actually if episode 7 is about 20 years in the future and goes along with the YUUzhan vong war, than it would work out pretty well. They could even still use Harrison Ford, Mark Hamil, and Carrie fisher and they would look more accurate. I will say though if it is called Episode V!! i dont see them making it about the Old Republic.

On the Bright side though i will say it would be interesting to see them do an Old Republic Tv cartoon or tv show

I would love old republic movies but feel it wouldn't be called episode 7! Thrawn is the safest bet. After that I think the Jacen solo story line if it is going to be a story after episode 6.

There's a perfect opening here that could make everyone happy (not that they'll see it)... Luke, Leia, and Han are all still alive. So are Ford, Fisher, and Hamill. And the EU has them about the same age as the actors. If the movies are right after Fate of the Jedi, it would be perfect. Make it about Ben becoming the replacement Chosen One. Have some flashbacks to Anakin/Obi-Wan (using the prequel trilogy actors) to show what it meant for Anakin to be the chosen one. The original actors don't even need to do that much - it could primarily be about the kids. But cameos would seal the deal for everyone to show it's really Star Wars.

I doubt they could get ford to reprise the role of solo. He doesn't care much for the movies, was reluctant to do RoTJ, and wanted lucas to kill off his character during the battle on Endor. But, people change with time, who knows.

Personally, I have mixed feelings on this. My largest fear is that they'll rebooted the universe. I know that sounds impossible, bu they're rebooting everything these days, I wouldn't put it past hollywood.

Here's the deal money solves everything you pay good ole Harry enough and he will do another movie. I mean he did that god aweful movie cowboys vs aliens, he should have no problems doing star wars. Granted it might take some work to get the princess back to her fighting weight

Makes sense. It is a shame, I really like what Dark Horse has done with the Star Wars Comics. Now it could still take a bit, the Muppets and Pixar stuff took a while to leave their previous publishers before Disney started reeling them in, and there are plenty of more SW comics. It all depends...it might take a bit, but I'm sure it is coming down the pipeline.

I don't know that WOTC is interested enough in star wars anymore . SWM seemed like it was in decline at the time it ended... the quality of miniatures were drastically diminished from the earlier sets, corners were cut on costs (no more rules/check list insert), 40 pieces per set rather than 60. I think they'd given up on it.

Likewise, FFG has a Living Card Game on the way, a new RPG, and the x-wing game. If its profitable, I see no reason why they wouldn't continue with it. Guess only time will tell.

Oh - and I doubt that they'll use existing novels as a basis for the movies. They want some surprises in there. If we're lucky, the new movies will be about Han, Luke, and Leia's deaths and not about rebooting the whole EU.

I just don't see it. First, FFG would have to lose the license. And looking at X-wing's sucesss, I don't see them letting go of it without a fight. And I look at WOTC decisions, and I don't see them being able to take it back up. I don't the cost of the Star Wars license is something they will ever entertain of paying again.

I'm reasonably stoked about this development. If nothing else, it means the continuation of the franchise in a larger medium than comics, books and children's shows. Every 2-3 years? Like the Bond franchise? Nice! Now just get rid of anything like Ewoks, Gungans and please, please, PLEASE don't even think about doing anything Vong related. That has to be the most ill-thought out culture ever. Sorry, I know many may like the Vong (and some aspects are cool) but this whole "we can do anything you can do, but with plants!" BS got old halfway throught the first book I read.

Plants opening black holes? Plants communicating over vast distances? Please. Now, if they had something like a mix between the Sssi-Ruuk and the Vong (minus the crappy 'soul-stealing' of the Bakura book), that might have been great. I think an opportunity was missed there. Instead of machine-hating or 'soul-stealing' you could have had a culture that was heavily into cyborging themselves out. Something like the Cymeks of the Butlerian Jihad book (Dune genre). Imagine a race that perhaps cloned themselves into machine/brain cyborgs in mass numbers would have been a great nemesis for the Jedi. Instead we got snakes that could get so hard as to stop a lightsaber, while shooting acid and then going soft like a whip. Sheesh...