Timber

Ugh, Tatooine again? The universe has to be larger. That said, I wouldn't mind seeing Hoth again or Yavin IV.

taffer

Naboo and the Endor moon are the two best places.

Shannon Nutt

JJ puts Ewoks in this thing, and I may walk out of the theater.

stvn1974

Hopefully if there are Ewoks in it they blink.

DaveyJoe

Then that would ruin the fucking continuity with the OT.

Josh-da-man

I remember in the comic book "Dark Empire," (which was the first thing ever released in the EU) there was a scene where the New Republic was battling the remnants of the Empire and Luke took down an AT-AT with nothin' but the Force.

Maybe they're doing a homage to that scene?

milo bloom

What legal issues? Disney owns Lucasfilm. Fox has the home video distribution rights. Disney says "release the originals on Blu", Fox says "okey dokey".

The only issue is that Fox will continue to get a cut of the home video sales until Disney can buy them off. It may stick in Disney's craw that Fox will get a piece of that pie, but it's not really a "legal issue".

Greg MacGuffin

Like everyone else, I'm bored of Tattooine, but I have to admit, the idea of seeing an AT-AT in a desert landscape is kinda cool.

Josh-da-man

But on the downside, with CGI available the AT-ATs will be doing splits and backflips.

Sean O'Hara

What if they're Ewok terrorists who want revenge against the New Republic because the Death Star's destruction rained billions of tons of radioactive debris upon Endor, destroying the ecosystem and causing mass famine. Maybe that desert scene actually is Endor, and that's the foot is a remnant of the battle where the Ewoks plan to execute Han and Leia's children as part of their revenge -- wouldn't that be frickin' awesome?

Kicker_of_Elves

I'd pay to see some pissed off Ewok's getting force pushed around.

stvn1974

This is a place holder for if I ever think of anything positive to post about JJ Abrams or Star Wars.

Ranger

Dark Empire comic is OOP? Luke taking down an AT-AT on Tatooine using the Force sounds awesome.

I wonder if Leia will get a lightsaber.

Solid Snake

Yeah. That always sounded cool to me. Never saw the comic but the idea that Luke could do that always looked cool in my head.

Rob V

Maybe the new characters save Ewoks from chemical testing labs. Since Ewoks can't blink, they're perfect for the "eye" tests.

I'd love some scenes took place on Hoth -- my favorite planet in all the movies... but please, no more Tatooine.

Lt Ripley

As long as there is a scene of Luke teaching them to fetch sticks, I'm down.

milo bloom

Read the book


I know the fandom take on Dark Empire seems to run either love it or hate (with no in-between opinions), I'm plainly on the love it side. I'm actually in the middle of a re-read of part II, and if anything, I'd love to see a revisited, expanded version. As it stands, all three stories rush over a lot of things and and refer to offscreen events. A used bookstore will likely be your best bet to find them, be sure to look for the version of part 2 that includes the third part, Empire's End. It's otherwise impossible to find on its own.

taffer

I'm not sure if it's out of print, but if it's not now, then it soon will be. Dark Horse is losing the Star Wars license at the end of 2014, and it reverts to Marvel/Disney.

Dark Empire is one of the most controversial of the Star Wars EU because


The spoiler is Luke destroying the AT-AT using the Force.

Solid Snake

Looked cooler in my head but still neat.

hanshotfirst1138

Disney have not demonstrated any interest in sharing. They pulled the comics license from Dark Horse to move it back to Marvel, they cancelled Clone Wars completely to restart it on the Disney Channel to get it away from Cartoon Network, and they canned the entire Lucasarts division so that they could move it under their own umbrella. Doesn't sound like they'd be willing to compromise much. And that before you even factor in the restoration costs.

Chrisedge

Well, there is two thoughts. One Disney could just say to Fox, we aren't gonna release the old movies ever, and it becomes worthless to Fox to keep so Disney can buy them. Or they just buy them out right. Since Fox will hold onto Ep IV forever unless they sell, Disney is gonna have to deal with them at some point.

Obi-Wanma

Actually, the bolded section seems like the opposite of what you're talking about. Lucasarts was a game company that they owned. They shitcanned it so that they could license out the Star Wars brand to EA.

Guru Askew

Ultimately people are assuming that Disney is gonna refuse to approve anything Fox wants to do on video while they have the rights and there's no evidence to suggest that or even support it as a theory.

I would also think that Fox would be in a pretty good position legally if Disney simply refused to approve anything Fox proposed when Fox does still have the rights. An entertainment lawyer would jump at the chance to demonstrate was intentionally making something unreleasable by Fox when they have a legal right to release it, especially when you're dealing with a change of ownership.

The whole point is, its unlikely it would get that far. Disney will indirectly benefit from having these films on video in any form when their new movies come out and they aren't gonna be enter into a big legal mess with Fox.

With Lucas's playing a smaller part in the whole Star Wars machine now there is less opposition to releasing the films in their original forms. Period.

Sean O'Hara

How would this be any different from the hold-ups over the Adam West Batman?

Obi-Wanma

Disney would not only indirectly benefit, they would directly benefit, as they would get a share of the profits from any Fox release, a rather large share, if reports are to be believed.

I don't believe that Fox has authority (or even the ability) to restore the OOT on their own though. Disney would have to do the restore, and then give it to Fox to release. The question is, would Disney make the investment to do that when they have to share the profits with Fox, or does it make more sense to them to wait until the majority of the films revert to them?