Lucasfilm Acquisition Won't Affect Star Wars: 1313

Star Wars 1313
October 31, 2012 - 6:28am

While many people have been worried that with the Disney buyout of Lucasfilm, that the Star Wars movie franchise will be changed forever, others have held fears over the development of third person action adventure game, Star Wars: 1313. However it has now been confirmed that the game will continue on schedule.

IGN managed to get a statement from LucasArts about future game developments, and received the following statement:

"For the time being all projects are business as usual. We are excited about all the possibilities that Disney brings."

While it doesn't specifically name Star Wars: 1313 or the rumoured Star Wars: Frontline Assault, it seems to suggest that for now at least, the project is safe. Disney also clearly has a lot of spare cash at the moment, with its over $2 billion acquisition of Lucasfilms, so it seems likely that many projects will get a nice bump in budget to help speed them along. The company will certainly want as many Disney backed Star Wars projects as it can to legitimise the deal before the next part of the saga appears in cinemas in 2015.

CEO at Disney Interactive has also been noted as saying the company would take a more dedicated approach to social and mobile gaming, as opposed to console. So we could see some new developments in that market with the Star Wars franchise.

This development is certainly a big one, whether you're a fan of it or not. We've heard people saying that the buyout will ruin Star Wars, while others are pleased that we'll finally see the promised 7th, 8th and 9th movies which George Lucas talked about during the initial run of Star Wars films. Sound off below and let us know what you think.

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that's because the only

that's because the only Disney owned movies you know of are kids movies. but did you know they own the rights to many movie companies. even the R rated ones. they just don't advertise it. Look on the back of all your movie boxes you'll be surprised that most of them are a product of Disney.

should be cool...

The acquisition could be a really good thing. Lucas sits on his Star Wars IP and does nothing with it but churn out games through LucasArts... but nothing in the film department. With Disney now at the helm, some really neat things could finally happen with the third trilogy. Disney has obviously made some crappy films (Prince of Persia, Haunted Mansion, etc. etc.) but they've made some epic films as well... it all depends on the producer, director, and script. They should give Christopher Nolan a chance to direct the last trilogy... that would make for an awesome finale to the franchise.

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