Update: Disney has reached out to the media to explain that this isn’t a “revival” and it’s definitely not anything like LucasArts. The team at Lucasfilm that oversees games relating to its IP (including Star Wars Battlefront II) has been working under that name for years. As it explained to GamesIndustry.biz, Lucasfilm plans to continue its strategy of licensing IP to others.
Engadget.com
Too beautiful to be real
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Aw 
If only they’d license the right IP to the right people …
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What if someone from this forum applies for the jobs and tries to shake things up and offer licencing to all our favorite game creators?
I think His Majesty Ron Grumpy Gamer Gilbert already stated that he’s not interested in licensing the IP, if I remember correctly out of fear that he wouldn’t be able to freely express his idea, having to undergo acceptance and so on.
But… who knows.
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From the Lucasfilm website FAQ:
Lucasfilm manages the rights to the Star Wars and the Indiana Jones movies, as well as Red Tails , Tucker: The Man and His Dream , Willow , Labyrinth , and Strange Magic , and requests related to those films should be directed to ClipAndStill@Lucasfilm.com.
Clearances for American Graffiti are managed by Universal Studios Home Video; clearances for THX 1138 are managed by Warner Bros. Home Video.
For questions related to George Lucas’ student films, you may contact Publicity@SkywalkerRanch.com or the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Wait… no Howard the Duck?!
Did LucasFilm buy game rights from Marvel back in the day? And if so, are they still valid? (I’m guessing at the very least the answer to the second question is negative. 
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Who cares? Disney owns them both. So, my guess is that Howard is gagged and tied-up in a broom closet somewhere… just where Donald wants him.
Duck. Not Trump. Although he might agree.
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I would trust Double Fine Productions with the Monkey Island IP
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It would be awesome if everyone could come to this amazing agreement, getting the original team back to do some MI.
Tim setting up some meeting with Lucasfilm execs (Through his Disney Remaster contacts). Everyone coming to some amicable agreement.
Get Ron G, Tim Schafer and David Grossman to come back with Peter Chan, Mark Ferrari and Larry Ahern on Art, Michael Land, McConnell and Bajakian on Music to make the ultimate MI3a experience.
Twud’ be the dream
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Degree of impossibility: 10^9.
But that’s a wonderful dream. If it’s supposed to be a dream, let’s dream it properly! 
Damn it! 10^6 and it would practically have been inevitable.
mmm, I don’t know. For me it’s either a new Monkey Island with Ron Gilbert directing it or no MI at all.
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I’m not waiting for a Double Fine Monkey Island (or any Monkey Island for that matter) but I’d go for a Double Fine Monkey Island.
Tales of Monkey Island by TellTale was good. But it didn’t have the magic of the first two games. I’d like to see a MI game from Ron, but I suspect it would be a bit of a disappointment, due to my expectations. Double Fine: I’m sure they’d do a fine job, but it would not be anything else than what TellTale did.
I’m curious to see how I will feel about Terminator 3A.
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Call me a heretic, but I don’t really long so much for MI3a.
I love SMI and MI2, of course, and Ron Gilbert is a genius for coming up with them, but he chose to leave LucasArts. That was his choice. And so Monkey Island was no longer his. It is and always has been a LucasArts property. Just like the Star Wars canon has moved on without George Lucas with the new official movies that deviated from what he would have personally planned for future stories had he not given that property up, Monkey Island moved on without Gilbert.
And even though I love SMI and MI2, I am not so nostalgic that I can’t see the unique quality that games after MI2 have offered as well. Heck, even EMI, though admittedly flawed in certain ways, was thoroughly entertaining. So why would I want to retcon all of that continuity that I have grown to love in addition to the first two games?
Plus, as Ron has said himself, I would probably be disappointed with the so-called “real” secret of Monkey Island, anyway, and the style of game he would choose to make he also has said would either not be successful or would not please fans. So why would I root for that to happen? Especially if the secret is anything as upsetting as the whole first two games actually just being a dream in a little modern-day kid’s head…
I would much rather the series as it is in its current state and with its new official canon be continued / brought to a close by Double Fine if that opportunity presented itself.
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Yeah, probably…
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Ah, I get it! It’s a metaphore. In MI1 you need to gather bananas in order to get to give them to the monkey so he’ll follow you and help you by keeping the fence open to the Giant Monkey head.
So if Guybrush is a banana, it means he needs to gather or build himself (knowledge, wisdom, altruism etc.) so that there is enough of him to share to others, so they’ll follow him (will work with him) and will help him to get to his goal. So Monkey Island is Community building 101.
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