Good article on J.J's inspiration and plans: http://starwarsblog.starwars.com/index.php/2013/01/29/director-j-j-abrams-and-his-lifelong-appreciation-of-star-wars/
Why would Disney do that? Paying $4 billion and then telling a rival business "Hey, here's some relatively free promotion on our box office hit!" makes no sense whatsoever. It'll have the Disney castle logo, or perhaps a Star Wars-ized version of one. That's just the way it will be.Originally Posted by SilverWook
I would hope some sort of distribution deal could be worked out with Fox so the logo and fanfare will remain. It's too iconic to mess with.
That's more or less exactly what happened when Disney bought Marvel. Disney pays for, promotes and distributes the Marvel movies, yet they all have Paramount's logo on them, not Disney's.Brandon Conway said:Why would Disney do that? Paying $4 billion and then telling a rival business "Hey, here's some relatively free promotion on our box office hit!" makes no sense whatsoever.
Disney partnered with Paramount on a couple films in the 80's. (Dragonslayer and Popeye) I was naively hoping something like that could happen again to preserve what's part of the Star Wars experience. So sue me.Brandon Conway said:Why would Disney do that? Paying $4 billion and then telling a rival business "Hey, here's some relatively free promotion on our box office hit!" makes no sense whatsoever. It'll have the Disney castle logo, or perhaps a Star Wars-ized version of one. That's just the way it will be.
I'm sure some douche rocket will actually do that.Originally Posted by TravisR
Bring an iPod and play the Fox Fanfare right before the movie starts.
Originally Posted by TravisR
^ For the past few years, I haven't watched trailers (outside of a movie theater), I haven't read reviews & I haven't read spoilers (I was never big on that anyway) and it has increased my enjoyment of movie viewing immeasuarbly. I go to the movies enough that the odds are that I'll see the Episode VII trailer and I spend enough time on Star Wars sites that I'm bound to find out something about the plot, who's in it, etc., but I won't be freeze framing and analyzing every shot in the trailer so I think I will actually be surprised when I see the movie rather than sitting there thinking "Oh, there's that shot that I've been staring at on my computer for the last 4 months."
Give it a test run this summer by picking a movie that you know you want to see and try to go into it as spoiler-free as possible. Then after seeing the movie, go back and watch the trailer and TV spots, read reviews, plot synopsis, etc. and see how much those things would have revealed.
I tried it with The Dark Knight Rises and it worked except for the identity of Ra's Al Ghul's daughter.TravisR said:^ For the past few years, I haven't watched trailers (outside of a movie theater), I haven't read reviews & I haven't read spoilers (I was never big on that anyway) and it has increased my enjoyment of movie viewing immeasuarbly. I go to the movies enough that the odds are that I'll see the Episode VII trailer and I spend enough time on Star Wars sites that I'm bound to find out something about the plot, who's in it, etc., but I won't be freeze framing and analyzing every shot in the trailer so I think I will actually be surprised when I see the movie rather than sitting there thinking "Oh, there's that shot that I've been staring at on my computer for the last 4 months." Give it a test run this summer by picking a movie that you know you want to see and try to go into it as spoiler-free as possible. Then after seeing the movie, go back and watch the trailer and TV spots, read reviews, plot synopsis, etc. and see how much those things would have revealed.