Star Wars: 10 Things That Didn’t Go The Way George Lucas Wanted
1. The Sequel Trilogy
Despite ultimately deciding to all-but part ways with his galaxy far, far away in 2012 upon Disney's purchasing of Lucasfilm, George Lucas still found himself involved in the process of bringing the House of Mouse's Sequel Trilogy into existence, acting as a creative consultant during its early stages of development.
However, as Lucas would later go on to confess in a conversation with CinemaBlend in 2015, pretty much all of his original ideas for the next trilogy of Skywalker Saga flicks, and The Force Awakens in particular, were binned off early on.
Later on, Lucas would frequently take aim at Disney's direction heading into The Force Awakens, criticising the first entry's "retro feel", with the Sequels definitely going down a completely different road to the one previously planned by Lucas many moons ago.
As revealed in Taschen's The Star Wars Archives 1999-2005, Lucas wanted to centre the tale around Leia Organa's rebuilding of the Republic, with Darth Maul returning to train "the new Darth Vader" in the form of a girl known as Darth Talon.
Aside from Leia acting as the leader of the Resistance in a supporting capacity, though, it seems Disney had little interest in sticking to Lucas's initial plan for the stories that would follow his sacred Original space-opera trio.