Mike86

I don't see the Original Trilogy being rebooted. I think if Disney planned to go that route that they wouldn't be doing Episode VII at all and I especially don't think they'd have brought back the original cast if that was the plan. Even if aspects of the originals are dated they're still classics and have lived on for all this time that I don't see the purchase by Disney changing anything.

My guess is they'll just continue making installments in the franchise (both with the "Episode" labels and other spinoff or solo films) as long as they can. Its fairly obvious that the original cast is being brought back just to give things an extra boost. It pleases the original fans and also is a way for them to loop in younger audiences to watching the originals. After that I'm sure we'll just see the younger cast take over the entirely.

Ranger

Does Disney have any big animated movie like Frozen or Maleficent set for 2015?

Artman

Their live-action film (like Maleficent) next spring is Cinderella, but as far as I know they don't have any in-house animated movies next year - potentially two Pixars though. Should be no shortage of films to attach SW trailers to, probably be a couple in addition to what might come out this year.

They are however setting themselves up to have a major movie every few months. Pretty soon, they will have 3 Marvel movies, a SW, a live-action (like Alice in Wonderland 2, etc, 2-3 animated movies (2 pixar, 1 disney) every year.

Ranger

Oops, didn't know Maleficent was live-action. Haven't seen it. I was surprised they didn't have any plans for a Frozen sequel.

Today's news was Lucasfilm's animated fairy muscial "Strange Magic" film coming Jan. 2015. It was planned befor ethe sale, so probably just something Disney wants to get out of the way.

Artman

Oh I'm sure they do, lol. But to do it right, they should spend a few years on pre-production, I would expect one of the upcoming shareholder meetings to announce it.

resinrats

I really doubt Disney would consider remaking Ep 1-3. They are done. Live with it. It would also be a slap in the face to George Lucas. "Hey George, thanks for selling us one of the biggest franchises ever. PS You suck so much ass that we are going to redo the movies you fucked up"

I remember some director wanting to do a Boba Fett movie but like a whiny bitch, wanted to negate George's story and have the Ep2 Boba getting killed and another person taking his Boba's name just so the Boba Fett the director grew up with isn't the Ep2 version.

joe_b

I believe that rumor came from Latino Review, who mentioned the idea of killing off clone Boba was pitched by Lawrence Kasdan. Probably just a bogus report. The only director who has openly expressed a desire to direct a Boba Fett movie is Joe Johnston (which would be fitting since he helped design the character) but I don't think he elaborated on what the approach to it would be.

mcnabb

I got news for you, when you pay 4 Billion Dollars for something, I don't think they care about someone's feelings.

Plus, if you at everything JJ & Disney have done with Episode 7, it goes against everything Lucas did with the PT:

-More Real Locations and Practical Effects. Heck JJ Abrams even posted a video outside of a desert (most likely Tatooine) where a puppet was moving in the backround to signify this wasn't going to be loaded with CGI like the PT.

-Shooting on 35MM film. Lucas shot AOTC & ROTS on digital, and JJ did not follow this as many people complained that digital was TOO clean and too cartoonish.

-More Luke, Leia and Han in Episode 7. Lucas wanted Luke, Leia and Han to play very small roles as that was the draft that Michael Arndt wrote. JJ & Kasdan re-wrote by giving Han, Luke, and Leia more screentime, as the rumor is Han Solo plays a major role now.

-I remember when they first announced Episode 7, Lucas was still going to be involved in a 'supportive' role. Yet, when Charlie Rose asked Lucas what was going on with Episode 7, he responded that he has not even visited the set once and not talked to JJ for awhile.

I agree with you that they probably won't remake the PT, but when you are a business, 'feelings' are the last thing they care about when it comes to their bottom line. Just remember how ugly the split was with Disney and Chairman Michael Eisner in 2005 after the shareholders revolted on him.

Solid Snake

-those are filmmaking decisions. That doesn't do anything against the stories of the PT.

-Again.... doesn't impact the narrative.

-I can't say much on this point cuz I know very little on it.

-He seems pretty open to just letting it go

Also... at the end of the day. Kathleen Kennedy is controlling Lucasfilm. She's known, worked with, and supported Lucas for what seems like forever. She ain't going to piss on what has gone before her. She's moving forward. Everybody is moving forward. Let it go. The PT sucked. You're not going to get the stories that you want and many others didn't care for.

mcnabb

I always wanted the ST (going back to the mid 80's), so you are preaching to the choir about the PT. I am just saying I would never put it past a studio to milk ALL they can from a franchise.

Solid Snake

You're stretching it though... that seems wildly unrealistic even for a studio like Disney.

Just so we know...

What kind of power does Lucasfilm have? Are they like Marvel? Can do anything they want and Disney just pays the bills?

milo bloom

I'll say this about "reboots", in the past I had said many times that I would have preferred George had remade the OT instead of making the SEs if that meant both versions were released on DVD/Bluray, etc.

But at this point, I don't think Disney is willing to finance a do-over of three films like that.
And personally I'd rather see "special editions" of the PT anyways, I still say all three of the prequels are one more good pass through the editing bay away from being fairly good films. Most of the story flaws will be there, but there's pacing and structure issues that could really use cleaning up.

DthRdrX

Disney isn't going to touch the PT anytime soon. I bet they want to remove as much thought of it from public memory as possible while moving forward, hence all the E7 on-set BTS striking resemblance with the OT.

Sure, someday we might get an all over reboot but that will be when the series isn't making bank as is.

Solid Snake

You can't make great acting out of some of those actors' delivaries. I don't think a great editor could make good out of that w/ what is there. The whole thing had issues in every form. Some shit you can't escape from.

joe_b

I do think it's telling that he never visited the set after stating he would be part of the creative development and doing those videos with Kathleen Kennedy about the future of the franchise. At the very least, getting a picture of Lucas and Abrams on set with the cast would have been good for publicity purposes.

It's possible he felt slighted when they replaced Michael Arndt and overhauled a script that was developed under George's guidance. In an interview right after the sale to Disney, he seemed under the impression that his outline for the sequel trilogy was a major part of what Disney paid 4 billion dollars for. The article even mentioned he was unwilling to let Bob Iger read the treatment until he signed the contract (which he later relented on). Kind of funny, considering the outline could have focused on Jar Jar's offspring and Disney would have still backed up the Brink's truck just to secure the merchandising rights to Star Wars.

BrewCrew

I don't think Disney will entertain remaking I-III anytime soon as there are still pretty strong rumors out there that Ewan McGregor will play Kenobi in a new movie or even a trilogy of new movies. So there are at least signs Disney doesn't want people to completely forget I-III. Plus, they paid billions for Star Wars and I'm sure they can still still make quite a bit of money from those movies from video and airing them on their various cable channels.

Shannon Nutt

I'm sad that you didn't say "Binks" truck and go for the obvious pun.

mcnabb

How Wude!

Shazam

You could do prequels and use characters that have no connection with the OT. You could even set things up for events that occur in the, um, next trilogy?

TGM

prequels inherently suck as you know the outcome of many of the players. no more prequels (unless you are going to go wayyyyy back to KOTOR days).

Michael Corvin

They died.

resinrats

Unfortunately people in the sequels died also since its a Long Time Ago..

Solid Snake

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DthRdrX

That sounds good to me. Ewan was probably the best thing about the PT.

Rob V

A plot like stopping a meteor from hitting your girlfriend is 10x better than the mess that was The Phantom Menace.