re: Disney to buy Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 for 2015

I was just telling a family member that they should go with completely original ideas and to cut ties with almost every character they can - except for R2D2 and 3pio - and just use the general set-up provided by the previous 6 films. Meaning use the "dna" set-up in the universe - the Force, the fall of the Republic/Rise & Fall of the Empire, the Jedi, etc.

Every sci-fi writer in America and probably around the world is salivating over this idea. Seriously if Disney wanted to, they could hire the 25 best screenwriters they can find, tell them to write the best trilogy they can think of, and then pick the best one. The fact that no one wants to be the a-hole who wrote another disappointing Star Wars trilogy alone will provide motivation. Just think of how much fame you'd have in the motion picture industry to be known as the writer who wrote the continuation of the greatest sci-fi property in film history.

I'm interested to see what this does to the long-gestating live-action television series that Lucas has been stewing on for the past decade. If I get a S.H.I.E.L.D. series and LASW series every week in the next couple of years, I may well die of nerdgasm.