Watch: George Lucas & Kathleen Kennedy Talk Future of ‘Star Wars’

This is a lot to process. If you haven’t heard already, Disney is now in control of Lucasfilm and Star Wars: Episode 7 is coming in 2015. The studio plans to release the rest of a new trilogy every other year so you can expect Star Wars: Episode 8 in 2017 and Star Wars: Episode 9 in 2019. In this big news also comes Kathleen Kennedy as President of Lucasfilm, and she sat down with George Lucas today to talk about the future of Star Wars. This is where Lucas announces that Star Wars: Episode 7 is real, talks about treatments that he has for sequels and more, and passes them off to Kathleen Kennedy and Disney He will not be directing or writing these new movies at all, so maybe disgruntled fans should have hope. Watch! Here’s George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy talking about the future of Star Wars: We figured …