Now is everyone thinking what i'm thinking........over kill of a saga? it has been confirmed that Disney have brought the rights to make another 3 films following after the return of the Jedi starring Luke sky-walker, Leia & Han solo. Now seriously Harrison ford is in his 70s i cant see him return to play this role there is no way in hell can they replace him with another actor, Carrie fisher must be in her 50s now pushing 60, same with mark Hamill he must be push 60 now.I personally think Disney are going to ruin one of the best films in history by over killing a saga making 3 more films,im shore a lot of people would agree with me & some wouldn't but i don't think another 3 films should be made because its over kill even tho im a star-wars fan myself, that's just my opinion.
Disney is buying Lucas film, the
company behind the Star Wars films, from its chairman and founder George Lucas
for $4.05bn (£2.5bn).
Mr Lucas said: "It's now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of film-makers."
In a statement announcing the purchase, Disney said it planned to release a new Star Wars film, episode seven, in 2015.
That will be followed by episodes eight and nine and then one new movie every two or three years, the company said.
The last Star Wars film was 2005's Revenge of the Sith, and Disney said it believed there was "substantial pent-up demand".
George Lucas launched Lucas film in 1971 and the first Star Wars film was released in 1977.
"For the past 35 years, one of my greatest pleasures has been to see Star Wars passed from one generation to the next," Mr Lucas said.
"I've always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime."
Mr Lucas will continue as a creative consultant.
Kathleen Kennedy, currently co-chairman of Lucas film, will become president of the firm and will be the executive producer on the new Star Wars films.
When the later Star Wars films were released in the 1990s and 2000s, although they did well at the box office, they were generally not well-received by fans.
But Josh Dickey, film editor at Variety magazine in LA, said that Disney was a "great fit" to update Star Wars.
"They're so good at branding and brands. They're so good at working with existing intellectual property and making it resonate with fans and marketing it very well," he told BBC World Service radio.
"They're not as good at creating original content, except for their Pixar division.
"I think if you bring together the minds from Pixar [and] the minds from Disney, the news that Disney is going to reboot Star Wars was a lot more exciting to fans than just 'there's gonna be another Star Wars'
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