OT Fans: “If you want to release the unaltered OT, you need to talk to 20th Century Fox.”
Kennedy: “Why is that?”
OT Fans: “Because Fox still owns the rights to 1977’s original Star Wars. So you have to finalise an extraordinary complex agreement in which you…”
Disney: “We bought 20th Century Fox.”
[Everybody turns and stares at them. Disney just shrugs]
Disney: “It seemed neater.”