When George Lucas sold Star Wars to Disney for $4.05 billion in 2012, the deal was celebrated as one of the biggest entertainment acquisitions in history — but footage and interviews from the years that followed revealed a far more complicated emotional reality for the creator of the saga. Lucas later admitted he felt like he had “sold his kids to the white slavers,” a harsh metaphor reflecting his regret over losing control of the universe he built. Although the deal made him one of the richest