Star Wars is now a Disney franchise

Yep, Lucasfilm was sold to Disney today for $4.05 BILLION.

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Did you catch the part about Episode 7 coming out in 2015? I wonder if Shia Lebouf will be playing Han Solo's kid...

Episodes 8 and 9 on their way too.

I want to see Joss Weadon direct them and have Nathan Fillion as Han Solo.

No.

Thought #1:


(there are lots of other good memes where this came from)

Thought #1a:


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Thought #2:
Many people have suggested Joss Weadon as a re-writer for Star Wars. I'd like to see Disney's Phineas and Ferb crew take it on. "Luke, you are so busted!"

Nooooooooooooooo!

I can't say I'm surprised. Disney has been doing Star Wars-related stuff since the late 90's at least. Although, it did feel rather incongruous to be wandering around mouse land earlier this year, and come across Jedi. It reminded me of that Sesame Street song, "one of these things is not like the other..."

With more after that "every two to three years!" Yikes. This thing is going to get run into the ground. Oh well, not like you can do much worse than Jar Jar.*

*should I add this post to the calendar so that in 2020 we can check if they've actually done something worse than Jar Jar?

Perhaps more seriously, they could well use the original cast in the sequels to play an older Luke, Han Solo, and Princess Leia. Hell, bring back Billy Dee Williams as well.

But really, no. What Star Wars needs isn't three more episodes. It needs a good swift rebooting. Just forget the prequel ever happened. Maybe even go farther, like the Star Trek reboot, and just forget about the entire canon and start completely from scratch with new actors.

The writer I'd *really* like to see work on the project, which will of course never happen, would be JMS. I'd like to see the Star Wars universe with JMS's ideas about galactic politics. Imagine if Babylon 5 had been made with Star Wars budgeting? He'd kinda like to do it and he did once write a treatment for rebooting Star Trek.

But really, forget about all that. What I *really* *really* want to see is something completely freakin' new that accounts for our better understanding of how computing is going to radically reshape the future of humanity. There's a lot of fun that could be had making high budget movies out of, to pick one example, Iain M. Banks's Culture books. These would make for some very good films. Supposedly somebody's working one one, but I'd like to see this done properly with top-flight SFX people unhindered by things like limited budgets.

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