After George Lucas handed over Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 for $4 billion, it appears the Mouse House had also opted to leave the filmmaker's "Star Wars" ideas behind and give the cult favorite their own cinematic stamp.
"Remember those story treatments for Star Wars Episodes VII, VIII and IX, which Lucas sold along with his company to Disney for $4.06 billion in October 2012? Turns out they have little, if anything, to do with what we'll see on screen starting in December," Mashable said.
The movie maker had told CinemaBlend that Disney didn't want to adopt his story ideas.
"The ones that I sold to Disney, they came up to the decision that they didn't really want to do those. So they made up their own. So it's not the ones that I originally wrote [on screen in Star Wars: The Force Awakens]," he was quoted by the site as saying.
When pressed for details about the story proposal he gave for "Star Wars: Episode 7," Lucas refused to divulge more information. However, he did indicate that his plan to make the said film "was snuffed when he realized the time commitment was too much for him to take on," as producing another trilogy would mean an investment of another decade of his life.
"The time is more important to me than the money," he explained, speaking about the reason for handing over his filmmaking company to Disney.
Mashable did say that Lucas allegedly didn't want to pass on the said story treatments "until the very last minute" during the 2012 acquisition. When he finally did, this is what Disney's CEO Bob Iger said: "We thought from a storytelling perspective they had a lot of potential."
As noted by the site, that's Hollywood-speak for "unusable."
This doesn't mean that the upcoming "Star Wars" film will be completely Lucas-free.
"Star Wars spin-off writer Simon Kinberg said the Lucas blueprint 'is definitely part of the planning' for future films," Mashable said.
Meanwhile, Lucas had also revealed that he doesn't really know what's happening in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."
"I haven't seen anything; I mean I saw the trailer, it looks great, it looks interesting. But as I've said before: one thing I regret about Star Wars is that I never got to see it, you know? I never got to be blown away by the big ship coming over the thing, or anything. But this time I'm going to be, because I have no idea what they're doing," he explained to ScreenRant.
Well, this time, he can watch and enjoy the movie like any other "Star Wars" fan.
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