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Disney Bought George Lucas’ Ideas For The New 'Star Wars' Trilogy And Then Scrapped Them
Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images George Lucas says Disney decided not to move forward with his ideas for "Star Wars" episodes VII, VIII, and IX. When George Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 for $4 billion, the sale included treatments for Lucas’ "Star Wars" ideas for episodes VII, VIII, and IX.
So even though the Mouse House was now in charge of all things “Star Wars,” it appeared as if fans were still going to get Lucas’ version of the next trilogy.
It turns out that's not the case.
Speaking with Cinemablend at the press conference for his new animated feature, “Strange Magic,” Lucas said Disney essentially scrapped his ideas for episodes VII, VIII, and IX.
“The ones that I sold to Disney, they came up to the decision that they didn't really want to do those,” Lucas told Cinemablend. “So they made up their own. So it's not the ones that I originally wrote.”
According to Bloomberg, Disney CEO Robert Iger thought the treatments "had a lot of potential."
Lucas has been tossing around ideas for a third "Star Wars" trilogy since the launch of the original trilogy. A Time article from March 1978 suggested Lucas had plans for up to a dozen "Star Wars" movies.
He even pitched the idea of "Episode VII" to actor Mark Hamill in the '80s.
Lucas is now serving as a "creative consultant" on the new films.
What does that mean? Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy described it like this:
The beauty of the collaboration that can continue is as we work our way through these scripts if we're sitting and saying, "Hmm, I wonder if this character can do that?" or "Does this make sense within the rules of 'Star Wars'?" … He's the keeper of the flame when it comes to that.
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