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I mean to Lucasfilm properties like Indy and SW.
Skywalker82 said:I mean to Lucasfilm properties like Indy and SW.
Comic Book Resources said:Someone asked about the future of "Star Wars" at Dark Horse, to which Allie responded, "There's no plans to move anything. We talk to Lucasfilm all the time about it, and nothing has come down from Disney to make any changes."
Asked if there are any characters in "Star Wars" that Wood hasn't written yet but wants to, the writer responded that he's already writing around 12 characters and has to focus on them for the time being.
Marvel will take over the publishing of new Star Wars comic books, with Dark Horse Comics losing the licensing deal its had for over 20 years.
The rights to the sci-fi franchise will be handled by Marvel starting in 2015, giving Dark Horse the time to wrap up storylines in current series. Its first was Tom Veitch and Cam Kennedy's Dark Empire, in 1989.
Disney releases J.J. Abrams Star Wars: Episode VII on Dec. 18, 2015.
The move to Marvel makes sense considering Disney owns the company. And Marvel is no stranger to the series, having published the first comic books based on the original Star Wars trilogy for nine years, starting in 1977. Star Wars #1 sold more than 1 million copies.
Dark Horse is naturally disappointed.
"All things come to pass. So too, do all licensed deals," said Dark Horse publisher Mike Richardson in a statement on Friday. "It is ironic that this announcement comes at a time when Dark Horse is experiencing its most successful year ever. For obvious reasons, we have prepared for this eventuality by finding new and exciting projects to place on our schedule for 2015 and beyond. Will they take the place of Star Wars" That's a tall order, but we will do our best to make that happen. In the meantime, 2014 may be our last year at the helm of the Star Wars comics franchise, but we plan to make it a memorable one. We know that fans of the franchise will expect no less. The Force is with us still.?
In August, Dark Horse announced The Star Wars, a new book series based on the first draft of George Lucas screenplay for Star Wars.
"Dark Horse Comics published exceptional Star Wars comics for over 20 years, and we will always be grateful for their enormous contributions to the mythos, and the terrific partnership that we had," said Carol Roeder, director of Lucasfilm franchise publishing, Disney Publishing Worldwide. "In 2015, the cosmic adventures of Luke, Han, Leia and Chewbacca will make the lightspeed jump back to Marvel, to begin a new age of adventures within the Star Wars universe."
Skywalker82 said:Looks like both SW and Indy are going back to Marvel afterall
Henry W Jones said:Source please?
When asked whether it would retain its publishing rights to its backlist and keep re-issuing previous material or if Marvel would be absorbing its backlist, Dark Horse stated ?All rights go to Marvel.? Dark Horse has said that Star Wars Comics purchased before 2015 on Dark Horse Digital will remain on its cloud afterward, but print copies of existing material will not continue.
Attila the Professor said:I never did find a single thread I was happy to fold this into.
Skywalker82 said:Looks like both SW and Indy are going back to Marvel afterall
Moedred said:Here's the full Dark Horse announcement, and a few more details:
Moedred said:
Hopefully this applies to Indy if they do 4 parters. On reboots and restarts:"I'm going to tell you, the limited series is the death knell,” Gabriel said of the current market environment. "The only place that it hasn't been a death knell, which is amazing, is on the Star Wars stuff. Anytime we've called something a limited series, it did not hurt the sales at all. You call anything else in the Marvel Universe a limited series, it's dead on arrival."
This is the pattern I've seen, few titles getting past 15 or 20, just starting over. But the October "Marvel Now 2.0" relaunch apparently fell flat and tons of comics were returned to Diamond. And here's how David Gabriel made headlines:"Over the past three years while we've been doing this, we've been seeing, time and time again, phenomenal, phenomenal numbers going from 100,000 to 300,000 when we've done some of these launches. Once you get to issues 15, and 16, and 17 what in the world do you do to get those numbers from a 40,000, 60,000 unit book to 150,000 unit book even for one month?"
It's amended by some PR spin that claims the opposite. Nearly every Marvel character has experienced race and gender bending at some point (though they never get short or fat). Hopefully they re-find their groove in this digital world.What we heard was that people didn't want any more diversity. They didn't want female characters out there. That's what we heard, whether we believe that or not. I don't know that that's really true, but that's what we saw in sales. We saw the sales of any character that was diverse, any character that was new, our female characters, anything that was not a core Marvel character, people were turning their nose up against. That was difficult for us because we had a lot of fresh, new, exciting ideas that we were trying to get out and nothing new really worked.
Moedred said:
Marvel Previews is free now. Nothing Indy yet. Star Wars is heading toward Return of the Jedi with plots that resemble Weekend at Bernie's but with Han Solo in carbonite.
Marvel is working its way around Disneyland, with Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Haunted Mansion, Enchanted Tiki Room, and Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge. Maybe Country Bear Jamboree for 2022.