On 30 October, 2012, George Lucas relinquished his hold over the Star Wars franchise when Disney acquired Lucasfilm for a cool $4.05 billion. While fans weren't thrilled that Disney would be in charge of the greatest sci-fi series of all time, it turns out this was a small price to pay to stop Lucas from what he planned on doing next.
While he's only hinted so far about how he would have handled the next trilogy of films, some of his plans appear to have been revealed in a companion book to James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction series on AMC.
Here's what George wanted to do:
He must be referring to whatever the midichlorians are—the stupid techno-babble Qui-Gon Jinn used to explain The Force in The Phantom Menace. But really, Lucas's plot sounds like a mix between an episode of The Magic School Bus and Osmosis Jones.
You have to admit that it's pretty funny that he would have done something he knew fans would have hated. And who can blame him? Star Wars fans suck.
Matt Miller is a Brooklyn-based culture/lifestyle writer and music critic whose work has appeared in Esquire, Forbes, The Denver Post, and documentaries.
