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George Lucas sports Star Wars tee in St. Barts despite selling rights to Disney in 2012


George Lucas may have sold the rights to Star Wars to Disney nearly a decade ago, but his love for the franchise is far from gone. He was spotted in St. Barts sporting a t-shirt featuring a Stormtrooper.

The legendary director, 80, who pocketed a staggering $4 billion from the 2012 sale of Lucasfilm to the House of Mouse, was recently spotted in St. Barts sporting a casual t-shirt featuring the classic Stormtrooper In a 2015 interview with Empire Magazine, Lucas admitted he wasn’t happy with the film, stating that Disney 'wanted to make a retro movie' and didn’t follow his planned direction for the series. At the time of the monumental Lucasfilm sale—also including his company’s Industrial Light & Magic and the rights to Indiana Jones—Lucas compared parting with Star Wars to losing a family member; (seen in December)

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