George Lucas felt betrayed when Disney didn't use his 'Star Wars' sequel outlines, which may have been involved the mystery of the Whills

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George Lucas never got to tell the story of the Whills and, in a new memoir by Disney CEO Bob Iger, it seems he felt 'betrayed' by the new 'Star Wars' movies.

. According to Lucas, his version of the"There's this world of creatures that operate differently than we do. I call them the Whills. And the Whills are the ones who actually control the universe. They feed the Force," Lucas said."If I'd held onto the company I could have done it,and then it would have been done.

"The truth was, Kathy, J.J., Alan, and I had discussed the direction in which the saga should go, and we all agreed that it wasn't what George had outlined," Iger writes."George knew we weren't contractually bound to anything, but he thought that our buying the story treatments was a tacit promise that we'd follow them, and he was disappointed that his story was being discarded.

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