Disney's buying Lucasfilm

[cogwheel]

Maybe we'll actually get some good Star Wars movies out of the deal...

http://www.benzinga.com/news/12/10/3039 ... -and-stock

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20146942

Disney buys Star Wars maker Lucasfilm from George Lucas

Disney is buying Lucasfilm, the company behind the Star Wars films, from its chairman and founder George Lucas for $4.05bn (£2.5bn).

Mr Lucas said: "It's now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of film-makers."

In a statement announcing the purchase, Disney said it planned to release a new Star Wars film, episode seven, in 2015.

That will be followed by episodes eight and nine and then one new movie every two or three years, the company said.

The last Star Wars film was 2005's Revenge of the Sith, and Disney said it believed there was "substantial pent-up demand".

Disney will pay about half in cash and half in stock, issuing 40 million Disney shares in the transaction.

The deal follows Disney's acquisitions of Pixar studios for $7.4bn in 2006 and Marvel comics for $4.2bn in 2009.

"Our valuation of Lucasfilm is roughly comparable to the value we placed on Marvel when we announced that acquisition in 2009," Disney said, adding that the valuation was almost entirely driven by the Star Wars franchise.

(continued, the Empire wins)

[SteveB]

One minute too late.

[Bella Fortuna]

Merging...

[SteveB]

Disney did a good job with Marvel. I mean, The Avengers was fucking awesome!

So I have some hope with their dealings with Star Wars.

[cronus]

It all began to go wrong with the Ewoks....but Disney could make things a lot worse.

[Svartalf]

a Disney SW movie? you get that Han would never had shot first if disney had owned Lucas then, right? It will be toy story with live action.

[cogwheel]

a Disney SW movie? you get that Han would never had shot first if disney had owned Lucas then, right? It will be toy story with live action.

Oh... My OP was referring to the shit that came from Lucas since 1999, not the original films. I'm thoroughly convinced the success of the originals were due to his inability to make the movies exactly how he wanted them.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Did Doc Smith stop writing Lensmen books after the Eddorians were forced into a higher plane of existence? No.

Should he have done so? Yes.

[Svartalf]

Did Doc Smith stop writing Lensmen books after the Eddorians were forced into a higher plane of existence? No.

Should he have done so? Yes.

What book was that... it's nearly a decade that I'm trying to get myself to sstart seriously on the series.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Did Doc Smith stop writing Lensmen books after the Eddorians were forced into a higher plane of existence? No.

Should he have done so? Yes.

What book was that... it's nearly a decade that I'm trying to get myself to sstart seriously on the series.

That was the climax of the series, Children of the Lens.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Did Doc Smith stop writing Lensmen books after the Eddorians were forced into a higher plane of existence? No.

Should he have done so? Yes.

What book was that... it's nearly a decade that I'm trying to get myself to sstart seriously on the series.

It's really a hoot. Absolutely black-and-white-no-middle-ground situation. The heroes are as pure as the driven snow and can get out of any situation no matter how dire. (They do need help sometimes, say a handy maggot.) The fun part for me was that the human bloodlines were "pure" and "not as pure". The "not as pures" got their genes from male and female ancestors. The "pures" got theirs through a strictly male lineage.

[Svartalf]

Did Doc Smith stop writing Lensmen books after the Eddorians were forced into a higher plane of existence? No.

Should he have done so? Yes.

What book was that... it's nearly a decade that I'm trying to get myself to sstart seriously on the series.

That was the climax of the series, Children of the Lens.

Good, I have none of the stuff he wrote after that.

[Svartalf]

It's really a hoot. Absolutely black-and-white-no-middle-ground situation. The heroes are as pure as the driven snow and can get out of any situation no matter how dire. (They do need help sometimes, say a handy maggot.) The fun part for me was that the human bloodlines were "pure" and "not as pure". The "not as pures" got their genes from male and female ancestors. The "pures" got theirs through a strictly male lineage.

is it as homoerotic as Spinrad's Iron Dream?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It's really a hoot. Absolutely black-and-white-no-middle-ground situation. The heroes are as pure as the driven snow and can get out of any situation no matter how dire. (They do need help sometimes, say a handy maggot.) The fun part for me was that the human bloodlines were "pure" and "not as pure". The "not as pures" got their genes from male and female ancestors. The "pures" got theirs through a strictly male lineage.

is it as homoerotic as Spinrad's Iron Dream?

How would I know?