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And a video of Little Leia asking a shocking question of the Storm Troopers:
And here I was thinking it was a Last Airbender reference. Gremlin bending!That picture's even awesomer if you get the Dragon Ball Z reference.
I wouldn't even have a problem with them recasting the OT actors. On the other hand, NJO might very well be better on screen than it was as novels. 4 ABY - 19 ABY is really my home territory in the EU, and I always found that era to be better written than the NJO novels, but NJO definitely provides a plot structure that respects earlier canon and are action packed enough to make for good movies.Heir to the Empire would be ideal, but frankly, everyone from the OT is too old to play those roles in that timeframe.
I think they could go with a condensed NJO, possibly? I stopped reading NJO after Ben was born (because that's the point I went to college and had no time to keep up with ten new books a year).
imagine the opening crawl
It has been twenty-five years since the fall of the EMPIRE. It is a period of peace and democracy and A NEW REPUBLIC has arisen to lead the Galaxy
Luke Skywalker, Jedi Master, has established a new Academy on the former Rebel base of Yavin IV and has rebuilt the ancient order of the Jedi.
Unknown to the Jedi, an Ancient Evil, the YUUZHAN VONG, have prepared for 4000 years to invade the GALAXY with powerful biological weapons that will enslave all the people of the Republic...
Keep in mind that Disney is also largely responsible for both the Marvel Cinematic Universe (i.e., Avengers, Iron Man), and lots of Pixar. I have faith that they can make a good movies, I just don't want those movies overthrowing the universe I know and love.On one hand: UGH. Leia is a Disney Princess. Disney Jar-Jar could be a thousand times worse. I don't see these movies not sucking.
On the other hand: Disney now owns the Lucasarts games, and if Monkey Island, Grim Fandango and Sam & Max get new games or Pixar movies, I would be very happy.
I'd be happy to take Andrew Stanton or Matthew Vaughn. Not sure Disney is going to trust Stanton with anything big anytime soon, but John Carter was their screw-up and not his.I think Nolan would be an acceptable alternative to Joss.
This is the reaction I'm hearing from most of my friends.I don't see these movies not sucking.
I don't know...If Disney doesn't do the right thing and recognize EU, I'm disowning Star Wars. VII had BETTER be either Truce at Bakura, something from the X-Wing series, Courtship of Princess Leia, or Heir to the Empire. Anything else and I'm outta here. http://www.slashfilm.com/disney-buys-lu ... film-2015/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
This. I've mostly managed to convince myself this is an elaborate joke or something.I don't know how to feel about this.
Deep introspection needed.
A lot of us have been waiting and hoping for years to see our favorite EU characters on screen. Also, for the same reason, to a lesser extent, that I have a love/hate relationship with Peter Jackson's LOTR adaptation. I love seeing middle earth on screen, but he also butchered a lot of things, and I hate the idea that there are people for whom his films are the first things that come to mind when they think of LOTR, instead of the real deal.I guess I don't understand the insane attachment to the EU in terms of having its canonity recognized as "official" that I'm hearing from a lot of corners of the world. The insistance that the new movies be based on an existing EU story doesn't make sense to me, because, like, how does it affect you? If you really like the EU stories, well, this wouldn't really make them mysteriously not good if the new official canon said they didn't happen. Kyle Katarn would still be one of my favorite video game heroes, even if he canonically (fun word!) disappeared in a puff of smoke. It just means there are two universes. Which there kind of already are.
It works like an adaptation: if the adaptation is good, despite ignoring a lot of the source material, great! There's something to enrich material you already love, and new material to love. If the adaptation sucks, who cares? You still have the original source.
So I get that it's exciting at the prospect of seeing EU character on-screen, and I realize the irony of talking about this in a forum that has a very large section devoted to the adaptation of a certain favorite book, but I still don't see the importance of it. Like, Lucas, as much as I disagree with a lot of things he's done, clearly had no specific reason to be tied to the EU when he was writing. It was all stuff other people had created, elevated fanfiction. And while I can see the disappointment that future movies might ignore the EU canon, just purely because it's fun to see adaptations, your response at the prospect that books and comics that explicitly are not created by the "real" creator, which was Lucas and is now Disney, aren't followed by an adaptation seems just a little strong.A lot of us have been waiting and hoping for years to see our favorite EU characters on screen. Also, for the same reason, to a lesser extent, that I have a love/hate relationship with Peter Jackson's LOTR adaptation. I love seeing middle earth on screen, but he also butchered a lot of things, and I hate the idea that there are people for whom his films are the first things that come to mind when they think of LOTR, instead of the real deal.
Maybe it's silly. I'm still not really interested in a Star Wars sequel that discards the universe we EU fans live in and the characters we care about, any more than I'd be particularly interested in a new Devlin/Emmerich Stargate trilogy. Star Wars is one of the few major sci-fi franchises that has gone to extraordinary lengths to maintain continuity without resorting to alternate timelines and nonsense like that, and maintains an official continuity database which is scoured before new Star Wars media is authorized. Even the notoriously continuity minded Star Trek franchise has now screwed the pooch on that count with the J.J. Abrams Star Trek. The real fans want an ongoing story, not a reboot.So I get that it's exciting at the prospect of seeing EU character on-screen, and I realize the irony of talking about this in a forum that has a very large section devoted to the adaptation of a certain favorite book, but I still don't see the importance of it. Like, Lucas, as much as I disagree with a lot of things he's done, clearly had no specific reason to be tied to the EU when he was writing. It was all stuff other people had created, elevated fanfiction. And while I can see the disappointment that future movies might ignore the EU canon, just purely because it's fun to see adaptations, your response at the prospect that books and comics that explicitly are not created by the "real" creator, which was Lucas and is now Disney, aren't followed by an adaptation seems just a little strong.
Also, Bryan Singer.I'd be happy to take Andrew Stanton or Matthew Vaughn. Not sure Disney is going to trust Stanton with anything big anytime soon, but John Carter was their screw-up and not his.I think Nolan would be an acceptable alternative to Joss.
Calling it Episode VII makes me think that is unlikely...Personally, I think I'd prefer if Disney left the time period of the movies and the post-movies EU alone and explored other areas of Star Wars lore like the original discovery of the Force and the Light/Dark schism or the Great Hyperspace War. Or they could also break entirely new ground in an as yet unknown part of the timeline like Bioware did with it's KOTOR/SWTOR games.
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