Thanks a lot. Here's the nuts and bolts:Nomad said:George Lucas short interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyqlTi7lkhY
Lucas: "I've been talking about retiring for several years now ... I'm not in the film business anymore, and I don't [have to] run a corporation."
Lucas: "I wanted to put the company somewhere in a larger entity who could protect it."
Lucas: "The great thing about Disney is ... between the parks and all the things they've got going, it's great that we have a chance to expand that."
Lucas: "I have story treatments of 7, 8 and 9 and a bunch of other movies. And obviously there are hundreds of books and comics (said in a hilariously dismissive way)."
Kennedy: "The main thing is to protect these characters. To make sure that they still continue to let them live in the way that you created them, and that the universe of Star Wars continues to grow."
I've quoted the parts I thought were revealing. Don't particularly like they idea of them employing the original cast, which is what it sounds like Kennedy was implying in that last quote. I also don't like that Lucas has treatments for the next trilogy, but maybe those will serve only as a thin outline (I want to believe...).