Lucasfilm reportedly going back to just Star Wars and Indiana Jones

In 2019, Disney picked up the rights to Tomi Adeyemi's YA book Children Of Blood And Bone , a fantasy story that had apparently made an impression on Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy and was set to become that studio's first completely new thing—unrelated to Star Wars or Indiana Jones or any other George Lucas legacy properties—since getting acquired by Disney. That's a big deal, since whatever happened with Children Of Blood And Bone would then speak to whatever Kennedy and Disney had in mind for Lucasfilm after the new Star Wars trilogy had ended. Advertisement Now, that's exactly what's happening… but not in the way anyone expected. According to The Hollywood Reporter , Disney and Lucasfilm allowed the rights to Children Of Blood And Bone to lapse after deciding to just focus on Star Wars —making it pretty clear that Disney's plans for Lucasfilm involve making the same old stuff and that's about it. Part of the problem was apparently Adeyemi's frustration over Lucasfilm's refusal to let her write the adaptation, particularly as it became clear that the project was stalled. Late last year, though, the studio quietly gave up the rights to Paramount in a bidding war and now… Read full this story

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