Star Wars - - - Part 12

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UPDATE: Disney is planning a new Star Wars trilogy starting in 2015, with a new movie coming every other year.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/a...-lucasfilm-star-wars-episode-7-coming-in-2015

The Walt Disney Company announced today it has agreed to acquire Lucasfilm and is planning Star Wars Episode 7 for 2015! In a conference call, Disney revealed that they are planning a new trilogy starting in 2015 with a new movie coming every other year. This is following such big purchases as Pixar and Marvel Entertainment. Here is the full press release:

Continuing its strategy of delivering exceptional creative content to audiences around the world, The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire Lucasfilm Ltd. in a stock and cash transaction. Lucasfilm is 100% owned by Lucasfilm Chairman and Founder, George Lucas.

Under the terms of the agreement and based on the closing price of Disney stock on October 26, 2012, the transaction value is $4.05 billion, with Disney paying approximately half of the consideration in cash and issuing approximately 40 million shares at closing. The final consideration will be subject to customary post-closing balance sheet adjustments.

"Lucasfilm reflects the extraordinary passion, vision, and storytelling of its founder, George Lucas," said Robert A. Iger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company. "This transaction combines a world-class portfolio of content including Star Wars, one of the greatest family entertainment franchises of all time, with Disney's unique and unparalleled creativity across multiple platforms, businesses, and markets to generate sustained growth and drive significant long-term value."

"For the past 35 years, one of my greatest pleasures has been to see Star Wars passed from one generation to the next," said George Lucas, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lucasfilm. "It's now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers. I've always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime. I'm confident that with Lucasfilm under the leadership of Kathleen Kennedy, and having a new home within the Disney organization, Star Wars will certainly live on and flourish for many generations to come. Disney's reach and experience give Lucasfilm the opportunity to blaze new trails in film, television, interactive media, theme parks, live entertainment, and consumer products."

Under the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of Lucasfilm, a leader in entertainment, innovation and technology, including its massively popular and "evergreen" Star Wars franchise and its operating businesses in live action film production, consumer products, animation, visual effects, and audio post production. Disney will also acquire the substantial portfolio of cutting-edge entertainment technologies that have kept audiences enthralled for many years. Lucasfilm, headquartered in San Francisco, operates under the names Lucasfilm Ltd., LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic, and Skywalker Sound, and the present intent is for Lucasfilm employees to remain in their current locations.

Kathleen Kennedy, current Co-Chairman of Lucasfilm, will become President of Lucasfilm, reporting to Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn. Additionally she will serve as the brand manager for Star Wars, working directly with Disney's global lines of business to build, further integrate, and maximize the value of this global franchise. Ms. Kennedy will serve as executive producer on new Star Wars feature films, with George Lucas serving as creative consultant. Star Wars Episode 7 is targeted for release in 2015, with more feature films expected to continue the Star Wars saga and grow the franchise well into the future.

The acquisition combines two highly compatible family entertainment brands, and strengthens the long-standing beneficial relationship between them that already includes successful integration of Star Wars content into Disney theme parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Paris and Tokyo.

Driven by a tremendously talented creative team, Lucasfilm's legendary Star Wars franchise has flourished for more than 35 years, and offers a virtually limitless universe of characters and stories to drive continued feature film releases and franchise growth over the long term. Star Wars resonates with consumers around the world and creates extensive opportunities for Disney to deliver the content across its diverse portfolio of businesses including movies, television, consumer products, games and theme parks. Star Wars feature films have earned a total of $4.4 billion in global box to date, and continued global demand has made Star Wars one of the world's top product brands, and Lucasfilm a leading product licensor in the United States in 2011. The franchise provides a sustainable source of high quality, branded content with global appeal and is well suited for new business models including digital platforms, putting the acquisition in strong alignment with Disney's strategic priorities for continued long-term growth.

The Lucasfilm acquisition follows Disney's very successful acquisitions of Pixar and Marvel, which demonstrated the company's unique ability to fully develop and expand the financial potential of high quality creative content with compelling characters and storytelling through the application of innovative technology and multiplatform distribution on a truly global basis to create maximum value. Adding Lucasfilm to Disney's portfolio of world class brands significantly enhances the company's ability to serve consumers with a broad variety of the world's highest-quality content and to create additional long-term value for our shareholders.

The Boards of Directors of Disney and Lucasfilm have approved the transaction, which is subject to clearance under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act, certain non-United States merger control regulations, and other customary closing conditions. The agreement has been approved by the sole shareholder of Lucasfilm.

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Finally, with this merger and the rights coming together, we'll finally get the sequel we've always wanted...nay, that we've always deserved:


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I´m worried about the rush to get SW movies out though, 2015, 1017 and 2019. Oh god, i´m scared they´re gonna rush into it. I really hope i´m wrong :csad:
 
Damn, talk about a megaton of a news! :wow:

Just reading alone that they're doing a new trilogy gives me goosebumps. There's so many directions they could take this, just imagine the same kind of talents in front & behind the camera that surrounds the Marvel movies for the new SW trilogy.
 
I know all the expanded stuff we've gotten the past couple decades, but seeing a teaser trailer with an old Luke and Leia, or even an old Han....that will be the one people will buy tickets to other movies for to see as opposed to just watching online.


Personally I hope none of the original characters are involved .
 
I'm not sure how I feel about this actually, but it was sure a big shock!
To be honest I don't think I wanna see Luke, Leia and everyone else in the new movie. Keep it separate from the previous trilogies and go further into the future and maybe focus on Old Republic era later on or something.
 
its a matter of time we will get a Star Wars amusement park, I can see it now.
 
Avengers isnt competition

Release Star Wars in May and Avengers 2 in July and the summer belongs to Disney

2015 will belong to Disney! :p

We may finally get the unaltered original films on bluray!!!

That would be nice.

Well Avengers is the same studio now so they wouldn't be so stupid as to have them compete against each other, but I'd imagine WB might be re-thinking their JL plans right about now.

True, it is definite Disney is going to wipe the competition in 2015. My goodness, what a strange turn of events.
 
its a matter of time we will get a Star Wars amusement park, I can see it now.

Or Disneyland/World will just expand on what they already have. Either way it's pretty damn cool.
 
This is terrible.

Disney is an evil imperialist comglomerate.

What makes "Star Wars" so engaging isn't just the six films themselves...but this giant collective community that surrounded it. "Star Wars" was owned by George Lucas...it's creator, a human being...and so he allowed the visuals and sound effects to be used by other creators and fans alike to remix, reevaluate and satirize the property, aiding to create a global phenomeonan.

There was a preschool in Florida that decorated its walls by painting up Disney characters. Disney responded by sueing the school and forcing them to paint over the mural.

So those "Star Wars" fan films and the fan involvement that Lucas has encouraged all these years?

What're the odds that's going to be thrown out the window now that Disney is the omnipotent master?

People are going nuts over this announcement without really thinking it all through.

This is true.
 
Honestly, I'm just as shocked about my own excitement over this as I am over the actual news. I thought I was done with Star Wars, but apparently it's true that you never get over your first love. ;)
 
Honestly, I'm just as shocked about my own excitement over this as I am over the actual news. I thought I was done with Star Wars, but apparently it's true that you never get over your first love. ;)
Star Wars is sexy. Gets better with age. :o
 
Still can't wrap my head around this....
 
There are already Star Wars and Indy attractions at Disney World's Disney Hollywood Studios. I guess they will probably expand a little bit, but I don't think they will overdo it.
 
Holy ****! Imagine a Star Wars/Indiana Jones/Marvel theme park!

My wife and I just went to Disneyland a few weeks back and we were already talking about when Disneyland will get a Marvel attraction there. Would be great if it's a new roller coaster of some kind.
 
Well since Lucas is still gonna be around I dont think they will crap on the fans like that.
They probably wont as they've been incredibly open with Marvel fan films and parodies. They haven't cracked down on that at all. Same will probably go for anything Star Wars related.

Disney is keeping every single employee already working at Lucasfilms and as you mentioned Lucas will still have a pretty big influence on decisions like that anyway.
 
So.. Avengers 2, Justice League, AND Star Wars in the same year!
 
They probably wont as they've been incredibly open with Marvel fan films and parodies. They haven't cracked down on that at all. Same will probably go for anything Star Wars related.

Disney is keeping every single employee already working at Lucasfilms and as you mentioned Lucas will still have a pretty big influence on decisions like that anyway.

Its sounds like a secure place for Lucasfilm to be. The future is very interesting!
 
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