Dork Alert: Disney to produce Star Wars 7 by 2015

[BrianFromWA]

as long as Hayden Christensen's brooding is dead and gone...

 

[THE HCP]

Watched the original trilogy 10,000 times. But I can honestly say I have never watched the 2nd trilogy since they were originally released in the theaters. Hope they do it justice!

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

for me, they could cut everything except the lightsaber battles and it'd be the exact fucking movie to me.

:MARIS61:

 

[speeds]

Less interested to see what they do with Star Wars, more interested to see if they try and reboot or continue the Indiana Jones series.

All they really need to do with Star Wars is release the original cuts on Blu-Ray and DVD and the fans will be happy with them no matter how much SW7 sucks.

 

[Denny Crane]

Harrison Ford is really old.

 

[speeds]

Harrison Ford is really old.

He's 70! He makes Liam Neeson look like a young action star.

But if they try and reboot it with Shia LaBeouf I'm out.

 

[julius]

At this point, a reboot might be the only thing that is plausible. It's been almost 30 years since episode 6, and those guys haven't aged gracefully.

btw, interesting note. yes Fucking Harrison Ford is 70, but whats harder to believe is Johnny Depp is almost 50.

Anywho, the only actor that could be used in the 7-9 series would probably be Mark Hamill. And while he looks like a drunken escapade gone wrong, he could play a bad guy, to a newer younger Luke Skywalker.

I'd be interested in seeing stuff between 3 and 4, but that ship has sailed.

I think it depends on who they hire as actors to portray the roles. And as long as they don't over Disney it, or make it super over the top special effects or just turn it into a movie with "hot stars" (i.e., make it a movie teenage girls will get wet over), it shouldn't be too bad.

Keep it true to the story, wipe Phantom Menace, Jar Jar Binx and Hayden Christensen from our minds and thats a good start.

btbh, I fully expect to be disappointed in the movies. My biggest complaints about 1-3 (besides the major suckage that was #1), there was TOO much crammed into the movies. Yes, as 1 complete saga it makes sense, but there's so much horse shit in 1 and 2 that it just doesn't sit well.

 

[julius]

He's 70! He makes Liam Neeson look like a young action star.

But if they try and reboot it with Shia LaBeouf I'm out.

I remember when the Mummy came out years ago, and I thought that (whatever that guys name is) could've been a good choice to replace Fucking Harrison Ford for Indiana Jones.

And then they went with Shia LaBeouf.

guh. The kid was horrible in the transformers movies (which were horrible anyway), he was atrocious in the Indiana movie (which was such a horrible movie)...the kid is just not a likable character/actor. I would hope that they hire someone who can act, is a relative unknown and NOT hired for his looks (although that vampire movie with that one dude who looked like he was a cross between a pig and a pile of jizz shows that hollywood has different tastes in what is culturally acceptable as looks).

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Mark Hamill as an Obi-Wan-style Luke, training a new apprentice who is seduced by the dark side. Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Leia and Han's son. Book it.

 

[santeesioux]

Here's an idea, why don't they reboot episodes 1-3? Only this time, make them not suck?

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Here's an idea, why don't they reboot episodes 1-3? Only this time, make them not suck?

Someday, no doubt they will. I bet the entire universe gets a creative reboot in the 2030's when they go holovision.

 

[speeds]

I don't think people would take kindly to them rebooting the whole series.

I also don't expect to see SW expanded universe stuff (the novels, the comics) introduced as canon in the next films. They'll probably start from scratch.

Sadly Disney is being run by Alan Horn who is a cheapskate. Doesn't bode well for either franchise.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

I don't think people would take kindly to them rebooting the whole series.

I also don't expect to see SW expanded universe stuff (the novels, the comics) introduced as canon in the next films. They'll probably start from scratch.

Sadly Disney is being run by Alan Horn who is a cheapskate. Doesn't bode well for either franchise.

Everything gets remade.

They (Disney) have confirmed that 7, 8 and 9 are all original material, not based on EU.

And you only need to look at the money they threw at the last batch of Marvel movies to feel good about marquee budgets for marquee projects. Hell, even John Carter got $200mil+

 

[Blaze01]

I think this is good news.....

Disney did a great job with Marvel's Avengers movie I thought....No reason they couldn't do the same with Star Wars....

I think the biggest benefit is quite frankly getting Lucas out of the way, let some young directors\writers come in and revitalize it....

 

[BlazerCaravan]

I think this is good news.....

Disney did a great job with Marvel's Avengers movie I thought....No reason they couldn't do the same with Star Wars....

I think the biggest benefit is quite frankly getting Lucas out of the way, let some young directors\writers come in and revitalize it....

Exactly; get some new blood in there. Disney wants the boys audience, and they will commit to delivering some great boy-friendly material. Plus, they have been good in the past with curating historical artifacts from their "vaults": to me the biggest positive is that someday we might get the original, untouched trilogy on blu-ray. My candle of hope burns bright.

 

[Wheels]

 

[crowTrobot]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Leia

or just this

 

[huevonkiller]

Interesting I guess. :O

 

[Sedatedfork]

JJ Abrams to direct Star Wars VII? I love most of Abrams' stuff

http://geektyrant.com/news/2013/1/24/jj-abrams-to-direct-star-wars-episode-vii-awesome.html

 

[3RA1N1AC]

jj would be pop good, but i want some dark stuff too

 

[SlyPokerDog]

JJ Abrams to direct Star Wars VII? I love most of Abrams' stuff

http://geektyrant.com/news/2013/1/24/jj-abrams-to-direct-star-wars-episode-vii-awesome.html

Wrong JJ, Hickson is going to be the next director.

 

[BrianFromWA]

so the franchise is going to rebound and score at the box office? Will he double up and make 2?

 

[julius]

so the franchise is going to rebound and score at the box office? Will he double up and make 2?

JJ Hickson is NBA equivalent of the fluidity of the plots in episodes #1 and 6 and the acting ability in all 6 episodes.

 

[Natebishop3]

I like JJ Abrams... but Christopher Nolan would have been better.

 

[crowTrobot]

Lost Wars!

 

[magnifier661]

I am so down for geeking out to Star Wars again. Phantom menace killed my love.

 

[santeesioux]

The new Star Trek was pretty good, so i have hope for Episode 7.

Also, lens flare joke.

 

[THE HCP]

This is hilarious!

http://www.uproxx.com/webculture/20...ing-to-j-j-abrams-directing-star-wars/#page/2

 

[THE HCP]