Disney’s good film record keeps galaxy in safe hands
How on Earth could anyone be talking about politics at a time like this? George Lucas recently dealt LucasFilm to Disney for a handsome $4.05 billion, and while blasé mice and men blindly discuss pedantic matters such as the next four years of the world’s most powerful country, the truly refined sophisticates are philosophizing over a far more pressing matter: the fate of the world’s favorite space opera.
Millions of fan boys and girls across the planet stricken with severe cases of acute anxiety regarding the potential tarnishing of their childhood and adulthood’s sanctity alike are going largely ignored by the big government that only pretends to distract itself with such facades as the U.S.’s unemployment and, my personal favorite government sanctioned myth, energy independence. What humanity desperately needs right now is an answer from a real spokesperson who truly believes in what he’s saying regarding the next “Star Wars” film, to be released in 2015, with two more to be released in the subsequent six years.
It’s good thing that I, a completely amateur film critic who’s largely-but-not-overly knowledgeable in “Star Wars” lore and Disney history and also just so happens to be more than ready for the election fever to subside, am ready to tell everyone that it’s all going to be OK. Disney doesn’t exactly have a history of screwing things up. In fact, can anyone even name the last Disney movie they saw that was actually bad? I sure can’t.
What’s more reassuring is that Disney made a similar acquisition a few years ago when it bought Marvel Entertainment, the company that brought us Spider-Man, Iron Man, the X-Men and many more comic book creations and their respective movies. Prior to that deal, superhero movies weren’t all what they were cracked up to be, apart from maybe “Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight.” We saw huge, awkward flops, such as the Fantastic Four and Hulk movies, revitalized by Disney and made worthy of our viewing in the form of “The Avengers” and its individual heroes’ movies. More importantly, it turned movies that were once nothing but an epileptic’s nightmare of a special effects showcase, a la “Transformers,” into storytelling rarely seen in the genre before. It’s clear that Disney and all of its subsidiaries know how to tell a story, which is probably the most critical part of the “Star Wars” series’ success.
Only time can tell us where the “Star Wars” saga will continue to, but we all ought to trust Disney and its history of making fantastic movies time and time again. George Lucas couldn’t have handed the reins over to a better successor, and the man himself will be on board as a creative consultant to continue to bring balance to the force that is the “Star Wars” universe.