Star Wars creator George Lucas was pretty shrewd in how he went about preparing Lucasfilm and the Star Wars franchise for its sale to Disney last year.
According to Businessweek's in-depth chat with all the principals involved in the sale, Lucas actually started actively developing the new Star Wars trilogy last year before the company was sold to Disney, thus increasing its value at the time of the deal.
He even went so far as to begin formal discussions with stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher about returning to the series that made them famous and crafting treatments for the next trilogy with screenwriter Michael Arndt and consultant and Star Wars vet Lawrence Kasdan before even agreeing to show the Disney brass the rough outlines for Star Wars: Episode VII, VIII and IX.
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