George Lucas Focuses on Museum After Selling Star Wars to Disney

Thirteen years after selling Lucasfilm to Disney for about 4 billion, George Lucas says he has largely moved on from the franchise that made him a household name, focusing instead on a long‑planned museum project in Los Angeles. In a recent interview, Lucas described handing control of Star Wars to Disney as a natural outcome and said he is concentrating on building the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which he called more challenging than making movies.

Lucas completed the sale in 2012, transferring the Star Wars saga into Disney’s stewardship. Since then the company has overseen a new sequel trilogy and a slate of streaming series, including The Mandalorian, Andor, Ahsoka, The Acolyte and The Book of Boba Fett. Those efforts have produced hits and misses, critics and fans have offered mixed reactions, and the franchise’s theatrical and streaming strategy has shifted multiple times, leaving some announced film projects delayed, reworked or shelved.

The museum has become Lucas’s main public focus. The project, developed with his wife Mellody Hobson, occupies an 11 acre campus and has been built at a cost of roughly 1 billion. It is scheduled to open in 2026 and will feature 33...