Talk:Star Wars/@comment-32248383-20180715172934

You know I have been thinking lately how many people felt at the time when Star Wars first came out, a lot of people had said that this is the kind of movie that Disney should have made. Which, I guess it's true, because George Lucas would go on to say that he was making a Disney-type adventure film similar to movies like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or Swiss Family Robinson. And I remember reading an article that was on denofgeek.com that talked about the dark times that Disney was facing with movies from the 70s and 80s, like The Black Hole or The Black Cauldron, and how a bunch of those movies didn't really connect well with audiences as much of the classic movies that were made during Walt Disney's lifetime. I mean let's face it, Disney still came out with a few decent family films throughout the 70s and 80s, but they weren't quite exactly the types of movies that were considered groundbreaking or amazing for audiences to flock back to theatres to see multiple times. Of course, as we all know, Disney would eventually rebound with animated classics like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King. But until then, audiences went to go see movies like the Herbie movies, The Aristocats, Robin Hood, The Rescuers, The Fox and the Hound, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and Pete's Dragon (which are all pretty underrated by today's standards). There was a section in that article that mentioned that Disney was one of the major movie studios that George tried pitching the concept of Star Wars to prior to 20th Century Fox, but rejected it by saying that the Sci-Fi genre was not that popular as it once was, despite the success of movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey or Planet of the Apes or even the cult following of classic 60s Sci-Fi TV shows like the original Star Trek series. So, I cannot help but wonder what if, in an alternate Disney studio history timeline, Disney was able to accept George's proposal to finance and distribute the original Star Wars movie? Could Star Wars have been the blockbuster success that Disney needed to turn their studio around at a time when it was facing a both a financial and creative crisis? If that had happened, I think there would probably have been no need for movies like The Black Hole to carry them forward as they would have already had a great Sci-Fi franchise that would be a huge moneymaker for the studio in movies, merchandise, the theme parks, and on TV. Even movies like Indiana Jones probably would have been Disney's answer in making action adventure movies that would appeal to teenagers and adults. It's kind of ironic now that Disney is now the official owner of the Lucasfilm company and both IPs, but I can't help but think what would have happened had Disney accomplished that task way back when.