http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/19/the-folly-of-empire-how-star-wars-menaced-hollywood
...for their $4.05bn, Disney did want something from George Lucas. The purchase had included the rights to Star Wars and so the fictional empire would be revisited. Why not? For just as Lucasfilm was the source of so much hi-tech movie-making, so it had inspired star fleets of franchises for mainstream cinema: the Harry Potter films, Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Pirates of the Caribbean and so many other reiterations not quite as distinguished or so much fun, but all contributing to the principle that cinema now makes a world that never was and never could be. It’s even possible that the glory of Star Wars helped sustain that creaking dinosaur, James Bond.
