With Star Wars coming to Disney, this could actually mean great things for the Rebel Alliance.
George Lucas at the "Last Tour to Endor" celebration at Walt Disney World in August 2010.
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When today's news broke that the Disney Corporation was going to purchase the fabled Lucasfilm for a reported $4.05 billion, Star Wars fans braced themselves for another round of misguided exploitation. The Ewoks, it would seem, are soon to be frogmarched to join Goofy on stage at the Tomorrowland Terrace.
But things might not be all that grim for the faithful. In Disney, Star Wars has an owner with a well-established track record in swallowing outside creations; after all, the Muppets, Pixar, and the Marvel Universe have all in recent years found themselves making a new home in the Magic Kingdom.
Based on their experience, here's what the Jedis can expect.
Disney is not a company to let a multibillion dollar franchise sit on the shelf. With its Marvel acquisition, Disney has shown a willingness to pour on unlimited coal, making the comic book line the most dependable, year in, year out blockbuster machine in entertainment today. Already the announcement came with the word that the almost mythical episode seven, for which the world had all but given up hope, will soon be going before the cameras.
While Disney Inc of recent years is known more for its ability to market a francise than to weave dreams out of whole cloth, its releases do, by and large, live up to a certain standard of filmmaking. One is not likely to see such an inexplicable misstep as Jar Jar Binks make it to the screen under the Disney banner. While last summer's John Carter proved the rare fiasco for the company, self-indulgent mistakes remain the exception for the company that keeps the Iron Man and Pirates of the Carribean machines pumping.
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