Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts

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When Star Wars fans learned that George Lucas was making the prequels, most were filled with excitement and anticipation. When Episodes 1-3 were actually released, many found them unsatisfying, and became disillusioned with Lucas's writing. Now, it appears Disney felt the same way. Though theybought Lucasfilm (http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/10/30/2018219/disney-to-acquire-lucasfilm-star-wars-episode-7-due-in-2015) and began production on Episode 7, they weren't interested in using the scripts Lucas had already worked on (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/01/23/george-lucas-disney-didnt-want-my-star-wars-scripts/?intcmp=features). In an interview, he said, "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]." After what happened with the prequels, that may be for the best — but others may worry about Episode 7's plot being entirely in the hands of Disney and JJ Abrams.

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