Disney buys Lucasfilm: My toughts

Even tough struggling to write a single word about this hot topic, I've noticed people are talking about this more then about hurricane Sandy, so I figured, that as a (wannabe)blogger/(wannabe)movie reviewer, I am obliged to write down my toughts. So the big news is, that George Lucas sold his production company, Lucasfilm to Disney, for 4.5 billion dolars. The thing that made  people turn on their cameras and wipe the dust off their keyboards the most, is that Disney now owns the rights to Star Wars and already announced the release of a sequel trilogy, starting with Star Wars: Episode VII in 2015.

Now the reason I didn't want to write about this, is simply because I don't care that much, because I am simply not a Star Wars fan. Yes, I've said it - I'm not a Star Wars fan. It's not that I hate the movies, it's just that I was born after the original trilogy came out, I was too young to watch the prequels in theatres and Phantom Menace 3D didn't come out in our country (!). So I only saw all of the movies except Return Of The Jedi once on TV and I liked them, but I was so young, I just didn't have any special feelings towards them. To be honest, I don't really remember them. I remember the story and the characters and everything, but Star Wars never was part of my childhood, I never jumped at any news related to it, I don't hate George Lucas for ruining it with prequels or whatever everyone is saying - to me, they were simply a bunch of nice movies. So these big news just weren't such big news for me, but as I've said - if everyone's talking about it, I have to as well.

The news received pretty mixed reactions. The hardcore fans (*cough* haters *cough*) are of course raging in their race car beds, about how Disney will ruin the franchise and all that. Wait, I tought the prequels already ruined it, is Disney going to ruin it even more? Besides, maybe they forgot Disney doesn't necesarilly mean Mickey Mouse and ruining franchises, as it also owns a couple of other companies, notably MARVEL. One of the more important backnews (let's pretend it's a word) is also, that George Lucas won't direct these movies and will be considered a creative consultant, a.k.a. "we tell the public you're in, go play with crayons". Which means, that Lucas basically let his hands off and any director could direct the new Star Wars movies. There are many different suggestions, some even including M. Night Shyamalan (if you wanna see Jar Jar Binks turning out to travel back in time and pretend to be the good twin of Darth Vader and acidentally become the real Luke's father, go with that). I would like to see either Joss Whedon either Gore Verbinski take the job. Whedon is sadly contracted to The Avengers 2, which are also coming out in 2015, but I think Disney favourite Verbinski would also do a great job. Han Solo is a sort of a space pirate, after all.

But there still are a couple of things confusing about this shocking event. What happened to all the Star Wars movies being released in 3D each year? Are they going to release both Episode IV 3D and Episode VII (possibly 3D) the same year or did Lucas forget all about that? Since Lucas has been talking about 9 movies and the original trilogy considered the middle trilogy from the start, I'm guessing letting his hands off wasn't exactly an overnight decision. So what, he double-booked? I don't know and as I've said, I don't really care that much. I look forward to a Disney Star Wars movie a lot and of course, seeing the first six movies, as in actually seeing them (I did phisically see them, but I think you know, what I mean). By the way, anyone cares Disney now owns Indiana Jones too? No one? Yeah, me neither.


So what do you think about Disney buying Lucasfilm? Are you looking forward to 3 more Star Wars movies? Which director / writer do you think should direct / write them? Comment below, let me know!