ST Would George Lucas ever consider buying back his company?

Given what George Lucas has stated after seeing the Force Awakens, that he sold his kids to "the white slavers." Did you think if future Star Wars projects further enrage him, he might actually consider getting the money and buying back Lucasfilm? Or do you think he will just ignore it from here on out?

 

No he won't, he said he didn't want to make these movie at his age if I remember correctly.
Sequel Trilogy Special Editions coming up..

 

I don't think he can afford it.

 

he doesnt have enough money to do it.

Disney will market this into a monster

 

i don't think it's for sale.

 

First of all, Disney is not going to ever let SW go cause they dont want competition.

Second, Lucas sold it cause he is old and he wanted to keep all the people in his companies working.
He probably has some clause that states that none of the people working in all the Lucas companies can be fired.

Third, if Disney is going to sell SW, i dont think he can come up with the cash. Which now after the BO intake of this movie is going to be a bit higher than the original selling price.

 

The SW property is worth so much more now than the $4 billion he sold it for. There's no way in the world even if he wanted to. Let's not forget though, he is one of Disney's largest shareholders.

 

I've been saving my money to buy it one day!!
So far I got $500 saved.. Almost there.

 

Well, you can't buy what's not for sale.

 

Hard to sell something, give away the money from it, and then buy it back, especially when you are talking about life's work.

 

Yep, no way is Disney letting this go. Star Wars is exactly the type of property/franchise a corporation like Disney dreams to have. Worldwide appeal, decades of success, limitless future opportunity, massive, year-round merchandising tie-ins and licensing. It's an absolute gold mine and $4 billion was an absolute steal.

 

Also I am pretty sure he made those "White Slaver" comments before he actually saw the movie.

 

It will never happen.

Disney will never sell Star Wars as it's a license to print money and if TFA is anything to go by Star Wars is in a much better place now that it was during the late 90s early 2000s.

 

Disney dissolved Lucasarts, and cut its employees loose.

 

Lucas will happily keep diving into his Scrooge McDuck vault of cash every single night. He's beyond happy, regardless of what he may say publicly.

 

After the passing of Walt Disney himself, the creative quality of Disney took a nosedive and stayed on the bottom for donkeys years. The just kept on churning out kiddie garbage that was rarely popular and never of high quality. They had to really she'll out to attract any major talent to work for them and no big name director could be persuaded to stay.

In the 90's they remembered that they used to be really good at feature length cartoons and resurrected that division. It was a huge critical and commercial success. They soon ran out of distinctive stories though and were overtaken by a new type of cartoon Shrek/Toy Story, that they couldn't do.

They've finally got something worthwhile, Star Wars,but even with the 1st film it's low artistic quality means it's no better than all the super hero movies about. In their greed and impatience they didn't permit time for creativity and genius to flourish in the new SW. Ultimately, it will be seen as a wasted opportunity.

 

Disney owns Pixar.

 

He actually said that BEFORE he saw the movie. And no. He has said in his clarification that he is delighted with Disney's direction.

 

That interview was recorded before he had watched TFA. He's watched it since and he likes it.

There is zero chance he buys back,not "his" company, but buys Disney's company.

Zero. He entrusted Disney because he knows they will take care of all of his former properties and they have/will.

 

1. George Lucas is 70

2. He could never afford to buy back his own company. They would ask for significantly more than he sold it for (esp after the TFA release)

 

You know they distributed Pixar's early films and now they OWN Pixar, right?

 

Sold for $4bn and TFA alone on it's way to earning $1bn. Not likely Disney would even sell it. Having said that as part of the sale didn't George become something like the 4th largest single shareholder of Disney. So technically..........

 

Which is probably why we're seeing so many damned Pixar sequels now.

 

A film like Inside Out makes up for a lot of sins. If sequels allow them to produce something like that every few years, I'm fine with it. And Toy Story 3 was pretty great to me.

 

I'm not sure what George's rank in shareholders is, but yes, he is a substantial shareholder of WDC.