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The president of Disney, Bob Iger, acknowledged that the creator of Star Wars, George Lucas, felt "betrayed" to learn the plans of the entertainment empire on the film universe he devised in 1977.

In his memoirs, the top Disney executive recalled that the creator of Star Wars did not agree with the creative choices made by the company after the purchase of his Lucasfilm studio, specialized publications reported Tuesday echoing the leader’s statements .

"At the first meeting with him about the future of Star Wars, George felt betrayed, and although this whole process had never been easy for him, we had an unnecessarily difficult start," Iger said in the book "The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned From 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, " recently published.

Lucas founded his Lucasfilm company to control his creations directly, but the success of the first Star Wars film and its sequels turned the company into an entertainment giant that sold to The Walt Disney Company in 2012.

In the book, Iger revealed that Disney also bought Lucas' writings for three new films when he reached an agreement to acquire Lucasfilm in 2012, although that purchase was made, in part, by a sense of obligation, as the president suggested : "We decided we needed to buy them."

"Although we made it clear in the purchase agreement that we would not be contractually obligated to adhere to the plot lines he had established," Iger said.

In the end, Disney and the new Lucasfilm, directed by Kathleen Kennedy, did not follow Lucas's ideas for the new films, a decision the creator discovered when the Star Wars: The Force Awakens team met to discuss the new trilogy, and specifically the 2015 delivery.

"George was immediately upset when they began to describe the plot and realized that we were not using one of the stories he presented during the negotiations," Iger revealed.

"He knew we were not contractually linked to anything," he said, "but he thought that buying the sketches of the story was an unspoken promise that we would follow them, and he was disappointed that his story would be discarded."

"I was very careful since our first conversation so as not to deceive him in any way, and I didn't think I would have done it, but I could have handled it better," Iger settled.

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