You may or may not have heard that George Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney for $4.05b. A deal which includes all of the Lucasfilm franchises and subsidiaries, which means that Disney now owns Star Wars. Not ones to waste time, Disney have already announced a release schedule for future films in the franchise starting with Episode VII in 2015 then followed by one new movie every two or three years.
There seems to be a great many fans who have some concerns about the direction in which Disney will take the franchise. To them I say, 'It couldn't be worse than The Phantom Menace'.
Disney aren't bad at this sort of thing. They don't buy up franchises just to fill them with mice and ducks. Recently they have let them run pretty much as they did before, except giving them the benefit of having one of the world's most prolific and successful branding machines behind them. They bought Pixar in '06 and Marvel in '09, and no one seems to have been complaining about the quality of those franchises in the meantime.
It is also worth mentioning that with the purchase of Lucasfilm, Disney also now owns Indiana Jones, Monkey Island (through LucasArts) and Willow. WILLOW! I want Willow 2: The Peck Returns. Madmartigan could also have his own series of spinoffs where he just gets into trouble and then fights some guys then gets the girl. That is the bigger picture here. In the same way that they opted to get behind the film adaptation of an obscure Marvel property like Guardians of the Galaxy (yes, that is a space raccoon with a blaster), Disney has the resources and the man power to milk all of the Lucasfilm properties, not just focus on George's personal need to justify the entire prequel trilogy debacle to the fan base.
Monkey Island/Pirates of the Caribbean crossover! I'm done here.
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