Either way would have been a financial drop in the bucket to purchase those rights or threaten legal ownership because they bought star wars through Lucas. Either way Disney fumbled hard on a possible billion dollar property that proves capitalist can’t even capitalism properly.
They did, they got everything, when Lucas sold out to the ‘white slavers’.
Which is why they intially declared nearly all EU stuff to be non canon (‘Legends’), and then started making bit and pieces of them canon, by piecemeal making media with many of the characters and concepts and half plot arcs and beats from them, into various parts of their movies and shows.
George had been very careful to run everything through Lucasfilm.
They even got Zahn to come back and write new Thrawn and Ashoka books, to try to make those characters make more sense with the new canon.
It really was as simple as “Kathleen Kennedy decided she knew best, fucked up continuously and broke everything, pretended the entire time she did everything on purpose.”
I wonder if they even had to purchase the film rights to those books separately, or if they came included in the deal.
Either way would have been a financial drop in the bucket to purchase those rights or threaten legal ownership because they bought star wars through Lucas. Either way Disney fumbled hard on a possible billion dollar property that proves capitalist can’t even capitalism properly.
They did, they got everything, when Lucas sold out to the ‘white slavers’.
Which is why they intially declared nearly all EU stuff to be non canon (‘Legends’), and then started making bit and pieces of them canon, by piecemeal making media with many of the characters and concepts and half plot arcs and beats from them, into various parts of their movies and shows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrawn_trilogy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_in_other_media#Disney_acquisition_and_canon_restructuring
They… they got all of Lucasfilm.
Thats literally all StarWars IP, up to 2014.
George had been very careful to run everything through Lucasfilm.
They even got Zahn to come back and write new Thrawn and Ashoka books, to try to make those characters make more sense with the new canon.
It really was as simple as “Kathleen Kennedy decided she knew best, fucked up continuously and broke everything, pretended the entire time she did everything on purpose.”