Q & As About 'Star Wars': Will Kevin Feige's Star Wars film spell the end for the George Lucas era?
© 1977 20th Century Fox Film Corp. and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) Will Kevin Feige's Star Wars film spell the end for the George Lucas era? No. The “George Lucas era” ended in the fall of 2012. In case you didn’t notice, George Lucas sold his company, Lucasfilm Ltd., to The Walt Disney Company, for $4 billion (half cash, half in Disney stock) in October of 2012. Lucas stopped making Star Wars live-action films in 2005 but continued to work in the franchise as creator and executive producer of the CGI animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He did not micromanage that 2008–2014 show; he leaned on Dave Filoni, Catherine Winder, and others for that, although he signed off on all of the big storylines, such as the return of Darth Maul, the one-off appearance of Chewbacca, and the Mortis story arc. He also said many, many times that he had no plans to make any more Star Wars films set after Return of the Jedi and t...