http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015...s-films-disneyStar Wars creator George Lucas has admitted his ideas for a new trilogy of films were ignored by studio Disney after he sold all rights to the long-running space opera saga in October 2012.
The film-maker told USA Today last week that he planned to shoot the seventh movie in the long-running space opera saga - since retooled by JJ Abrams as Star Wars: The Force Awakens - and release it in May this year.
He also provided treatments for three new films. But in a new interview with Cinema Blend Lucas revealed that none of his ideas made the final screenplay for Abrams’ debut turn in the director’s chair.
“The ones that I sold to Disney, they came up to the decision that they didn’t really want to do those,” said Lucas. “So they made up their own. So it’s not the ones that I originally wrote [on screen in Star Wars: The Force Awakens].”
Well that's really disappointing to hear and a good chunk of my excitement for this film is gone...
Why? because for whatever the prequels were his ideas for 7,8,9 have been long wondered about and a big part of my interest was what he was actually planning, even if it's just an outline we can see some structure of where he would have taken it. When Disney bought the rights to Star Wars they sold us on the idea that episode 7 was Lucas's plan.
I understand that the script was re-written etc but for everything to be chucked out.... well that really sucks and I feel a little cheated.