Originally Posted By leemac Brad Bird was pretty disparaging about his sometime employer at a CalArts function this week. He questioned where the animated version of Annie Hall will come from - and he said that it won't be Disney. He told some folks afterwards that Iger was hellbent on CGI Star Wars features being made - and that they had been pushing Pixar's Canadian outpost as the potential producers.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Iger was hellbent on CGI Star Wars features being made<< Did the Clone Wars CGI feature make any money?
Originally Posted By dagobert Oh no, I prefer live action. Hopefully Disney isn't ruining SW. Miht sound overdramatic, but I'm not sure if Disney under its current leadership is the right company for SW.
Originally Posted By leemac <<Did the Clone Wars CGI feature make any money?>> This is Iger's Disney. Every feature has to be at least $200m before marketing and distribution costs and it isn't a problem if it isn't a success.
Originally Posted By dagobert Since he steps down in two years and it takes some time to develop movies, I guess the plans can change after 2015 again. Hopefully.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Hopefully Disney isn't ruining SW.<< SW has been ruined over and over and over already, starting with the Holiday Special and continuing through the Christmas Album, Episodes 1 2 and 3, and lots of other stuff I could reel off to you if I were a bigger fan than I am. Disney couldn't make anything as horrid as the Holiday Special even if they tried to do it with malicious intent. SW is bulletproof.
Originally Posted By dagobert That's definitely true. I've only seen the six movies and I own them on BluRay. Only the OT is worth to be called SW in my opinion. I don't care about the rest of the SW Universe. So maybe everything that's coming in the future might be the best SW has ever seen.
Originally Posted By basil fan The Holiday Special...I still remember how excited I was to see that. I was shocked that it was so bad. But I gotta tell ya, my nephews and neice love the Christmas Album. Hee, hee, my brother-in-law hates me every year when they trot it out. "What do you get a Wookiee for Christmas, When he already has a comb..." Star Wars Glitches <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/glitch/swglitch.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/...tch.html</a>
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Hee, hee, my brother-in-law hates me every year when they trot it out. << Is he a Jon Bon Jovi fan? He'll hate you more if you read him the fine print in the credits. Jon (age 16) is lead vocalist on "R2D2 We Wish You a Merry Christmas" - his first appearance on a record.
Originally Posted By dagobert Nothing new, but now it's official. From 2015 onwards we will get a SW moviea each year. 2015: Ep VII 2016: Spin Off 2017: Ep VIII 2018: Spin Off 2019: Ep IX <a href="http://www.comingsoon.net/news/cinemaconnews.php?id=103129" target="_blank">http://www.comingsoon.net/news...d=103129</a> <a href="http://variety.com/2013/film/news/disney-planning-for-2015-2017-and-2019-openings-for-star-wars-1200380582/#3/star-wars-at-cinemacon/" target="_blank">http://variety.com/2013/film/n...nemacon/</a>
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I want to see Tom Stoppard write "Stormtroopers #'s 17 and 26 Are Dead." Episode 4 as seen by two minor characters. And Yoda Knows Best as a spinoff TV sitcom.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Go to YouTube, type in Patton Oswalt Parks and Rec. That's the Star Wars film I want.
Originally Posted By dagobert Harrison Ford at Jimmy Kimmel. <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/harrison-ford-chewbacca-full-144305218.html" target="_blank">http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/...218.html</a> It's hilarious.
Originally Posted By jasmine7 <<I want to see Tom Stoppard write "Stormtroopers #'s 17 and 26 Are Dead." Episode 4 as seen by two minor characters. << I dunno if you know about this, Dabob, but there was a Star Wars comic published by Dark Horse several years back called "Tag & Bink Are Dead," and it was pretty much that, except they were two goofy/incompetent Rebel soldiers. The book's concept came from the scene with the two Stormtroopers talking outside of the Falcon, after it got captured. The writers wanted to know who those guys were, and, well, they were Tag & Bink. I wish they would make that into a movie.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Here's the Patton Oswalt video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE7MqKuYkXE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...MqKuYkXE</a>
Originally Posted By Manfried The Darth Vader Clone Wars, whereby 7 trillion clones of Darth Vader are created, all strong with the force. There can be only one, so they keep choking each other to death with the force.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I find your lack of original DNA disturbing. <I dunno if you know about this, Dabob, but there was a Star Wars comic published by Dark Horse several years back called "Tag & Bink Are Dead," and it was pretty much that, except they were two goofy/incompetent Rebel soldiers.> No kidding?! Just when I think I've thought up an original ripoff (and ain't that a delicious oxymoron), it turns out someone beat me to it. Of course, Stoppard did it first. Great play, lousy movie.
