Ryan McAvoy said:

CO said:

dan76 said:

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.

Disney paid 4 billion to Lucas, so I am 99.9% sure they can do whatever they want with the franchise at this point.

They could have paid Lucas 4 Trillion dollars, but if he doesn't own the rights the ball is still in Fox's court.

Well, yes Fox could prevent Disney from releasing any of the existing movies (except for I think the Clone Wars movie? but who really cares about that), but why would Fox block Lucasfilm now just because it's owned by Disney? From my understanding, Fox is just in control of distribution rights; they don't own anything other than that.