{"id":71105,"date":"2015-01-22T07:20:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T07:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=71105"},"modified":"2015-01-22T14:24:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T14:24:55","slug":"star-wars-7-trashes-george-lucas-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/star-wars-7-trashes-george-lucas-script\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars 7: What Disney think of George Lucas&#8217;s script"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_71107\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71107\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Star-Wars-7-George-Lucas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71107\" alt=\"George Lucas on the set of the original Star Wars trilogy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Star-Wars-7-George-Lucas.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Star-Wars-7-George-Lucas.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Star-Wars-7-George-Lucas-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Star-Wars-7-George-Lucas-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Star-Wars-7-George-Lucas-616x410.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Lucas on the set of the original Star Wars trilogy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When George Lucas was talking about the sale of Lucasfilm in those slightly odd hostage-style videos, it was revealed that he&#8217;d passed onto Disney the nucleus of an idea for <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/star-wars-7-casts-3-total-bad-asses-from-the-raid\/\">Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>It seems JJ Abrams and co have opted to move on without it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_n087nsMXGq1toamj8o2_r1_500.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71106 aligncenter\" alt=\"tumblr_n087nsMXGq1toamj8o2_r1_500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_n087nsMXGq1toamj8o2_r1_500.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The [sequel ideas] that I sold to Disney, they came up to the decision that they didn&#8217;t really want to do those,&#8221; Lucas told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/new\/How-George-Lucas-Star-Wars-7-Ideas-Were-Used-By-Disney-69271.html\"><em>CinemaBlend<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So they made up their own. So it\u2019s not the ones that I originally wrote [on screen in Star Wars: The Force Awakens].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, that&#8217;s kinda for the best&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em>\u00a0will be released on 18 December 2015. For the latest\u00a0<em>Star Wars: Episode VII<\/em>\u00a0news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginesubs.co.uk\/subscribe-to-sci-fi-now?utm_source=SciFiNow&amp;utm_medium=button&amp;utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">subscribe to SciFiNow and save 30% off the cover price<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much of George Lucas&#8217;s original story made it into Star Wars: The Force Awakens? 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