Disney buying LucasFilm, Releasing Star Wars episode 7 in 2015

Obi Wan season 2! Hopefully better than season 1.

Eww. Link? All I'm seeing is a ****ton of speculation based on Ewan MacGregor saying he'd be open to it or whatever.

If Obi Wan season 2 was greenlit, I assume McGregor would have specifically talked about that on Monday night when he was on Jimmy Kimmel at ABC which is also owned by Disney?

With Andor season 2 pushed back to (at least) 2025 I wouldn't hold my breath about anything officially announced soon.

What a ****show Disney is right now. They spent so much time and effort on vanity projects they can't even get the only decent Star Wars show left out on schedule.

In other news ELON might buy Disney and is funding Gina Carano's lawsuit for being fired for having the wrong political views.

Go ELON.

The show that does best for them financially is the one that gets the movie treatment now.

That's obviously a publicity stunt. If there was any realistic chance of Carano winning the lawsuit or getting a settlement she would have had a line of lawyers trying to take the case and get a piece of that.

Carano first bailed on a million bucks to fight Ronda Rousey to focus on her movie career instead and sabotaged it with her social media activity when it finally was starting to take off. Now she basically has to chum up to the right wing crowd because nobody else is going to pay her.

FWIW I don't agree with most of the posts that got Carano into trouble, but they are no worse than Pedro Pascal's, they are just not to Disney's taste.

And lets face it, Disney deserve a kicking. They are quite happy to drive Marvel and Star Wars off a cliff by hiring box-ticking writers and directors, so it's good to see them setting fire to billions of dollars with one failing project after another.

As a guy who loves (loved) the franchise, it's unfortunately not much comfort to see Disney shitting the bed like this.

With any other company there would be hope that this accelerates the process of giving up, cutting their losses and selling it to someone that would treat it competently, but Disney is insanely unlikely to do that. If it gets bad enough they probably just shelve it completely, or more likely they continue to **** out content that no one asked for, filling it with memberberries and little moments that try to prop up Episodes 7-9 and show "how it's all interconnected and this helps explain how it was all meticulously planned after all and really you have to consume all the content to really understand the complexity of modern SW" lol.

the question isnt whether or not Disney buys Lucas... we know that story.
the question is, is someone going to buy Disney?
and I think we know who that might be.

Disney had a tremendous amount of commercial failures over the last couple years but I don't think anything Star Wars is among them. They made the smart decision to pause movies after the Solo and Episode IX failure. I have no idea how much money they actually spend on the Disney+ shows but everything looks pretty cheap. Meanwhile they keep printing on theme park attractions and merch.

Where Disney is bleeding money is on absurdly expensive movies that nobody wants to see like Haunted Mansion.

Probably also a smart decision to have Mando & Grogu as the next movie. If that one misfires they might stop releasing big screen stuff for another decade.

They also committed to a big screen Rey trilogy, which no one wants. Well, committed in so far as every other franchise than announces a trilogy and then shelves it when the first movie bombs.

"Committed" might be too strong of a word. In addition to that Rey movie they also announced a James Mangold and a Dave Filoni movie. We already know one of those 3 isn't happening, at least not in the slots of May 2026, December 2026 and December 2027 that Disney blocked for Star Wars movies.

Maybe The Mandalorian & Grogu makes it to May 2026. But with everything else being delayed I wouldn't be suprised if the May 26 slot goes to a non-Star Wars movie, Mando arrives Christmas 26 and one of the other 3 announced projects gets the Christmas 27 slot.

Yeah given their recent track record of announcing stuff with great fanfare and then quietly shelving it, I wouldn't be surprised if only 1 of those 3 get made at most.

Also FWIW, I'm pretty sure the Rey spinoff is only one movie, it got falsely reported as a trilogy early on and that just got repeated ad infinitum. Still agree that zero people want to see that, probably a significant portion of the ones that might have been open to it are the Reylo types who now don't care since they can no longer explore the weird ****ing relationship between Rey and Kylo.

Was she even fired? From what I recall Disney just didn't hire her again for the next season.

The statement was pretty clear as to why she was "not currently employed by Lucasfilm". In 99% of cases, they end this bit with "we wish her well with her future endeavours" rather than throwing her under the bus.

it basically looks like it was written by a DEI intern, and I'd be surprised if they don't settle out of court rather than comply with a FOI request.

Don't they specifically use the word "nevertheless" to make sure the two parts of the statement are unrelated? Even though everybody knows they're not.

What makes you think that while she was unable to find a regular lawyer over the last two years there's still a good chance Disney is going to settle for any meaningful money? I wouldn't even be surprised if Disney was happy about the new publicity because that obviously fits well with their agenda.

I doubt she is wealthy enough to take on Disney with a non-zero risk of losing and having to pay their costs. On the other hand, it's chump change to Musk and obviously fits well with his agenda.

I try to make it a point to not to pre-judge anything based on a trailer or hype (or lack of hype), so I won't. But if I had to grade The Acolyte trailer itself, it's zero stars. And it's not because it lacks white guys.

At very least no one will accuse them of making a trailer that "spoils all the good stuff." Unless the good stuff is the rehashed fan fiction style dialogue and what a mystery bad guy throwing a lightsaber? Which will probably just be Darth So-and-So from some book or comic that gets the super-nerds jizzing and screaming on YouTube reaction vids.

None of the writers of The Acolyte have any previous connection to Star Wars, right? I've read in an interview with Leslye Headland, the show runner, that she even decided to hire one writer who never had watched Star Wars.

FWIW and no idea how much intel Stellan Skarsgård has, but he said that Andor S2 might actually start before the end of the year. No idea if that's even possible if Skeleton Crew doesn't get a release before November?

I feel like Andor is more like the least worst. It was okay but then go watch something like Shogun later and the gap is enormous.

And honestly I don't have a problem with Disney bringing people new to Star Wars in to handle new projects, in fact I think I'd prefer it. And while they're at it get whatever continuity committee they have to **** off and get out of the way. I can live with mistakes and continuity errors if the story works.

Yeah but it just goes to show that the bar doesn't even need to be that high, combine OK writing with the SW universe and it's pure gold for most fans. But they've so rarely even managed to reach that level.

I don't know, but I asked someone at work who generally likes the newer stuff who his favorite villain in the Disney+ show era was and he said Moff Gideon.

Granted, Darth Vader is always in the discussion for GOAT villain and a hard act to follow. But honestly there are more compelling villains in Happy Gilmore than Moff Gideon.

Lucas wants back in to the Star Wars universe... seeing as Disney f*cked the entire franchise up.

Who else is there though?