Well, I ASSUME that there’s going to be a good chance for the latter:
A spoof of the Star Wars franchise is in development with Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, whose credits include the Scary Movie franchise, “Epic Movie” and “Vampires Suck.”
The duo will write and direct the project, titled “Star Worlds Episode XXXIVE=MC2: The Force Awakens The Last Jedi Who Went Rogue.” Covert Media’s CEO Paul Hanson (“District 9”) is producing the film alongside Broken Road Productions’ Todd Garner (“True Memoirs of an International Assassin”).
…(Via GeekTyrant) This should be a fascinating contest of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object. On one hand, we have the Mouse. On the other hand, we have the entire question of just how protected parodies are… which is danged convoluted. Seriously, the more I refreshed my memory on this, the more complicated it got. And on the gripping hand, Disney pretty much does nothing to go after porn parodies of its stuff (DO NOT SEARCH FOR EXAMPLES, IF YOU LOVE YOUR EYES), so maybe they won’t care, after all. Which sounds… weird, no?
Given the existence of Hardware Wars and Spaceballs I would think a lawsuit would be on pretty shaky ground.
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On the other hand, with the money and lawyers Disney has at their disposal, they could probably make anything they don’t like go away without ever really dealing the question of legal standing.
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On the gripping hand, who is still giving the Scary Movie people money to make more movies?