Lucasfilm 50th Anniversary -- Special products coming

[Faleel 5,340]

15 minutes ago, Jay said:

Is it?  I certainly didn't see it when I I went out to see any of the 5 theatrical Disney films.  Have they retroactively added it to the top of the Disney+ versions now that the Fox purchase is complete?

Only the original films 123456.

[Jay 37,319]

OK, but my posts were only talking about new Disney productions, not the old films

[Disco Stu 15,495]

I'm pretty sure it will only be in the ones originally distributed by 20th Century Fox, a movie studio that does not exist anymore.  Why would they add it to movies that were not?  Just as a nostalgia thing?

[Chen G. 3,944]

Yeah, it doesn't really make sense.

 

I wouldn't mind its omission for the other films, either, had Williams not re-recorded the fanfare for The Empire Strikes Back, ostensibly making it an integral part of the presentation.

[Jay 37,319]

5 minutes ago, Disco Stu said:

I'm pretty sure it will only be in the ones originally distributed by 20th Century Fox, a movie studio that does not exist anymore.  Why would they add it to movies that were not?  Just as a nostalgia thing?

 

That's my point - I was talking about the new movies, I dunno why Chen brought it up >shrug<

 

All I was ever saying was that it would have been nice if JW wrote a fanfare for the new Disney content

[Disco Stu 15,495]

2 minutes ago, Jay said:

it would have been nice if JW wrote a fanfare for the new Disney content

 

I agree!

[Chen G. 3,944]

2 minutes ago, Jay said:

it would have been nice if JW wrote a fanfare for the new Disney content

 

Huh, I hadn't considered that idea before! Quite right!

[Jay 37,319]

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[Faleel 5,340]

Humor, it is a difficult concept.

[igger6 894]

The new logo is fine, although I think it looks too modern, while the aesthetic of Star Wars has always leaned more toward nostalgic and deliberately old-timey design, nothing slick or shiny.  This looks like an animated logo for the company that designed the Naboo starfighter (always the most incongruous-looking Star Wars ship in my book). 

 

The logo's music, though, fails to echo either the melody or texture of any familiar Star Wars sound.  I admit that I don't really know the Blake Neely sound, but I used him because his Flash theme is a prominent recent member of the fast-minor-arpeggio club that, to me, is the antithesis of Star Wars.  As a card-carrying musical curmudgeon who's only tolerating Ludwig's outlier approach to Star Wars scoring, and as somebody for whom the symphonic (not just orchestral, and certainly not synth-orchestral) sound of Star Wars is the sonic equivalent of its nostalgic visual aesthetic, this logo seems both visually and aurally dissonant.

 

I recently said to someone that I think the most fitting additions to the Star Wars universe are the ones inspired by real-world elements that existed before 1977.  That's why the WWI-looking troops on Corvus in Mandalorian Chapter 13 look appropriate to me, even if that hasn't been a primary source of the aesthetic so far, while, say, a pinch-and-zoom touchscreen in a spaceship cockpit would look out-of-place.  That's also why synths and electrics, by and large, take me out of the score (including in "The Chase Through Coruscant"), while, say, the bass clarinet does not.  I know Williams dabbled in synths here and there, but the main aesthetic was what it was―because Williams chose to make it that way, not because it was all he knew how to do.  That's mostly blown out of the water in Mando, and it's thrown into sharpest relief when the old sound does show up.  It's interesting to me because the show leans so hard into the visual aesthetic but departs so strongly from the aural.  The new logo seems to depart in both ways.

 

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[SilverTrumpet 638]

I love how the first thing they do when they say they want to celebrate half a century of existence is "You will buy product".

[Smeltington 1,436]

It's not even the anniversary of Star Wars. I assume we're also getting American Graffiti merch?

[bruce marshall 1,315]

I would love to have a model of Ford's car!

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

THX-1138 merch?

[Naïve Old Fart 9,507]

Geez Louise. "Merch" this, "merch" that. Nothing actually worth buying.

 

"Big money selling you stuff that you really do not need".

[Jurassic Shark 12,033]

Why do people keep buying this shit then?

[bruce marshall 1,315]

5 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Why do people keep buying this shit then?

Because Tin Man, SOB and Fart keep buying them!

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I just buy Godzilla dolls.

[Quintus 5,399]

20 hours ago, Jay said:

I do 100% agree that Kathleen Kennedy should have asked John Williams to compose a proper fanfare that got recorded at the TFA sessions, and that should be used on all the movies and TV shows

 

She should have called him up to do one last job? Yeah sure, we all know how well that goes... 

 

 

[Andy 4,089]

Always would've liked the lucasfilm logo tracked with the short transition from TPM during the Coruscant taxi segue.

 

They used it for the Behind the Magic CD-Rom, and evidently the X-Wing Alliance game

 

 

It works better without the annoying animation and sound effects.

[blondheim 1,157]

I like the new logo just fine. Obviously it would be better if Williams had done it, but it would be awkward now if that fanfare was the last composed music for Star Wars. If they had done it at TFA sessions it would have been spectacular.  But now, let the Main Titles end the final End Titles as intended, full circle

[Edmilson 7,395]

Not a fan of the music for the Star Wars logo. 

 

Why not ask Williams to write something? Perhaps he was too busy with 9385375647465 revisions Abrams asked him to do?

[Jurassic Shark 12,033]

He wasn't asked because he'd require a proper orchestra.

[Joni Wiljami 1,206]

Ok I hope I not going to be sued but there will be complete scores for the sw sequels (7-9) and music only (like last jedi) versions of them. 

[Bounty95 558]

20 minutes ago, theBT said:

Ok I hope I not going to be sued but there will be complete scores for the sw sequels (7-9) and music only (like last jedi) versions of them. 

 

This better be true or else this will feel like she tells you she's on her period on the third date. 

[Evanus 217]

Wouldn't that be like, hella expensive? With the post 2005 LA fees etc?

[crumbs 14,304]

So many key milestones have come and gone for Indy and Star Wars with nothing except OST or vinyl reissues, so I won't hold my breath that the 50th anniversary of Lucasfilm becomes the catalyst to get the scores expanded.

 

If anything, an Indy box to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Raiders seems more likely (not to mention being "only" four scores vs nine, only one with LA fees instead of three).

 

Seeing as all we got for ESB's 40th was a lousy vinyl reissue of that hot garbage Disney Demaster, well...

[Edmilson 7,395]

Maybe they'll wait for the release* of Indy 5 to promote anything of the franchise? Kinda like when Disney began putting new Star Wars content in 2014/15.

 

*That is, assuming there'll be an Indy 5 and it'll get released in one and a half year.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Folks are hilarious thinking Indy 5 will actually happen when they say it'll happen.

[crumbs 14,304]

At least Mangold got an extra year to polish his script, thanks to COVID. I just hope it's not another hodgepodge of ideas from dozens of different writers, like that clunky script for KOCS.

 

Each writer should start fresh without the baggage of what came before.

 

Still, it'd be a miracle if it started production before 2022 (or if Williams was scoring it in the next 2 years).

[bruce marshall 1,315]

12 minutes ago, The Big Man said:

Folks are hilarious thinking Indy 5 will actually happen when they say it'll happen.

They also think they're getting the scores " remastered and complete and chronogical from Mike MATTESINO".

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

4 minutes ago, bruce marshall said:

They also think they're getting the scores " remastered and complete and chronogical from Mike MATTESINO".

 

I got a bridge to sell them!

 

[bruce marshall 1,315]

Isn't that one of the " missing" cues?

[crumbs 14,304]

Lucasfilm's "Special" 50th Anniversary products revealed!

 

Spoiler: Reissued merchandise from decades ago!

 

Sorry to everyone who got their hopes up that something meaningful might actually be coming from Lucasfilm for a change. We really should know better by now.

[Holko 9,499]

[bollemanneke 3,338]

I am so glad I don't really care about Star Wars.

[Bilbo 3,709]

I can’t believe anyone thought anything would come of  this?

[crumbs 14,304]

It's always the laziest, easiest option with Lucasfilm, isn't it?

 

Must be the legacy Lucas left behind. Why do anything new when fans will gobble up the same shit over and over again like braindead zombies?

 

[SyncMan 314]

13 minutes ago, crumbs said:

It's always the laziest, easiest option with Lucasfilm, isn't it?

 

Must be the legacy Lucas left behind. 

That seems to be the operative word to describe Lucasfilm. This 'laziness' goes back to the 2-CD release of SW:TPM-They just take music from a final film-stem and putting it on a CD.

[Bayesian 1,359]

1 hour ago, Bilbo said:

I can’t believe anyone thought anything would come of  this?

I did. I genuinely did. Silly me.

[Faleel 5,340]

Wow, I was really looking forward to Hasbro SW score expansions.

[mstrox 6,647]

 

3 hours ago, crumbs said:

Lucasfilm's "Special" 50th Anniversary products revealed!

 

Spoiler: Reissued merchandise from decades ago!

 

Sorry to everyone who got their hopes up that something meaningful might actually be coming from Lucasfilm for a change. We really should know better by now.

 

Since that's a post specifically about Hasbro offerings, I wouldn't read anything into this regarding score releases (although I personally don't think the Lucasfilm 50th Anniversary is going to be a "trigger" for those).  

 

I do really dig the nostalgic packaging they're using though - especially the sized-up TPM cardbacks.  Much better than the generic Black Series boxes you see on the shelves.  I don't buy SW merch anymore, but they're mighty attractive.  I'd love to see them doing the same for cardbacks from other lines 1995+ (POTF2, POTJ, AOTC, EPIII cardbacks especially - the vintage replica cards are neat, but you done wore 'em out Hasbro).

[crocodile 7,988]

Next year is John Williams' 90th birthday and the 45th anniversary of Star Wars.

 

Karol

[Faleel 5,340]

6 minutes ago, mstrox said:

 

 

Since that's a post specifically about Hasbro offerings, I wouldn't read anything into this regarding score releases (although I personally don't think the Lucasfilm 50th Anniversary is going to be a "trigger" for those).  

 

 

100%

[King Mark 3,626]

56 minutes ago, crocodile said:

Next year is John Williams' 90th birthday and the 45th anniversary of Star Wars.

 

Karol

.since when does that mean anything?

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

That Samuel Jackson doll looks exactly like him

[Bilbo 3,709]

On 2/8/2021 at 5:31 PM, crocodile said:

Next year is John Williams' 90th birthday and the 45th anniversary of Star Wars.

 

Karol

man’s nothing will happen then either!

[bollemanneke 3,338]

Indeed, it never will. Stop checking anniversaries. It will never ever happen. They won't come.

[mstrox 6,647]

We'll get 'em eventually - MM wants to do them, he has Williams' ear and Williams has OKed BIG legacy projects like ET, CE3K, Jaws, etc.  I don't expect them to be part of any significant Lucasfilm/Disney promotional push, though.  They'll come when they come.

[Jay 37,319]

That's what I think too