Star Wars: Episode VII 2013

The film will be after Episode VI, Return of the Jedi, but more accurately. It "will continue the story of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia" 2. Lucas gave Disney its history projects for the new trilogie3. The "following" Episode VI had already been drafted in a novel by Timothy Zahn, Heir to the Empire (1991), recognized by George Lucas in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, and part the "official canon" 4.5. In response to speculation, however, a Lucasfilm representative tells Entertainment Television channel that the story of the episode VII will be unique, and not an adaptation of the novel Zahn4. The Los Angeles Times reveals that during the months before the announcement of the film, "several writers known with experience in Hollywood films to big budget," informed the episode VII prepared, met George Lucas Kathleen Kennedy to propose projects scénario5. Jay Rasulo, chief financial officer of The Walt Disney Company also announced that the film has a film treatment (concrete project with draft script) 5.