You can bet your ass Disney CEO Bob Iger was rubbing his hands together in glee the day that his company acquired Lucasfilm. Not at the prospect of being able to continue the Star Wars saga, mind; he was probably thinking about all that delicious merchandising money that'd soon be coming his way. Action figures, lunch boxes, posters, video games: the Star Wars licensing universe is almost as large as the Expanded Universe itself, and Disney seem very keen to make it even bigger if their plans to release spin-off movies every year between trilogy installments are anything to go by. What's more, they'll want to ensure that everything in the new movies is as commercially viable as possible, so don't expect to see too much violence or anything that might be deemed un-Disney in Episode VII. We know that George Lucas originally intended Star Wars to be a kids' movie, but there's a difference between a kids' movie made independently of the studio system that values the power of mythic storytelling and one made to shill cuddly toys.
