Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)

[Aquel]

Originally Posted by Anth0ny

Fox still owns the theatrical/home release rights of I-VI until 2020.

So if we ever get the original, unaltered trilogy, it would have to wait until then. Maybe as a part of the I-IX box set?

Possibly, as Ep. 7 is slated to be released in 2015, with the others following every other year (so 2017 and 2019). It would come right in time for the 1-9 boxset. But of course, as has been mentioned, Episode IV is still owned by Fox indefinitely so that can be an obstacle.

Personally I hope for a 4K medium release then with at least the original and newest versions restored (so an actual 4K scan), so we can end this destructive conflict and bring peace to the internet or we will continue to have civil war with no end..

[WorkShed]

Originally Posted by Jumpman

But knowing Fox, here's the deal that gets made; Disney will let them keep Episode IV if they give back Daredevil, Fantastic Four, and the X-Men characters.

Who knows? Maybe Fox says they'll keep the Marvel characters and outright give Disney Episode IV.

Disney already has Daredevil. The character was just given back to them. Fox would be stupid to give Marvel back X-Men. It is a big franchise for them.

Star Wars: Episode IV won't keep making money for Fox. They may as well sell it outright.

[Jumpman]

Originally Posted by WorkShed

Disney already has Daredevil. The character was just given back to them. Fox would be stupid to give Marvel back X-Men. It is a big franchise for them.

Star Wars: Episode IV won't keep making money for Fox. They may as well sell it outright.

Forget about the Daredevil exasperation.

Yeah, they could outright sell it but, from a legacy standpoint, I'd keep it, no matter what. Make Disney sweat...

[Dynamo of Eternia]

Originally Posted by MacEachaidh

After "John Carter", we can hardly look to Disney as the saviour of a franchise like Star Wars, or just assume it will be able to do much better with the new trilogy than Lucas did with the last one.

Are you basing this on your opinion of the John Carter film, itself, or the fact that it didn't make back it's money at the box office?

I have yet to see the movie myself (I did blind buy it a while back since I had a coupon, but I haven't checked it out yet), but I've heard some decent things about it. Not that it was the greatest movie ever or anything, but worth checking out.

The biggest reason for it doing "poorly" at the box office was because of how much was spent making it in the first place.

It's estimated that they spent somewhere between $250 and $350 million dollars on the film.... an absurd budget by most any standard (Lucas only spent about $115 Million per prequel film by comparison, and those films would have definitely made back their money plus profit no matter what, even if they had cost $350 million to make). The end world wide box office intake for John Carter was about $282 million. Had the upfront budget been more reasonable, it would have been a successful film. Not the most successful of all time or anything, but successful none the less.

Being that Star Wars is a much more well known and recognized franchise, and given that Disney has hopefully learned their lesson about over-spending on a movie, I'm not worried about the new Star Wars films in that respect.

Originally Posted by Duffy12

http://www.torontosun.com/entertainm...enn-story.html


Kinda makes sense now. Huh?

Not really. If Lucas truly believed that the world was going to end within the next couple of months, why even bother selling Lucasfilm? What the hell good is 4 billion dollars going to do him if we are all supposedly going to be dead in the near future?

[Brightstar]

Originally Posted by Breather

If Lucas sold the theatrical cuts to Disney, then Disney would have to decide to restore and release them, then have Fox distribute. Fox doesn't own the films but they currently own the distribution rights on 1-6. I have a feeling that will change in the near future. It wouldn't surprise me to see Disney offer Fox loads of cash to buyout the distribution deal early.

If Lucas somehow kept the theatrical cuts out of the deal with Disney, he would have to decide to restore and release them and work out the details with Fox for distribution.

No one has any official information on the details of the deal regarding the UOT right now. My best guess is that he sold those too. On the other hand, who knows? He may have kept ownership of the UOT and the craptastic Holiday Special just so they could never be seen again. I hope not, at least on the former.

I hope that's not true

[beadelf]

Originally Posted by starfantasy

no more fox fanfare, no more lucafilm logo how sad all we ever wanted was three simple classic films on blu ray not one big mess

so from now on every film that had the lucasfilm logo will have the disney castle instead...so re-releases of the oringinals will have the 20th century fanfare (even though thats included on the soundtracks) removed and no lucasfilm????? hahahah what will happen to the paramount logo at start of raiders if disney get full control over them?

[Brightstar]

Originally Posted by beadelf

so from now on every film that had the lucasfilm logo will have the disney castle instead...so re-releases of the oringinals will have the 20th century fanfare (even though thats included on the soundtracks) removed and no lucasfilm????? hahahah what will happen to the paramount logo at start of raiders if disney get full control over them?

maybe anyway In a 2004 interview, Hamill said: "You know, when I first did this, it was four trilogies. 12 movies!

Looks like we are getting 12 movies after all the saga will never be complete

http://starwarsblog.starwars.com/ind...s-vii-viii-ix/

[aiman04]

Someone has made a new intro for Star Wars with Disney logo, and Fox quickly show who's the boss by blocking it.

Star Wars with Disney Logo - YouTube

[Jumpman]

George Lucas does it again. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...as-will-384947

First with the Pledge, now this.

[Brightstar]

Lucas has brain washed fans so they can forget about the UOT trilogy forever that is why EP 7-9 is happening

[NYorker]

If Fox still owns the distribution/video rights, how will it affect the chances of seeing a re-release of the SW blu ray?

[Jumpman]

Originally Posted by NYorker

If Fox still owns the distribution/video rights, how will it affect the chances of seeing a re-release of the SW blu ray?

Fox owns Episode IV. The effect will be that if they don't come to some sort of agreement with Disney, you won't see a box set of all the films together. That's the effect.

[Brightstar]

Originally Posted by Jumpman

Fox owns Episode IV. The effect will be that if they don't come to some sort of agreement with Disney, you won't see a box set of all the films together. That's the effect.

Fox owns the original theatrical cuts until 2020

[BozQ]

Fox owns the theatrical cuts?
Wasn't it Lucasfilm that owns everything?

[Brightstar]

Originally Posted by BozQ

Fox owns the theatrical cuts?
Wasn't it Lucasfilm that owns everything?

Fox owns Episode IV not sure about 5, and 6

[Brightstar]

Mark Hamill gobsmacked when he found out about more star wars movies

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/n...skywalker.html

[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by Dynamo of Eternia

Not really. If Lucas truly believed that the world was going to end within the next couple of months, why even bother selling Lucasfilm? What the hell good is 4 billion dollars going to do him if we are all supposedly going to be dead in the near future?

Ha!

I knew that somebody was going to bring this up.

Its REALLY simple. He can now take the money and donate it to a charity to save his soul for all the WRONGDOING that he has done to the fans throughout the years.



Orrrr...


he could just blow it all at - - -

[Show spoiler]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwAw9ThDQmk

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[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by Jumpman

George Lucas does it again. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...as-will-384947

First with the Pledge, now this.

See. I told ya.

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[MacEachaidh]

Originally Posted by starfantasy

Mark Hamill gobsmacked when he found out about more star wars movies

I don't want to see him cry when they tell him his part will have to be recast, though.

[Takeshi666]

Originally Posted by Jumpman

With this new deal now, Fox can pretty much do what it wants with Episode IV, unless Lucas has also struck a deal with Fox about that film and which versions can be seen to the public after he's gone.

That's what I'm worried about.

How sad is it that you have to place more faith in media corporations to uphold artistic integrity than the original artist?