino doing a Star Wars score = my dream come true.

this could be exciting

  On 1/25/2013 at 4:31 PM, Gocab said:

Alfonso Cuaron.

 

Well, fuck. I stand corrected (sorta). As critical of CoM as I've been, I still respect its artistry. That, and his Potter film was by far the best of the bunch. It's even a great standalone film.

 

Still, I don't think it's viable. Cuaron doesn't have nearly enough big budget chops to satisfy studios.

 

Do people genuinely like Giacchino? That surprises me. His music seems as derivative as any other generic fill-in-the-blank Hollywood composer. The Lost music is shit.

JJ abrams is just such an obvious choice. But viable, sure. Curon or even Rian Johnson would have been better.

 

hell, joss whedon would be a better choice.

Edited January 25, 2013 by zaphod

just watched y tu mama again last night.

 

what a fantastic movie. possibly one of my favs ever. sexy, funny, great camerawork (cuaron obvs) and much much more going on about the political atmosphere of mexico aka rural vs city, but it's never presented as a political movie, or even a movie about mexico ftm.

 

ANYWAY, we'll see how gravity does. I agree he's too artsy for big budget, but star wars will always make huge money, always so why not risk it on a proven artist? especially if you're looking to reboot a series that was lampooned for next to zero cinematic artistry

Edited January 25, 2013 by dr lopez

What a boring choice. My interest has dropped to zero.

Edited January 25, 2013 by Ceerial

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It has been confirmed by both companies that Episode VII will be an original story and not directly based on the various novels, graphic novels, or other materials in the Star Wars Expanded Universe that take place during the post-Return of the Jedi time period. This includes, most notably, Timothy Zahn's 1991 novel Heir to the Empire, the first installment in Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy, which was originally considered by fans to be Episode VII.

 

I'm neutral with the choice of a director considering I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE MOVIE WILL BE ABOUT

 

Also, there are already like 474,833,920 EU plots and sub-plots.

Edited January 25, 2013 by joshuatx

this is gonna be awesome. JJ in for the win.

  On 1/25/2013 at 4:36 AM, YO303 said:

 

  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.

I don't think it will be shit, I'm just comparing the drastic differences in character archetypes, settings, vernacular language...THOSE are what make me smirk a bit.

 

In his defense, part of what made the original trilogy stand out was the way the characters presented a very "this-is-everyday-life" attitude, which I wouldn't doubt his caliber of dialogue could easily achieve.

  On 1/25/2013 at 4:42 PM, The Overlook said:

 

 

Do people genuinely like Giacchino? That surprises me. His music seems as derivative as any other generic fill-in-the-blank Hollywood composer. The Lost music is shit.

 

 

Yes you heard wrong dude. Giacchino is probably one of the only respected new composer in existance. All he has done is genuine and not just a Remote control production clone. Lost is an incredible body of composition.

  On 1/26/2013 at 3:48 PM, Philip Glass said:

 

  On 1/25/2013 at 4:42 PM, The Overlook said:

 

Do people genuinely like Giacchino? That surprises me. His music seems as derivative as any other generic fill-in-the-blank Hollywood composer. The Lost music is shit.

 

 

Yes you heard wrong dude. Giacchino is probably one of the only respected new composer in existance. All he has done is genuine and not just a Remote control production clone. Lost is an incredible body of composition.

 

That's cool, I guess I didn't watch enough Lost to hear the incredible parts?

  On 1/26/2013 at 5:19 PM, The Overlook said:

 

  On 1/26/2013 at 3:48 PM, Philip Glass said:

 

  On 1/25/2013 at 4:42 PM, The Overlook said:

 

Do people genuinely like Giacchino? That surprises me. His music seems as derivative as any other generic fill-in-the-blank Hollywood composer. The Lost music is shit.

Yes you heard wrong dude. Giacchino is probably one of the only respected new composer in existance. All he has done is genuine and not just a Remote control production clone. Lost is an incredible body of composition.

That's cool, I guess I didn't watch enough Lost to hear the incredible parts?

The soundtrack for Up was beautiful and it had a theme melody that was memorable.

Up

Lost

The Medal of Honor series

Call of Duty

Secret Weapons over Normandy

Cloverfield (that ending suite!!!)

Ratatouille

Super 8

The Incredibles (channels John Barry like nobody!)
MI Ghost Protocol

John Carter (by far the best swashbuckling score of the past decade)

Star Trek

etc...

 

Heck even things like Speed Racer as a score or a dark one like Earth Days or Let me In shows that he's got the chops. He's a pure talented composer that writes the old-school way. He's got a couple of duds, but so does every composer. But the guy is made to adapt John's existing material like no other composer. It's a genius combo.

  On 1/25/2013 at 5:55 PM, zaphod said:

lol

This is pretty cool. This JJ dude makes pretty good movies, and as Frankie said on the last page, it's not like it can get much worse than that prequel trilogy (not that I'm a huge fan of the original trilogy either, but still.)

Could be good, could be bad. So far, we know nothing about it.

 

edit: lens flare is cool as hell. No such thing as too much lens flare.

Edited January 26, 2013 by Friendly Foil

theyre working hard on making a bluray rererererelease

 

Okay, lens flare jokes sufficiently dead.

omg i bet the new stars wars directed by jj abrams are going to have so much lens flare flol hahaha

there once walked a lens flare in a bar..

Edited January 26, 2013 by vincentvc

Really? Does Abrams use an excess of this "lens flare", and why is this only now coming to my attention?