George Lucas felt “betrayed” by Disney’s plans for Star Wars sequels, according to the CEO of the Walt Disney Company.
According to excerpts published by The Hollywood Reporter, Disney acquired Lucas’s outlines for three new Star Wars films after buying LucasFilm, the production company founded by Lucas, in 2012.
The Disney CEO adds: ”George felt betrayed, and while this whole process would never have been easy for him, we’d gotten off to an unnecessarily rocky start.”
Bob Iger discusses Disney’s negotiations with Lucas in his new memoir, The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned From 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company.