George Lucas' Original 'Star Wars' Sequel Treatments Focused On Teenaged Characters

It's easy to view Disney's $4 billion dollar purchase of Lucasfilm cynically: a corporate behemoth comes into possession of  "Star Wars," with sequel treatments by George Lucas ready to go. Disney could easily have thrown some production money at those treatments, banged out some scripts, and then put their feet up on the desk, call it a day and watch the cash pour in as through a spigot. Fans of the franchise numbering in the millions would certainly show up no matter what, so why invest even more money into development if the treatments are already there? To it's credit, Disney not only want to cinematically revive a major brand, but they want to do it right, which means taking a whole new approach.

"The [treatments] 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 one that I originally wrote [for 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens']," Lucas...