You think Lucas also holds the rights to KOTOR? I can see him having some control over the OT and PT since they were his creations, but I'm not sure how involved he was in the rest of the EU. If that's the only reason BioWare wasn't allowed to do a reboot (I get apprehension due to their recent games, but you'd think an RPG would be a no brainer for EA), who knows how constrained the rest of the developers are.
His involvement was somewhat limited for the most part other than enforcing a strict set of rules and having Leland Chee and his story team act on his behalf for most decision making. Although there were projects he would personally be involved with to varying degrees. The only ones I know of are the Shadows of the Empire multimedia project, adding EU stuff in the 1997 cinematic re-release of the OT (Special Edition) as well as the prequels, some sort of involvement with the Vong and the final fates of the Solo kids (which has a little bit of drama tied to it) and being the one who wanted the Emperor to be brought back in the Dark Empire comics, with George being the one who approved the idea that the Emperor should be brought back through cloning. There was also this bit of drama over a contract. There was also the matter of Ewoks media which George was directly involved in with almost everything, like the movies, the cartoons, some books and comics but were all still classified as EU. Filoni Wars was also technically EU despite George's prominent involvement with it early on since George didn't want to put it in G Canon (which is the Canon rank of the six main films) for some reason, instead he created a new Canon rank for it called T Canon which meant "TV Canon" and was for the new line of TV media he wanted to set up, like Filoni Wars and the cancelled Star Wars Underworld (and possibly old TV media like the Droids cartoon and the Ewoks cartoon), which put them in a continuity rank all their own. There's also a few more accounts of involvements but I can't remember them. But regardless of involvement, George could still want the rights to the EU for reasons that are only known to him or possibly for the stuff mentioned above. I mean, he still holds some control over the OT and PT, being the only one who can still authorize whether or not the de-specialized editions can be screened and making sure Disney can't retcon the PT. So it stands to reason he still holds some control over EU stuff too, which includes KOTOR, not to mention "EU" is just a catch-all term for anything that's not the six main films and there's a lot of SW stuff that George might've been involved in that we don't know about.
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This wasn't how the summer of 2019 was supposed to go for Disneyland. The TDA suits had been planning for years for the opening of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, fighting over budgets and parkwide projects that would help manage the huge crowds that would descend on Anaheim the moment Disneyland's...www.micechat.com
Saw this on FB, seem like they’re continuing on the tradition of Disney disliking unions. But honestly, all that cut content would’ve made GE worth it.
Sounds like a bit of a clusterfuck. I can't help but to wonder how much more he would've wanted to give Disney full access to the brand instead of just "renting" it to them, or why Disney can't just pay royalties to him to avoid the current rut Star Wars is in (besides them being greedy, but that's too obvious).
Such is the case with legal jargon, business politics and the strange mind of George Lucas. But in the long +30 year history of the franchise, I don't think there's ever been as much of a clusterfuck behind the scenes as there is now. So many blunders. So many questions. So many wtf moments that make you want to know more of what's going on. Especially when in regards to Galaxy's Edge which almost feels like it was purposely designed to fail.
I guarantee you they won’t show it to critics and the reactions will come after the film gets dumped in theaters.
Do we have a pool set up yet on what the opening night in China will gross?
I have no idea yet. Movie will tank in China though.
Exactly. The movie could be JJ, wearing Carry Fisher's face as sort of a chainsaw-massacre-style mask, doing farting noises and pissing onto a life-sized statue of Luke Skywalker, the usual suspects will still claim the movie is a masterpiece. Kevin Smith will gladly tweet about this great work of art made him cry. Bob Chipman will make a dozen videos how the new Star Wars is symbolic of something something destroy male privilege something something manchild are mad cause they hate women.
If patterns Hold Episode IX will make less then TLJ
"After TLJ and Solo"
Fun Story I know the guy who did the "Russian Bot" Story
