The Empire has expanded.
First Disney reanimated itself with Pixar. Then it snared Marvel in its web. And now, it, umm, did something... Star Warsy by buying Lucasfilm.
Here's a video of George Lucas and new Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy discussing the deal. In the video, Lucas says he's stepping down because he doesn't want to run a corporation anymore. He also says, "When I first made Star Wars, everybody in Hollywood said this is a movie Disney should have made."
Then...
"I always thought I wasn't going to do any more. That's true...But that doesn't mean I'm unwilling to turn it over to Kathy to do more. I have story treatments of [Star Wars episodes] 7,8 and 9 and a bunch of other movies, and obviously we have hundreds of books and comics...