Star Wars The Force Awakens: Disney rejected George Lucas' ideas for the new film?

Disney didn't want any of George Lucas' ideas for the new Star Wars movie! As surprising as it sounds, that's what the creator and director of the multi-billion dollar Star Wars film franchise recently revealed.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens will not include any of the ideas put forward by Lucas for the new trilogy. "The ones that I sold to Disney, they came up to the decision that they didn't really want to do those," he told Cinema Blend during a recent interview. "So they made up their own. So it's not the ones that I originally wrote." (via ComicBookResources)

Earlier this month, Lucas revealed that he had started developing a new Star Wars trilogy and intended to finish Episode 7 for release in May 2015 post which he would sell Lucasfilm to Disney.

But Disney came along in 2012 with a $4.06bn (£3bn) and its own plan. "It's better for me to get out at the beginning of a new thing and I can just remove myself," the filmmaker - who also realised a new trilogy would require at least a 10-year commitment - stated.

Lucas, however, didn't say what his ideas for the film were. Directed by JJ Abrams, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is slated for release on 18 December, 2015.