George Lucas was reportedly snubbed by Disney since, according to the latest news on "Star Wars Episode 7," not a single idea that he suggested was used in JJ Abrams' film.
"The ones that I sold to Disney, they came up to the decision that they didn't really want to do those," he told Cinema Blend. "So they made up their own. So it's not the ones that I originally wrote [on screen in Star Wars: The Force Awakens]"
George Lucas wasn't keen on providing more fodder for fans hungry for any "Star Wars Episode 7" news, but Cinema Blend that previous reports have already hinted what the director/producer had envisioned.
"An interview with Mark Hamill from back in 1983 made the rounds online a while ago, and it revealed footage of Luke Skywalker talking about how Lucas approached him about playing an Obi-wan-type character in a potential sequel and passing the torch to another generation of Jedi. Though, this seems like a general enough kernel of a story to have also been thought up by Abrams and company. Could it still be in play?" it said.
Could the snub led to a bad blood between George Lucas and Disney?
George Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney for $4 billion back in 2012, which means Disney now owns the "Star Wars" franchise.
In December last year, when the "Star Wars Episode 7" trailer came out, and by then had 80 million views on YouTube, George Lucas was asked if he watched the clip.
"I don't know anything about it. I haven't seen it yet," he said Page Six. "Because it's not in the movie theater. I like going to the movies and watching the whole thing there."
"But when we asked Lucas if he was curious to see what Abrams has done with the new 'Star Wars,' Lucas said, 'Not really,'" PageSix noted.
Early "Star Wars Episode 7" news revealed that George Lucas backed out of the new trilogy after realizing that it's going to take up a lot of his time once again and take him away from his 17-month-old daughter. "It's better for me to get out at the beginning of a new thing and I can just remove myself.
The time is more important to me than the money," he told USA Today.
