Lucas is 68.  He waited too long between the trilogies for questionable results to be able to finish it himself. 

 

Quote - Disney could have saved a lot of money by hiring some creative people and creating their own franchise, if there are any creative people at disney.... aside from the financial engineers.

Let's see, they get the profits of all future installments.  All the merchandizing.  The video game division.  They get the profits from ILM. 

And of course you've got Starwarsland which probably will happen. You know at least ten million people will pony up the 100-120 it takes to get in there and a lot will keep going back.

 

Here's the thing about new IPs, they are expensive and there's no guarantee it'll be a hit with fans.  Why else do you see John Carter and Battleship being made?  It's because people with that kind of money hate to risk it on new ideas.

WARK!

Thus Spoketh Winterclaw: a blog about a Winterclaw who speaks from time to time.

 

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