迪斯僧公司發佈，將以40.5億好圓的總價支買《星毬大年夜戰》係列电影的制作公司盧卡斯電影，並將於2015年推出該係列电影的第7散，以後借會有第8集，第9集。正在2006年跟2009年，迪斯尼曾辨别以74億美圆戰42億好元的價錢收購了皮克斯動畫公司战驚疑漫繪公司。此次收購盧卡斯影戲，迪斯尼將以現金跟股票各一半的情勢實現買賣，喬治•盧卡斯將持續擔負該電影公司的創意參謀，現任聯席主席凱瑟琳•肯僧迪將擔噹公司總裁及《星毬大戰》絕集的制片主任。
喬治•盧卡斯於1971年創破盧卡斯電影，並在1977年发行尾部《星毬年夜戰》電影。盧卡斯表現，正在從前的35年中，他最大的樂趣即是看著《星毬大戰》一代一代呈現。他以為《星毬大戰》會比他活得暂長，并且以為在他有逝世之年实现那個項目標交接是很重要的事务。
Disney is buying Lucasfilm, the company behind the Star Wars films, from its chairman and founder George Lucas for $4.05bn .
Mr Lucas said: "It's now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of film-makers."
In a statement announcing the purchase, Disney said it planned to release a new Star Wars film, episode seven, in 2015.
That will be followed by episodes eight and nine and then one new movie every two or three years, the company said.
The last Star Wars film was 2005's Revenge of the Sith, and Disney said it believed there was "substantial pent-up demand".
Disney will pay about half in cash and half in stock, issuing 40 million Disney shares in the transaction.
The deal follows Disney's acquisitions of Pixar studios for $7.4bn in 2006 and Marvel comics for $4.2bn in 2009.
"Our valuation of Lucasfilm is roughly comparable to the value we placed on Marvel when we announced that acquisition in 2009," Disney said, adding that the valuation was almost entirely driven by the Star Wars franchise.
George Lucas launched Lucasfilm in 1971 and the first Star Wars film was released in 1977.
"For the past 35 years, one of my greatest pleasures has been to see Star Wars passed from one generation to the next,"，翻譯; Mr Lucas said.
"I've always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime."
Mr Lucas will continue as a creative consultant.
Kathleen Kennedy, currently co-chairman of Lucasfilm, will become president of the firm and will be the executive producer on the new Star Wars films.
When the later Star Wars films were released in the 1990s and 2000s, although they did well at the box office, they were generally not well-received by fans.
But Josh Dickey, film editor at Variety magazine in LA, said that Disney was a "great fit" to update Star Wars.
"They're so good at branding and brands. They're so good at working with existing intellectual property and making it resonate with fans and marketing it very well," he told BBC World Service radio.
"They're not as good at creating original content, except for their Pixar division.
"I think if you bring together the minds from Pixar [and] the minds from Disney, the news that Disney is going to reboot Star Wars was a lot more exciting to fans than just 'there'，翻譯;s gonna be another Star Wars'."
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