Mutants, Lightsabers, and Boobs

It was a pretty big day in movies today.

First off, Bryan Singer has stepped in as director of the new X-Men movie "Days of Future Past", which is excellent news.  As much as I liked "First Class", it'll be good to have the man behind the camera that first introduced the cinematic world to the X-Men.

Oh, yeah, and this happened...

Disney buys Lucasfilm for $4 billion

The Mouse House is consolidating their grip on all the things I loved during my childhood.  First, they bought Pixar.  Then, the bought Marvel.  Now, they've bought Star Wars.

I think this is a good thing, because it means that George Lucas will get out from behind the drivers seat of what was once my favorite franchise of all time. 

I wonder who they're going to get to direct one of the new Star Wars movies....

In non-geek related yet still Star Wars related news, Natalie Portman is in Austin filming a new movie, and she and Michael Fassbender were at the t.u. game a few weeks ago.  Here's a gif....

Evidently, motherhood has been very good to her...at least to her chest.