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Star Trek vs. Star Wars (and a collection of memes)

Star Trek or Star Wars; which do you like better?

  • Star Trek

    Votes: 19 23.8%

  • Star Wars

    Votes: 61 76.3%
  • Total voters
    80
NIGHTBRINGER said:
I really can't see Disney selling Lucasfilm, but I REALLY can't see them selling it back to George Lucas. Imagine what a massive admittance of failure that would be. Plus, what would they do then? Create new IP/content?... that's not really something they do very much of now.

On the other side, I am highly skeptical that Lucas would want reacquire Lucasfilm. He had enough of it a decade ago and he is nearly 80 years old now. I doubt he has much desire to take on such responsibility again. Secondly, does it make financial sense for him to do so? He gave away a large portion of the 4 billion dollars he made off the sale to charity. According to a quick Google search, he is still has a net worth of somewhere in the vicinity of $5 billion USD. So the question is: how much is Lucasfilm worth today? How much would Disney be willing to sell it for? Is Lucas really going to liquidate all his assets to reacquire it? Would he go into debt? Would he be willing to share ownership with partners?
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I agree. I think this all just internet hype. I wish Lucas hadn't sold it, but I don't think he could (or would) buy it back (even if it were true).

NIGHTBRINGER said:
Assuming he did reacquire it, sky's the limit. When you've hit rock bottom (as Star Wars has), the only place to go is up. People are starving for non-woke Star Wars content. In today's Hollywood climate, even mediocre non-woke content (that stays true to what came before) is lauded and praised. The first couple of seasons of the Mandalorian are a prime example of this. Plus, the fact that it would be run by its creator again would immediately bring a lot of Star Wars fans back. Instant credibility.

I think the best case scenario would be for Lucas to oversee things at a top level while bringing in talented film makers to actually create the new movies/shows. I'd love to see something like the Nolan Batman trilogy in the Star Wars universe. Or what could James Cameron do (if he is ever done with Avatar)? What about Denis Villeneuve? Maybe he could coax Quentin Tarantino to make an interesting one-off movie (longshot, but you never know). Maybe bring back Genndy Tartakovsky. That's just to name a few. I'm not sure how many of them would be open to create something in the Star Wars universe, but some will.

We may have missed the boat with Han, Leia and Luke, but there are plenty of great stories to be told. Sign me up for a Darth Bane trilogy. Revan is uber popular. With Lucas on board, they can come up with entirely new stuff and just have him okay it.
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I don't know how well Lucas plays with others, and I'm not sure how I'd feel about some of those directors, but who knows?

*To digress, how cool would it have been to let Genndy Tartakovsky direct a Mandalorian episode? I feel like he would have been a good fit for the original vibe of the show. To digress a bit more, I lament that the Mandalorian wasn't the Boba Fett series. What I mean is that, as a kid, I was instantly fascinated by all of those "bounty hunter scum" in ESB. How cool would it have been to have Boba Fett's adventures as a bounty hunter and occasionally running into those other rogues like Zucchus, 4-LOM, Bossk, Dengar, etc? In fact, I think Disney basically tried to hit those "member berries" by bringing in the IG droid and the Trandoshan fight into the first couple episodes of Mando.*

Regardless, Lucas overseeing things (or executive producing) seems logical. Maybe he could come up with some story ideas as well? I agree that Lucas being connected would likely restore fan appeal for Star Wars.
 
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