{"id":30961,"date":"2012-10-30T14:24:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T20:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/disney-to-buy-lucasfilm-make-a-new-star-wars-movie.html"},"modified":"2014-11-07T10:27:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T17:27:08","slug":"disney-to-buy-lucasfilm-make-a-new-star-wars-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/disney-to-buy-lucasfilm-make-a-new-star-wars-movie.html","title":{"rendered":"Disney to buy Lucasfilm, make a new &quot;Star Wars&quot; movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I&#39;ve triple-checked to make sure (a) it&#39;s not the beginning of April, and (b) this isn&#39;t &quot;The Onion&quot; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So buying Lucasfilm actually makes a lot of sense. \u00a0The two companies have worked together before (&quot;Star Tours&quot; being the most obvious). \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Plans to make an &quot;Episode 7&quot; are &#8230; interesting. Given that Lucas long ago let the post-<i>Return of the Jedi<\/i> canon shift over to books, and I suspect Disney will want to chart its own direction. \u00a0Cue many, many screams from that segment of the fandom.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, I don&#39;t worry whether Disney <i>can<\/i> make a decent Star Wars film &#8212; if nothing else, they will shine compared to what Lucas himself put out in <a class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%231-3\">#1-3<\/a> (and, honestly, might redeem a tarnished franchise). The question is, <i>should<\/i> they?<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images2-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/cdn3.sbnation.com\/entry_photo_images\/7176223\/Disney_large_large.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/10\/30\/3577656\/disney-buys-lucasfilm-plans-to-release-star-wars-episode-7-in-2015'>Disney buys Lucasfilm, plans to release &#8216;Star Wars: Episode 7&#8217; in 2015<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStar Wars fans, you might want to sit down for this one \u2014 The Walt Disney Company just announced its plans to purchase Lucasfilm Ltd from George Lucas, with plans to release Star Wars: Episode&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/ec7PkaXwEQ4' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I&#39;ve triple-checked to make sure (a) it&#39;s not the beginning of April, and (b) this isn&#39;t &quot;The Onion&quot; &#8230; So buying Lucasfilm actually makes a lot of sense. \u00a0The two companies have worked together before (&quot;Star Tours&quot; being the most obvious). \u00a0 Plans to make an &quot;Episode 7&quot; are &#8230; interesting. Given that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/disney-to-buy-lucasfilm-make-a-new-star-wars-movie.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Disney to buy Lucasfilm, make a new &quot;Star Wars&quot; movie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,45,35,263,28,41,372],"tags":[259],"class_list":["post-30961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-cartoons","category-big-business","category-disney","category-media-moguls","category-media-movies","category-star-wars-media-movies","tag-1-3"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49313,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/21\/best-star-wars-news-i-have-heard-to-date.html","url_meta":{"origin":30961,"position":0},"title":"Best &quot;Star Wars&quot; news I have heard to date","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Jan-15 10:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sure, George, that Disney and JJ Abrams gave your ideas for the next Star Wars movies all the consideration they were due. 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