No, They're Not Saying What You Think They're Saying

[lazypadawan]

All day I've been seeing posts and reports that Disney's forcing Lucasfilm to be a Star Wars factory, cranking out 2-3 movies a year. This is based on a report in the upcoming Enterpainment Weakly where Kathleen Kennedy informed Lucasfilm employees that the company will be producing 2-3 films a year. I did not see she said "Star Wars films." Just films. Meaning other projects besides Star Wars.

I sat through Disney's conference call with shareholders on October 30. Bob Iger had specified Star Wars films every 2-3 years, including this upcoming trilogy. He didn't say how many films in general Lucasfilm would be producing. Two different things, people.

From what I understand, when Kennedy was brought on board in the first place, I took that to mean that Lucasfilm was serious about producing all kinds of new material and not necessarily Star Wars. Now with Disney money and resources, they can finally get a back catalogue's worth of projects off the ground.

Comments

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been trying to figure out where people were getting the notion that there would be 2-3 new *Star Wars* films a year, too. Apparently, from not paying very much attention to what they were reading.

[gorengal.livejournal.com]

Sounds like people are taking the worst of Disney and the worst of Lucasfilm and assuming this new partnership will be the worst of both. I hate when people do that. :/