dan76 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

My point was that Lucas isn't in control anymore. Lucas owned Lucasfilm, which produced the movies, and Disney bought Lucasfilm. Yes Disney is still beholden to previous contracts and deals, i.e. Fox distribution rights, but I doubt Disney has any requirement to put up with George's "true vision" nonsense

I'm not sure about that. I could well imagine part of the deal involved not releasing the OUT. Lucas is fanatical about this, he's spent a lot of time and energy trying to erase the original versions.

I guess it depends how much he still cares. Hopefully he has just let go.

From what I've read though (and again that's mostly just speculation), Disney made sure to get everything from Lucas. Disney bought Lucasfilm, and Star Wars is owned by Lucasfilm. I have a hard time believing Disney would give a man 4 billion dollars and then continue to allow him to make business decisions for them. George is also a businessman, and I would hope he isn't naive enough to think you can sell someone something as valuable as Star Wars and then tell them what to do with it after you don't own it anymore. Basically, I just doubt Disney would sign a contract that specifically prevented them from releasing something of what would soon be their own property