I had a heart attack when I read this...

[greenfairy]

No, his heart is buried in a secret place that no one know about, like every dark lord of the underworld.

Oh right, makes sense with the robot thing.

 

[Poindexter Arachnid]

A friend just posted this on his Facebook.
Doubt it is real, but if it is I like it.

 

[The Ü™]

A friend just posted this on his Facebook.
Doubt it is real, but if it is I like it.

Clearly not real. It doesn't say "Disney's" above the title.

But the lens flare on the lightsaber was a nice JJ Abrams-styled touch.

 

[Totenkindly]

Oh right, makes sense with the robot thing.

 

[Poindexter Arachnid]

Clearly not real. It doesn't say "Disney's" above the title.

But the lens flare on the lightsaber was a nice JJ Abrams-styled touch.

You're right--it isn't real. No Disney brand logo, no "Star Wars" logo, no IMAX or Real-D endorsement.
Either way, I suspect this will be superior to the generic teaser poster Disney will release down the line.

Plays on the Star Wars iconography VERY WELL otherwise.

 

[The Ü™]

Disney shut down LucasArts...figures.

Forget about you whiners...ahem...whining about George Lucas and the prequels. THIS is raping and murdering your childhood.

 

[The Ü™]

The best thing ever. What do you think, [MENTION=5159]Lexicon[/MENTION]?

Now all we need is ILM and Skywalker Sound to return. [MENTION=325]EffEmDoubleyou[/MENTION], you're in that biz, can you confirm? Or is Disney gonna go cheap and do the post production in London?

Speaking of which, we need to have the 20th Century Fox fanfare followed by the Lucasfilm logo...THEN the circle will be complete.

 

[Lexicon]

The best thing ever. What do you think, [MENTION=5159]Lexicon[/MENTION]?

 

[Society]

so... did anyone expect anything good coming form lucas retaining the star wars franchise?

i can understand somewhat some disgruntledness at disney's IPs hoarding practices... but i'm dumbfounded by the reaction - wtf is there for the star wars franchise to lose? certainly not it's dignity.

 

[EffEmDoubleyou]

The best thing ever. What do you think, [MENTION=5159]Lexicon[/MENTION]?

Now all we need is ILM and Skywalker Sound to return. [MENTION=325]EffEmDoubleyou[/MENTION], you're in that biz, can you confirm? Or is Disney gonna go cheap and do the post production in London?

Speaking of which, we need to have the 20th Century Fox fanfare followed by the Lucasfilm logo...THEN the circle will be complete.

Where to post a movie is usually the director's call for someone with Abrams' status. I'd look where he posted his last few and that might be the answer. My guess is they'll post at Skywalker and Abrams will not put up a fight.

 

[Jonny]

I'm sad to hear about your medical issues. There was another young guy who also had a heart attack. His happened on Christmas day, and he died. His name was Ben Breedlove, and he suffered from Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). I'll pray for you.

 

[The Ü™]

Aren't you an atheist?

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

so... did anyone expect anything good coming form lucas retaining the star wars franchise?

i can understand somewhat some disgruntledness at disney's IPs hoarding practices... but i'm dumbfounded by the reaction - wtf is there for the star wars franchise to lose? certainly not it's dignity.

This is how I feel. Actually, I think this is promising. It probably won't be like "old Star Wars" but I think it has a very high potential to be good. Of course, some people can't let go of griping about "Klingon forehead ridges" level shit. I can't see it being more disappointing than Episode III.

We were just going to keep getting more ridiculous "tweaks" and "improvements" to the movies. There will be much bitching about this in the fanbase, but the fanbase will continue to buy the latest holocube release anyway. We probably wouldn't get any new movies, but we'd get lot of enhancements that don't really add anything and are distracting more than anything else. Puppets replaced with shitty CG that doesn't match with anything else, that sort of hogwash. Meanwhile the shitty writing/editing in Episode III would not be corrected.