By the way, in case anyone's still in the "Is this a joke" stage of denial, I have family who work for Disney, and apparently an internal e-mail was sent out earlier today confirming it was happening. So yeah.




That said, I'm pretty happy about this. Lucas had previously said he had no intention of making more star wars movies, and after the prequels, and fan reactions to them, I can't say I blame him (or would try particularly hard to change his mind). I for one am interested to see where Disney takes the franchise.

As an aside, I don't understand all of the "Mickey is going to be Luke Skywalker!" jokes. When's the last time Mickey even appeared in a disney movie, much less one where it wasn't appropriate.