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In a new book, Bob Iger the head of Disney admits to how they swindled George Lucas out of Star Wars.
George was given the false impression that he would still be in charge of Star Wars, but not have the burden of personally writing and directing the next three films, and instead would write outlines and oversee the production on each film and not have to independently put together a project himself. However after he sold the rights they told George that they had no legal obligation to do anything he wanted and told him to fuck off.
>"At some point in the process, George told me that he had completed outlines for three new movies. He agreed to send us three copies of the outlines: one for me; one for Alan Braverman; and one for Alan Horn, who’d just been hired to run our studio. Alan Horn and I read George’s outlines and decided we needed to buy them, though we made clear in the purchase agreement that we would not be contractually obligated to adhere to the plot lines he’d laid out."
>>"He knew that I was going to stand firm on the question of creative control, but it wasn’t an easy thing for him to accept. And so he reluctantly agreed to be available to consult with us at our request. I promised that we would be open to his ideas (this was not a hard promise to make; of course we would be open to George Lucas’s ideas), but like the outlines, we would be under no obligation."
