Disney buys LucasFilm! New Star Wars movie in 2015!

I shit ye not. It's all over the place, just breaking.

Yep, ABC news has it, it happened alright....

Confirmed on Fox.

I'm not sure how I feel about this- in a way it's like feeling the Earth move under your feet.

AP - Disney is paying $4.05 billion to buy Lucasfilm Ltd., the production company behind “Star Wars,” from its chairman and founder, George Lucas. It’s also making a seventh movie in the “Star Wars” series.





By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, October 30, 1:08 PM


LOS ANGELES — Disney is paying $4.05 billion to buy Lucasfilm Ltd., the production company behind “Star Wars,” from its chairman and founder, George Lucas. It’s also making a seventh movie in the “Star Wars” series.
The Walt Disney Co. announced the agreement to make the purchase in cash and stock Tuesday. Disney added that “Star Wars Episode 7” is scheduled for release in 2015.








The deal brings Lucasfilm under the Disney banner with other brands including Pixar, Marvel, ESPN and ABC.


Kathleen Kennedy, the current co-chairman of Lucasfilm, will become its president and report to Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn. Lucas will be creative consultant on new “Star Wars” films.
Lucas said in a statement, “It’s now time for me to pass ‘Star Wars’ on to a new generation of filmmakers.”
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Well, at least he's giving the sequels to new filmmakers like we always wanted.
That's a pretty big upshot.

Lucas always said there would never be a third trilogy...what the hell is it going to be? Someone has to be writing a script for it. That's gotta be the toughest NDA anyone's ever signed.

Fuck. Me.

Haven't you been paying attention?
He lies a lot.

Here's too hoping this 7th Film is fucking awesome and not prequel lameness.

And hopefully Disney will release the originals as we saw them not as George wants us to see them. SOLO SHOT FIRST!!

Continuing its strategy of delivering exceptional creative content to audiences around the world, The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) 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.

I'm betting there's another big announcement coming. Maybe something about Lucas' health?

Under normal circumstances, his ego is far too big to let something like this happen.

This will not end well.

So, for one of the new trilogy, at least, I'm thinking Tom Six.
In fact, he should be...the middle piece.

Jar-Jar-Goofy disagrees.

Let me be the first to say "wrong font."

Oh and here's hoping they build Star Wars Park.

A whole theme park with scenes from each movie.

They silently owned Avengers, and it was fucking great.

The update I've heard is new ones every 2-3 years (starting in 2015, of course).

So, no more of this indestructible carved in stone 2-3 trilogies thing, they're going full-on Star Trek/James Bond with it.

Um...I fuckin' am.
You know what board you're on, right?

No, Firefly.

But where do you go with Ep VII? Do you pick up the story from Jedi? Skip ahead a whole generation?

I'm very excited by this. I've always enjoyed the extended universe and the way I see things, Disney will be bringing big production quality to that concept. They are the master at story telling, and there are a ton of stories to be told in the StarWarsVerse.

I'm thinking new generation.

Hamill is just old enough to be the new geezer-master.

That Pixar thing worked out pretty well

Can't respond properly. Wrong room.

Needless to say Disney's continuing success shows how clueless you are.

In other news: Multiple unexplained suicides in basement dwellings all over the western world...

But why not. It's a huge universe with lots of stories in it. If they can get away from the Jedi/Empire stuff there's 5000 films in it.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.


Are you telling me there's going to be a new STAR WARS movie WITHOUT George Lucas' involvement?














YES!!!!