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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 8056053" data-attributes="member: 14159">No.I've read and studied a LOT about the Disney acquisition of LFL.Disney originally made an offer in the summer 2011, but Lucas didn't take it seriously and refused, not wanting to sell the company.&nbsp; What changed his mind was the flop of the film Red Tails in January 2012.&nbsp; It flopped hard enough that LFL would have to lay off most of its employees and seriously reduce operations to avoid bankruptcy.&nbsp; Lucas didn't want that, and thought that selling LFL to Disney would protect the jobs of the people that worked there.&nbsp; So, Lucas talked to the &quot;Big 3&quot; OT cast members of Hamill, Ford, and Fisher to get them under contract &quot;in case&quot; LFL ever made another trilogy (Hamill has said that he had no idea when he signed that Lucas was going to sell LFL, and that sequel films were only mentioned by Lucas as something he was just contemplating possibly doing one day, so he signed not knowing that Lucas was planning to sell his contract to Disney), and wrote some script outlines as a way to pad the asking price of the company, then called Bob Iger back (who was an old acquaintance of Lucas's, having met back in the early 90's when Lucas was making Young Indiana Jones and Iger was a low-level employee at ABC working on the show), and they made negotiations in the Spring and Summer of 2012, such as Kathleen Kennedy coming on as Co-CEO in summer 2012 to facilitate the transition before the deal was finalized in October 2012.There are no indications that Lucas was seriously considering selling LFL before January 2012, and the earliest that they've even mentioned that Disney showed any interest was 2011.WotC's Star Wars license was from 2000 to 2010.&nbsp; Their first RPG product, the original core rules came out in November 2000, and they purged their website of all Star Wars content circa July 2010.&nbsp; So, when license renewal was an issue was over a year before the buyout was even first proposed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 8056053, member: 14159"] No. I've read and studied a LOT about the Disney acquisition of LFL. Disney originally made an offer in the summer 2011, but Lucas didn't take it seriously and refused, not wanting to sell the company. What changed his mind was the flop of the film Red Tails in January 2012. It flopped hard enough that LFL would have to lay off most of its employees and seriously reduce operations to avoid bankruptcy. Lucas didn't want that, and thought that selling LFL to Disney would protect the jobs of the people that worked there. So, Lucas talked to the "Big 3" OT cast members of Hamill, Ford, and Fisher to get them under contract "in case" LFL ever made another trilogy (Hamill has said that he had no idea when he signed that Lucas was going to sell LFL, and that sequel films were only mentioned by Lucas as something he was just contemplating possibly doing one day, so he signed not knowing that Lucas was planning to sell his contract to Disney), and wrote some script outlines as a way to pad the asking price of the company, then called Bob Iger back (who was an old acquaintance of Lucas's, having met back in the early 90's when Lucas was making Young Indiana Jones and Iger was a low-level employee at ABC working on the show), and they made negotiations in the Spring and Summer of 2012, such as Kathleen Kennedy coming on as Co-CEO in summer 2012 to facilitate the transition before the deal was finalized in October 2012. There are no indications that Lucas was seriously considering selling LFL before January 2012, and the earliest that they've even mentioned that Disney showed any interest was 2011. WotC's Star Wars license was from 2000 to 2010. Their first RPG product, the original core rules came out in November 2000, and they purged their website of all Star Wars content circa July 2010. So, when license renewal was an issue was over a year before the buyout was even first proposed. [/QUOTE]

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