lokirising said:

As apposed to what Lucas did with it.

Chairborne said:

This. 

I honestly can't understand how anyone would view this as anything but a possible positive. It's like when we're working on broken equipment at work and want to try something experimental to fix it. My famous saying, "Well, it's already broken, right?" 

I mean how much worse could Disney possibly  make it? I already don't care as a result of the new trilogy. I can't not care again, y'know? I've already gone through that disappointment of being excited for new Star Wars movies then get let down. It can't really happen again. 

Lastly, in the interest of full disclosure, Disney bought Marvel in 2009. To somehow hold them responsible for Daredevil, the first Hulk movie, etc. is a bit disingenuous. Not saying they will definitely knock it out of the park with a new Star Wars movie, but knowing a little bit about how the entertainment industry works, Disney will probably not have a lot of say in what actually goes on in a Star Wars production anyway. It's not like Bob Iger drives over to ESPN and says, "Hey guys, that LeBron James Decision media stunt was really silly. Let's not do that again.", or says, "Hey Gore Vidal, let's get Keith Richards to play Johnny Depp's dad in Pirates of the Caribbean 2."

Just guessing, but I'd say it's all going to be 10,000 foot view kind of stuff that Disney has say-so over- big budget approvals, distribution deal, merchandising tie-ins, stuff like that. The nuts-and-bolts stuff is still going to be Lucasfilm. 

 Ha, Gore Verbinski, obviously. Sorry about that. Where's the edit button? :)

I'd love to see something from the Dark Empire series from Dark Horse or the Jedi Academy stuff.