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Stark wrote:Does the franchise get more raped than 'actually boba feet survived and had hilarious adventures'?

Havok wrote:So does anyone know how much input Disney has in what Pixar and Marvel do? I mean if this is just left to the people at Lucasfilm I don't see much changing. It's not like Lucasfilm needed money or anything.

You mean the idea that a space marine armed with a raygun, rocket launchers, space grenades, cool armour, and a jet pack survived after being swallowed whole by some sand creature bothered you?

Darksider wrote:The biggest immediate question is what they'll do with TCW. It's broadcast and in syndication on a channel disney has no control over. Are they going to be ok with that, or will they want to move future seasons to whatever their cartoon channel is called these days?

Havok wrote:I get you Bean.

I'm just reactionary right now.... I honestly feel... numb I guess is the word... I don't know if this is good or bad.

Simon_Jester wrote:My only thought on this is that I'm not really happy about Disney owning everything in American entertainment, and it looks like they're trending that way. With the big franchises at least.

Also that it would kind of suck if the Disney attitude toward copyright enforcement starts shutting down the fan community; we've got enough overzealous enforcement out there as it is.

There are only a few reasons why, if you're Disney, you announce that you're buying George Lucas's film studio for $4 billion today, in the middle of an impenetrable news cycle surrounding a major natural disaster, and when U.S. stock markets are closed:

1. You want to cheer up the citizens of storm-damaged cities on the East Coast by giving them a new Star Wars film to look forward to.

2. You were going to announce the deal this week anyway, and somewhat callously decided not to delay the release just because Hurricane Sandy happened.

3. The deal is a financial dud, and you want to get the news out with minimum scrutiny.

Based on what little we know of the finances of Lucasfilm (which was private, and 100 percent owned by George Lucas, until today), I'm guessing that something closer to option 3 is happening.

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Compared to its other acquisitions (most notably, its 2006 purchase of Pixar for $7.4 billion), Disney is buying LucasFilm for a steal. And at a glance, $4 billion does look low for an iconic movie series. Earlier this year, 24/7 Wall Street ran some back-of-envelope calculations and estimated that the Star Wars franchise alone was worth upwards of $30 billion.

But there's no way a $30 billion valuation is even remotely accurate, given that George Lucas was willing to sell his entire company for roughly one-eighth of that.

Pelranius wrote:If Disney shoots the sequel trilogy out, to say, a decade or so past the Legacy Comics, it would allow them to continue milking the current EU for all it's worth.

LMSx wrote:*Snip*

Havok wrote:

Pelranius wrote:If Disney shoots the sequel trilogy out, to say, a decade or so past the Legacy Comics, it would allow them to continue milking the current EU for all it's worth.

I don't have any hard numbers, but creatively it is worth crap.

People need to get over this whole EU thing. The new movie makers and story writers are not going to sift through the mass of garbage that is the EU to find anything worth while. They will have their own ideas.

And if they do end up with some EU fanboy that has grown up with it that knows the ins-and-outs, then the franchise is doomed, because he would clearly be an idiot that doesn't recognize quality.