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-04.04.2013 Videogames, Disney closes LucasArts! Stop production. Just five months after the billion-dollar acquisition. Production of games suspended, including Star Wars 1313. A piece of history that is disappearing?

Walt Disney closes LucasArts, the video game publishing company founded by director George Lucas, and halts production of all new releases, including the announced and highly anticipated Star Wars 1313, due out later this year, and Star Wars: First Assault. The announcement was made Miles Perkins, a spokesperson for Lucasfilm.
LucasArts, founded 31 years ago, was acquired last October by Disney together with the film company of the same name. The cost of the operation was 4 billion dollars. The closure of the company will also lead to the loss of an unspecified number of jobs (according to the Kotaku.com website at least 150 people), while a "small team" will remain due to partnership issues, Perkins explained. The characters and stories will be outsourced to other developers, although the source cited by Kotaku even considers this hypothesis unlikely.
LucasArts had become famous throughout the world for the production of graphic adventures such as The Secret of Monkey Island (and the related series), the Indiana Jones PC saga, those based on flight simulators (the accurate historical trilogy Battlehawks 1942, Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe) and the first 3D attempts (Grim Fandango). At the beginning of the nineties the first Star Wars games were born, with X-Wing, Dark Forces, and so on up to Star Wars: Battlefront, the most famous edition, based on the previous Battlehawks. The last game in the series was released in 2008, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (and there are also "little brothers" in the Lego version). Seven years later, fans of the series were waiting for 1313 with enthusiasm. At the very least the project will be postponed, probably outsourced.
(from Il Corriere della Sera.it)

 

- 23.01.2012 Work continues on the short film by director Spadoni:

The Island Of Pirates - short film 2012 fan film pirates of the caribbean 5 one piece Kaizoku Mousu

The story features 3 very famous and fearsome pirates as protagonists: Guybrush, Luffy and Jack, all three in search of a unique and priceless hidden treasure, all three driven by fate to face an incredible adventure!
Will Luffy, Guybrush and Jack succeed in their aim? and What dangers will this new adventure hold for them?

This is an amateur project and all rights belong to the legitimate owners.
Fan Film (non-profit)

The Island Of Pirates And The Treasure of the White Shark

Director: 
Daniele Spadoni

Cast: 
Claudio Lisco : Jack Sparrow
Marco Risola : Monkey D. Luffy (Rubber)
Lino Stano : Guybrush Threepwood

Narrator: Alessandro Damiani
soundtrack: Ivano Muolo

SUBTITLES BY IVANO MUOLO

In collaboration with:

Monkey Island Site 
Monkey Island World 
One Piece Facebook Page 
Rolonoa Zoro One Piece Italy 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Island-Of-Pirates-And-The-Treasure-of-the-...

Poster: 

http://spadoni-production.deviantart.com/#/d4fugph

 

- 25.11.2011 The Island Of Pirates And The Treasure of the White Shark... the new film project by Daniele Spadoni dedicated to Moneky Island... and beyond.
Follow the work on:
- The Island Of Pirates And The Treasure of the White Shark (Facebook)
- Trailer on YouTube
- Facebook "The personal page of Daniele Spadoni Director"

 

- 14.11.2011 Return on Monkey Island - Special Chapter - Short Film 2012 fan film Pirates of the Caribbean.

After the trailer, director Daniele Spadoni gives us his complete work dedicated to the Monkey Island saga. The short denotes great ability behind the camera as well as an unconditional love for "Monkey Island". The special effects are excellent.
Here's how the director introduces his work on YouTube:
The short begins after the 4th chapter, a special chapter where the legendary Guybrush Threepwood finds himself up in an area north of monkey island where he has never been.
Without knowing how he got there, our mythical hero will once again have to face the plans of the undead pirate LeChuck.
Director: Daniele Spadoni
cast: Lino Stano
Narrator: Claudio Santoriello
In collaboration with: Monkey Island Site; Monkey Island World
Poster
This is an amateur project and all rights belong to the legitimate owners.
Fan Film (non-profit)

 

- 27.10.2011 Return on Monkey Island - Special Chapter.
The new Trailer!

The short begins after the 4th chapter, a special chapter where the legendary Guybrush Threepwood finds himself up in an area north of monkey island where he has never been.
Without knowing how he got there, our mythical hero will once again have to face the plans of the undead pirate LeChuck.
Director: Daniele Spadoni
cast: Lino Stano
Narrator: Claudio Santoriello
In collaboration with: Monkey Island Site; Monkey Island World

Return on Monkey Island - Special Chapter will be released and published on November 30th on YOUTUBE!!!

 

- 07.10.2011 The Monkey Island Site is pleased to present "Return on Monkey Island - Special Chapter".
The multi-talented Daniele Spadoni Director is working on a new short which will surely arouse the interest of the internet, the subject of the new work is one of the most myths of the 90s Monkey Island.
I present to you Return on Monkey Island - Special Chapter - Teaser live action fan film.
The short begins after the 4th chapter... a special chapter where the legendary Guybrush Threepwood finds himself up in an area north of monkey island where he has never been. Without knowing how he got there, our mythical friend will once again have to face the plans of the undead pirate LeChuck.
(from www.satyrnet.it)

It is possible to follow the evolution of the project on:
- Facebook - The personal page of Daniele Spadoni Director
- On Monkey Island Forum
- Teaser on YouTube - Return on Monkey Island - Special Chapter (also available in the box below)

 

- 08.30.2010 Updated the section dedicated to Saga of Monkey Island with the inclusion of the pages dedicated to the Special Editions of the first two chapters which were produced by Lucas in July 2009 and July 2010.

 

- 08.29.2010 Saves added for Sam & Max Hit the Road CD version for use with the ScummVM 1.1.1 emulator.

- 12.03.2010 Lucas Arts confirms the arrival of the second chapter of Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge - Special Edition, the graphic revisitation of the second adventure of Guybrush Treepwood.
The title, which will arrive in the summer for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC and iPhone, via digital delivery, will include a new control system, new graphics, and complete voice dubbing. As in the previous chapter, players will have the possibility to change the graphics with the original ones of the title.

 

 

 

- 10.08.2009 Monkey Island on iPhone."I'm Guybrush Threepwood and I want to be a pirate." Way back in 1990, this phrase went around the world, enthralling millions of gamers thanks to a point-and-click adventure of particular depth. A plot perhaps not innovative but full of twists and above all with a well-marked charge of irony was embellished by the fervent imagination of the LucasArts developers, who gave life to an authentic masterpiece of the genre. Today the American company has decided to revive that milestone, with a remake which - together with PC and Xbox 360 - also reaches the iPhone. The entire story has as its protagonist Guybrush Threepwood, an aspiring pirate who landed on Meleè Island full of hope and desire to do. At a certain point the story will change direction towards the classic chase of a phantasmagorical enemy, guilty of the kidnapping of the beauty of the moment and fleeing towards the mysterious Monkey Island, an island as unknown as it is fascinating. The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition for iPhone brings with it a few but juicy new features, starting from a complete graphic restyling and ending with the implementation of speech, unfortunately (or fortunately) totally in English; all passing from a gameplay system tending more towards a "drag-and-click" that points and click.
Updated back The pointing method is in fact perhaps the most controversial innovation included in this version for iPhone: the player is asked to drag a small round icon through the various parts of the scenario and select the desired area with a simple touch. Indeed, the solution adopted becomes too cumbersome and less intuitive compared to a more immediate direct tap in the interested place, and above all it risks becoming frustrating especially in the phases in which one is forced to act quickly, as happens for example in some key moments of the plot. Who doesn't remember the acrobatic passages of grog from one mug to another to free the caged Otis or the jump into the cannon as the useful shot towards Monkey Island is about to explode? The graphics leave behind the pixelated squares of the time in favor of a more refined high definition design very reminiscent of the style of cartoons: colorful and bright, The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition boasts a harmonious outline and at the same time really cared for especially with regards to both environmental and character details. Those who are nostalgic, on the other hand, will be able to play with the original version simply by swiping two fingers on the screen: in no time at all the scenario will transform into the original retrogame, with the menus completely in English and the exclusion of speech. The audio sector has been completely modernized with the aim of making the soundtrack as pleasant as possible but still remaining faithful to the original, always exceptional. The same treatment was given to speech, an absolute novelty regarding this episode of the Monkey Island series: the voices match perfectly with each character, even if to tell the truth Le Chuck could have deserved a more frightening and dark tone.
(from Multiplayer.it)

 

- 01.08.2009 A first review of "Tales of Monkey Island: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal" was published in the August monthly magazine "The Game Machines". Below are the images of the article.