Mickey Mouse meets Luke Skywalker
Forget the presidential election and Hurricane Sandy. There is only one breaking story today:
It’s a $4 billion cash-and-stock deal that only matters to you if you’re a Disney shareholder or George Lucas himself. The part that is attracting the most buzz is this line:
STAR WARS: EPISODE 7 feature film targeted for release in 2015.
Episodes 8 and 9 are scheduled to follow, with two to three years between each film.
I grew up watching the original Star Wars trilogy. But, in light of the three prequels that came out between 1999 and 2005 and featured the likes of Jar Jar Binks, I’m afraid to say my initial reaction to this news is somewhere between this:
and this:
If there is hope — ahem, “A New Hope” — it’s this: Lucas said it was time for him to pass the series on to “a new generation of filmmakers.” Which means he won’t be involved. Which means the next three movies might stand a fighting chance of being good in the hands of new filmmakers with fresh ideas.
Liberal or conservative, I hope we can agree on this: May the Force be with them.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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Chew Backer
October 30th, 2012
9:39 pm
The Phantom Menace, meet New Coke.
Georgia
October 30th, 2012
9:39 pm
Mickey Mouse has the range to play Darth Vader, Yoda, or even Java the Hut. The MouseMeister is our greatest actor, of that there can be no doubt. I love that little guy.
MICKEY!
Chew Backer
October 30th, 2012
9:42 pm
Were Emperor Palpatine and Barry 0bama born at the same hospital in Kenya?
Incidentally, both of them were Senators (for whom no one had a valid birth certificate or verified they weren’t members of The Sith) before a bunch of uneducated dumb masses voted each one into the highest office in the land.
CDog
October 30th, 2012
10:14 pm
Liberals declared war on the unborn in 1973 to the tune of 55,000,000 deaths. No GOP war comes even close. Abortion belongs in back alleys along with all other forms of murder.
Hillbilly D
October 30th, 2012
10:20 pm
No GOP war comes even close.
The first “GOP” war was 600,000+.
Randy Ayn
October 30th, 2012
10:50 pm
Liberals haven’t declared war on the unborn. They just want to give women the choice of having a child or not, and, in some cases, the ability to save their own life by not going through child birth. I’d be a lot more worried about conservatives who have declared war on the born (you know, actual humans – not “pre-people” or “unborn” or whatever the code word is today) by denying them health care.
Chew Backer
October 30th, 2012
10:57 pm
RE: “They just want to give women the choice of having a child or not…” – Randy Ayn @ 10:50 pm
Randy Ayn,
Women made the collective choice to have a child when they CHOSE to spread their legs like peanut butter for some low-quality guy who didn’t have a protective rain coat on Mr. Wobbly Finger.
see also: Padme Amidala Skywalker
wallbanger
October 30th, 2012
11:15 pm
What this means is that George Lucas and Kathleen kennedy, will become richer than they already are and Disney will scalp off all he can use of the Lucas properties, and then fire about half the people who currently work at Lucas. Big whoop. In this case, it makes me sick.
@@
October 31st, 2012
6:55 am
Woke up to read this from Kyle.
All I have to say about the Jeep thing is: I don’t know if the Romney campaign got some bad information, misread the Bloomberg story, or what. It would appear they got it wrong.
Romney’s ad isn’t a lie….everything he said in it is true. Misleading? Yes. A lie? No.
It’s not as if Obama hasn’t admitted to his campaigns misleading ads as well.
It’s the way politics are played these days.
Obama accuses Romney of outsourcing jobs to China and Romney turns the tables on Obama. Liberals believe one but not the other. Right thinking conservatives see it for what it is.
Liberal thinking is plagued by emotions. Conservative thinking is logical.
Off to work.
@@
October 31st, 2012
7:05 am
To quote in his interview with Steve Kroft of “60 Minutes”.
Obama—”"Do we see sometimes us going overboard in our campaign– mistakes that are made, or areas where there’s no doubt that somebody could dispute how we are presenting things? That happens in politics,” Obama said.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/23/obama-campaign-ads_n_1908281.html
Georgia
October 31st, 2012
7:13 am
The history of the Korean War: A civilian wouldn’t take one step down the nuclear path in order to unite the two Koreas and secure freedom for them from the Communists. A general in the field miscalculated when he considered the Communist Chinese reaction to his own offensive moves, but insisted he knew how the Chinese would react to a nuclear strike. “General, your fired”. Thank God for civilians.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
October 31st, 2012
8:00 am
Will will Romney be today on his “Get Out the Lie” campaign?
AtlSteve
October 31st, 2012
8:08 am
I need an X-wing fighter for this upcoming war with Iran. Does anyone know where I can get a good used one? Please, no more than 200 light years on the odometer.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
October 31st, 2012
8:57 am
“Will will Romney be today on his “Get Out the Lie” campaign?”
I don’t believe Romney will be stumping for Obama today, Finn.
flagboy?
October 31st, 2012
9:03 am
Ah. . . a blog comment about star wars and disney turns into a discussion about which guy is going to drive up gas prices.
I hope episodes 7, 8, and 9 are good. I will be watching them in the theater for certain.
Lambeau
October 31st, 2012
9:19 am
I Report, earlier you said The Sopranos… yes. SO good. That and Breaking Bad are two of my favorites.
Granaduk
October 31st, 2012
9:22 am
This article is is an example of why I quit subscribing to the Atlanta Journal. I want NEWS not fluff and biased opinion;
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
October 31st, 2012
9:22 am
I always thought the idea of a prequel designed to tell us how we got to the first movie was good, but I thought the execution was poor and relied on whiz-bang special effects too much and story too little.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
October 31st, 2012
9:25 am
In the immortal words of Sgt. Hulka, Granaduk, “Lighten up, Francis . . .”
Kyle Wingfield
October 31st, 2012
9:29 am
Granaduk: If you don’t want opinion, don’t wander onto the opinion blogs. If you don’t want “fluff,” read just about any other post on my blog. I don’t do these kind of posts often.
Rush
October 31st, 2012
9:34 am
My goodness what a sad sack bunch of complainers…..Kyle asks for an opinion on something other than politics and some of you cannot put away your attack dog mentality. Lighten up and enjoy a day of life for a moment or two.
Rush
October 31st, 2012
9:36 am
Tiberius…..looks like I was typing same message…..Stripes……………….also nice line from the movie…”That’s a fact, Jack”.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
October 31st, 2012
9:41 am
And Kyle, is there really such a thing as “unbiased” opinion?
Kyle Wingfield
October 31st, 2012
9:48 am
Tiberius @ 9:41: Of course there’s such a thing as an unbiased opinion! Just ask anyone on earth about their own opinion, and they’ll tell you so.
RW-(the original)
October 31st, 2012
9:48 am
I let my mind wander. I was in the bar scene of Star Wars (the original).
See anybody from this blog there?
With a name like Star Wars (the original) it sounds like some distant relative of mine she was hanging out with.
Emperor Palpatine
October 31st, 2012
9:56 am
The HATE for hardworking, conservative, Christian Caucasian-Americans is STROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNGGGGGGGG with You, 0bama Supporters!
I can FEEL your anger…
You have every right to HATE them. They make all those confusing laws for you to obey.
Let The HATE flow through you.
YESSSSSSSSSSS……
YESSSSSSSSSSS…….
Rightwing Troll
October 31st, 2012
9:57 am
Lord please… no ewoks or Jar Jar’s….
Cutty
October 31st, 2012
10:01 am
Nice deflection w the Boeing comeback, Wingfield. And its an example of a larger point that you seem to rail against ‘liberals’, of which I’m not, while continuing to allow your party to skate on a number of issues. Ethics being the exception. You were against T-Splost because of your mistrust of government. But somehow are for the charter school amendment. What changed?
Deal has shown that he likes appointing cronies to key positions. Heck, look at the tiff between he and the state Superintendent. Nothing on his shady land deal in Hall from you either and that was weeks ago. No you don’t have to write about the election all the time, but there sure as he77 is A lot right under your nose that you’ve missed as an opinion writer. The question is, how come? Looks like partisanship to me. Attack Obama and let Shady Deal, Romney, etc slide. Even Bookman gives it to democrats once every blue moon.
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
October 31st, 2012
10:24 am
The only people more partisan than the opinion columnist on this blog are the people who complain about his partisanship.
Kyle Wingfield
October 31st, 2012
11:42 am
Cutty @ 10:01: “Nice deflection w the Boeing comeback”
Nice deflection, yourself. At least I acknowledged that Romney appears to have gotten his facts wrong on the Jeep story. You’ve simply dodged the question I raised.
“You were against T-Splost because of your mistrust of government. But somehow are for the charter school amendment. What changed?”
Actually, I never said I opposed T-SPLOST because of mistrust of government; I took a long, hard look at the project list and decided it wasn’t worth the money. I did argue that mistrust in government was the leading reason the electorate turned down the metro Atlanta T-SPLOST, based on what I heard from individuals and groups that opposed it. Don’t conflate the two.
I would argue, to those who oppose the charter schools amendment because of mistrust of government, that we are talking about two entirely different scales of action. Even if John Barge is correct in predicting $430M in costs over five years, that pales in comparison to the $8B over 10 years that T-SPLOST would have represented in metro Atlanta alone. While there’s always an opportunity for cronyism and corruption in any government endeavor, I believe the risk of that is relatively low because of the earlier charter schools commission’s clean track record, while the potential reward is great.
I’ve criticized Georgia Republicans numerous times on this blog and in my print column. Some people choose not to notice.