George Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney for $4 billion

George Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney for $4 billion.

Was that price too low? How much would you have sold it for?

Do you know what Lucas could do now?

He could SINGLE HANDED make the movie he's always wanted to make. No producers trying to get their nephews roles. No production companies ordering George to add shit.

He could make a movie that's 100% Lucas. He could make an entire series of movies. He could make a TV series.

Do you know why he won't? Because he's out of ideas. He doesn't want to be in the spotlight anymore. He's sick of it.

Have you seen Red Tails? What a complete train wreck. The man can't even take a basic episode of history and turn it into something people actually want to see.

George has been tired ever since finishing A New Hope. He's a sleepy guy. Maybe if someone got him on the perfect mix of drugs he could be relevant again, but as it is there's just no spark there.

I mean, I'd love for George to say

>Star Wars was never the story I wanted to tell, but it was what I ended up telling. I have 4 billion dollars to play with. I'm going to make a movie for the ages. I'm going to make something better than Star Wars ever was. I'll see you in the rear view mirror, Disney.

But it will never happen. George is dried up.

What I don't understand is why he didn't just become an executive producer for starwars related films, launch a mini empire with him controlling the creative vision of the franchise and other executing it. He could have played god with ILM and pushed special effects and interactive storytelling with his game divisions.

He should have been able to have been a nerd god who made others do the work.

>He could have played god with ILM and pushed special effects
CGI was easier for him

... you do know he financed the prequels and had full creative control over every aspect.

He could make them literally whatever he wanted to. Same for the games and other mediums, he had the end say in the entire star wars dynasty for years.

He had every option to just assign a god-tier director and a basic plot outline and let them have at it, but chose to do it himself on a greenscreen.

He essentially gave it to disney for free.

The devil in his ear whispering about how he was going to die and his legacy would end with him. This in turn caused George to think about separating himself from the one thing that truly consumed him. He sold it soon after. The devil was named Kat Kennedy

In 2012 it was still probably worth 10-12 billion, as Lucas has already green-lit the ST

Prior to that, yeah 4B was probably reasonable given merchandise alone is almost 2B in revenue a year... but all the stuff George set in motion... he lowballed the fuck out of himself

I do know, I just don't understand why he did what he did. If he just took a step back and micromanaged less he would have been a god of story telling.

Obviously his skills are in creating compelling visual images and underlying themes. Even he himself admits he is shy communicating his internal thoughts into a dialogue, and that's why he struggled to get support early on in his career. If he had recognized his own weakness and just hired people to be the "mouth of Sauron" he never would have burnt out and the prequels would be remembered to be on the level of I Claudius.

iirc, he gave away all/most to charity, so he probably just wanted an out

Disney bought Marvel for $4 billion too. My question is if those two are really worth the same amount.

Why wouldn't just groom a few heirs? Create a few shows and movies to see who gets it the best and pass the torch to them?

Why didn't Fox think of making more Star Wars films? They had the biggest franchise in the world, and after ROTS they just sat on it until Disney bought it out from under them.

(I guess that's why Fox is no more)

Disney actually overpaid for Marvel IMO

Of course they have made that 4 Billion look like an AMAZING investment... but really when they bought it it was the Iron Man movie and the shitty ass comics. Not 4B worth of suff.

Star Wars on the other hand... they got the steal of the century

Lucas owned all the rights

They tricked Lucas, told him in return for a rather low pricetag he'd get to keep some creative control as an advisor.
Little did he know nothing of the sort happened.

It wasn't worth what he really ended up selling. His soul.

Considering Candy Crush the App game was sold for 5.9 billion, yes he did sell it low.

The MCU has made over 12 billion so far.

Yeah but why wasn't Fox like "hey we should make more of these"

Six Billion

Because Lucas didn't want to

The worst part is that he left them pretty detailed outlines for episodes 7-12 and Disney just threw them out as soon as the deal went through. I can imagine they'd been buttering him up, promising that they'd bring him on as a major creative consultant or something.

I don't know the particulars but I guarantee he got a deal on merch percentage and movies created even if it was miniscule. The man knew how toys/merch could make billions.

ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS

marvel was essentially dead when disney bought it, disney made it relevant

Do you actually think they were good though? Like seriously? And I don't mean in comparison to what we got, I just mean in general.

>Was that price too low?
He made an excellent deal. He wouldn't get the most out of it after the prequels disaster and it looks like Disney can't work it out either. Once everything is said and done people will only remember it for the original trilogy.

Reminder that a good portion of that is in Disney stock. He's likely the 3rd largest sole shareholder after Pearlmutter and the widow Jobs.

never a good thing to make a deal with the synagogue of satan

Disney bought Marvel for the merchandising. The movies and comics were just a bonus for getting Spider-Man toys.

He did that.

Whatsapp got bought for 19 billion, Minecraft got bought for 2.5 billion, instagram got bought for 1 billion.

Absolute creative control over a decades running franchise like star wars at 4 billion is an astronomically good deal in this age of overvalued acquisitions.

but he let Disney make new films. Fox could have easily asked Lucas the same thing.

oh well

He should have at least got 8 billion. Also, get it in writing about having creative control.

Yeah, for sure. Lucas has really good ideas, he just needs to be put on a leash. I can imagine if he was just a creative consultant it probably would have been, dare I say, great.

Unfortunately we will never know

Because Fox didn't pay him $4 billion

He got ripped off.

t. financial analyst

What rubbed me the wrong way was how Disney/Lucasfilm said they were going to go through all the EU and craft a new canon, essentially weeding out the bullshit and setting everything straight.

Then like a year later they just said... nah, fuck all of it, it's "legends" if you want it, we'll gladly sell it to you but it's not fucking real anymore. Instead come watch Finn fuck around with an asian lady on a casino planet, now that's canon.

Best thing about Star Wars, he was on a leash and didn't have full creative control.

Best thing about ESB is that he wasn't even directing or writing it and was just an ideas guy.

Then ROTJ hits with George wanting to be in the spot light again, and co-wrote the script, injecting his shitty ideas to generate toys.

Then the prequels happened with him writing, directing, and hiring only yes men who were so enamoured to be working with Lucas that they couldn't tell him that nearly every idea he had was terrible.

fucking minecraft sold for 2.5 billion

I don't even know what Lucas is doing with his money, he's been rich for so long I can't imagine it phased him terribly much.

Markus on the other hand... jesus christ ascended to the valhalla of neckbeards and just spends all his time shitposting from his mansion while gorging himself on his candy bar.

How pissed do you think their children were?

>"fuck yes, when dad dies we're going to get star wars!"
>goerge lucas sells star wars to disney for 4 billion
>"oh well, at least we'll get the money when he-"
>george donates all the money to charity

Isn't notch all depressed because he's a fat fuck with no friends

Walking around California malls and attending F1 and Indycar races seems to be how he spends 90% of his time

>Have you seen Red Tails? What a complete train wreck. The man can't even take a basic episode of history and turn it into something people actually want to see.
user it was the FIRST film with an all black cast

>sells Star Wars to Disney
>gives all the money to charity
why did he do this?

I doubt Lucas's children are starved for money

Rumor is that before he sold it, Lucas tried to get one of his kids interested in taking over maintenance of the IP. None of them were interested. They just want money.

I'd imagine, yes.

This still peeves me to no end

Ron Howard, Spielberg, Zemeckis and his other director buddies are also part of this sad story. George never wanted to direct the Prequels either, but because nobody had the balls to do them he ended up alone and surrounded by yes men. Poor guy probably thought he was going to have input with Disney and they were finally going to give him quality directors to work with, but now he's been backstabbed and his locked off from his life's work.

It's worse than that. Notch can never have a normal friendship/relationship. He can never be sure if anyone actually cares about him, or is just playing a con. Shit makes me wish he could just go incognito and make some IRL friends under an alias. The man can't even enjoy a nice board game night.

Same here user... they just couldn't be fucked to work around existing narratives and decided to scrap it all.

He should she tbqh

What are you even supposed to do with 4 bil dollars? You can spend 200K daily for 50 years because that shit runs out.

It's because they're not interested in quality. The Mouse knows people will gladly slurp up any shit he serves up so why pay royalties or residuals to past authors?
Lost Stars is literally the only thing I like post Lucas and even it has problems

Well, I mean... it's kind of his choice.

I'm not saying he can't keep the money or have nice things, but maybe buying a $70 million dollar mansion and stocking it like the fucking playboy party mansion isn't the best way for a nerd to make decent friends.

He's a fat nerd without a famous face, he could easily buy a decent house, tell people he works in the tech field and live a normal life without any worries and make friends that may genuinely care about him. He could easily be low-key about it, but chooses not to.

Most super rich people would take 4 billion dollars and probably invest it in some shady fund to make even more money

I wonder if he will ever release the scripts online for us to read.

Depends on the career path. Wall Street types would absolutely do this and be as shady as shit about it.

Hollywood types don't know what the fuck to do and hire a shady wall street type to do it for them.

Everytime a story breaks about someone relatively famous having investments in offshore accounts or something fishy I guarantee you they didn't have a single clue where their money was going.

I was thinking this the other day. TFA made well over a billion profit by itself.

Jar Jar prologue pls

Not including toy sales.

They also have comics, books, a theme park opening up, board games, legos, games, collectors items, art prints, and media sales.

It's been about 5 years or so since they bought it, I can almost guarantee they've recouped their purchase by 4 or 5 fold since then.

This.

Lucas ran out of ideas with ROTJ and that lazy writing has infected everything Star Wars ever since.

>New movie? New super weapon! Death Star II! Death Star III! Death Star Starship!

It's so old man. It's all so old, so tired.

Superweapons in Star Wars are like Super Villains in Marvel movies. It's like oh. Look. It's some new asshole with a shitty backstory that's here just so costume fagmen can save the day.

Considering they just bought FOX for 16, yeah Lucas got screwed. He could have easily milked them for 10bn.

Between rogue one and TFA they grossed over 3 billion... just in ticket sales.

I don't think ol' Georgey gives a shit if he could get more, $4b is a ridiculous amount of money for anyone.

>whatsapp
Literally who?

Facebook has more money that it knows what to do with, apparently.

>Be Lucas
>have plot for 7,8,9 laiad out
>get bullied into selling rights to deisney
>5 yearas later
>nu-wars is getting massive hate
>you see the writing on the wall, your baby is being raped for mouse bucks
>have 4 billion in the bank
>produce SPACE CONFLICTS: Chapter 7
>tell the story of a famer, Lou, who is a Jadey master and must overthrought the universal imperials with his friend Kyle Katana

The most popular messaging service in the developing world

t. fucking idiots

He tried to get other directors like Spielberg and Ron Howard to direct the prequels but no one wanted to do it they all suggested he direct them himself so he did

They probably read the scripts and didn't have the heart to tell him they'd gut the fucker and rewrite the whole thing.

Why didn't they want to do it?

>user it was the FIRST film with an all black cast
gets me every time.

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he's just like me

except I don't have any skills or creativity

They didn't want to be responsible for ruining Star Wars

I was kind of hoping he'd do this. I know he wont though.

Why is candy crush worth that much?

I wonder how easy it was to get a star wars novel or game made back when lucas didn't give a shit?

There's so much bullshit in the EU, he had to have just greenlit everything.

Why do you niggers always miss the obvious?

George Lucas needs to direct a Mortal Kombat trilogy, it would make all other franchises obsolete.

Microtransactions

Here's an idea: Lucas is actually a hack who got lucky by taking an English class at a community college and ripping off every movie and TV show he enjoyed throughout his life. There IS no movie for him to make, because all of his ideas are shit.

they are ruining star wars tho. whos going to see the next one when they know it will be ass just like the last?

About $30 billion because Disney didn't just get Star Wars, they also got the rights to Indiana Jones and all the EU hence they can choose to rip off parts of it as they make it non canon.

Based Lucas gave most of this money away to the poor and needy so he isn't a greedy guy.

THX1138 was profound and ahead of its time. apologize!

Because tech corporations have too much money, think diversifying assets is equivalent to overvaluation and overpaying for flash in the pan fads predominately used by a fickle and unloyal userbase.

Diversifying their investments is a great idea because eventually something else will come along and kick their asses, but jesus christ, it's like every platform/game/social media startup with a substantial userbase is somehow worth billions.

This is the tech bubble 2.0. No app company with 20 - 50 employees is worth billions.

I think there was actually a council that reviewed everything to judge whether it should be in the EU or not.

You just described Tarantino.

Tommy Wiseau said he wanted to make heaps of movies but has only done a couple shorts and that tv show Neighbors after the Room. Sure he's starring in a movie with Greg soon but someone like him tended to stop actual production once the Room became popular.

Lucas is kind of similar with after ANH, he just produced the others until the Prequels and then didn't bother making anymore.

Why not? Surely he would actually feel like making as much as he can. He took take parts of the prequels and make it into an entirely different film say if he wanted to make an R Rated version of Star Wars (that Revenge of the Sith felt like it wanted to be) he could easily make similar characters in a different world and do whatever he wants without any executive producers hounding him.

Quentin "It's a Black Male Thang" Tarantino is a hack as well but probably has twenty times the amount of television and film knowledge Lucas does.

nah, Jedi and the prequels had good stories. it may not have been written as well as empire or a new hope but Jedi was solid (aside from how you feel about ewoks) and the prequels were mediocre at best but with a good plot in there somewhere.

much rather see what George had in store than what the fuck we got now. though, if he HAD made it people would be bitching anyway. they wouldn't know what disaster we could have avoided with Disney. oh well.

$4 billion dollars for a set of ideas if fucking huge

I mean it's hard to imagine how a man could even begin to spend that kind of money. That's fuck-you money.

This is why all famous people are freaks that ask everyone to suck their penis. It starts out as a shit test to see who are true friends but nobody ever says no because they love your money too much.

>depressed because he's a fat fuck with no friends

yeah, I'm that now but poor.
he can't be THAT depressed.

He should make The Leo Frank Story, a true historical drama about how a plucky misunderstood Jewish factory owner in Georgia was framed by an criminal mastermind illiterate negro for the rape and murder of a young White girl, and the evil racist townsfolk believed the half-retarded schwarze over the upstanding Hebrew and the heroic Anti-Defamation League had to be formed to put the blame back on the darkie where it belonged. Sadly, Frank is lynched when the stupid KKK rednecks insist on the innocence of the colored-man no matter how much money is thrown into getting Frank's sentence commuted. Truly a story that will tug at the heartstrings of America.