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Star Wars novelist says Disney won't pay him royalties it owes him:
Alan Dean Foster, author of several Star Wars novelizations, says Disney hasn't paid him his royalties. According to Foster, Disney has asked him to sign a non-disclosure agreement before the company will speak with him. According to SFWA president Mary Robinette Kowal, Disney is arguing that when it bought Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox, they bought contract rights — but not the legal obligation to pay Foster for his work.
[...] Foster ghost-wrote the novelization of Star Wars: A New Hope, under the byline of George Lucas; it was published in 1976 before the movie's release. He also published a sequel to Star Wars, Splinter of the Mind's Eye. Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012; according to Foster, Disney stopped paying him royalties. Last year, Disney bought 20th Century Fox, acquiring the rights to some other novelizations by Foster: Alien, Aliens, and Alien 3. Disney hasn't paid Foster a dime on any of the Alien books, he says.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 22 2020, @01:08AM (2 children)
Before, or after his support of that new Chancellor in Germany?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 22 2020, @02:30AM (1 child)
Disney provided wholesome family entertainment which is more than I can say now for the immoral stuff it churns out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 23 2020, @04:36PM
When did it turn immoral? Was there a certain film or decade you can put your finger on?
I'm going to go with Malificent. I assume that wholesome family entertainment involves patriarchy, the mythic nuclear family, and the divine right of kings? So if the princess goes through childhood then enters magical sleep stasis to await marriage, the prince fights against the evil faerie queen, who is portrayed as an incel that never gets invited to parties, and the princess' life only resumes once she has a husband, then it is wholesome. However, if instead the faerie queen is able to arouse the princess by being in lesbians with her, then it is not wholesome.
Granted, as for the films themselves, I still prefer the original Sleeping Beauty. Malificent is an ok film, best to watch with alcohol or dude weed lmao, but it could have been done better if they had involved Ralph Bakshi instead and his rotoscoped magitek luftwaffe. How would you respond to such a theoretical Bakshi prequel or remake of Sleeping Beauty?