One year ago — the afternoon of Oct. 30, 2012 — we got what was probably the year's biggest entertainment storyGeorge Lucas was selling his company to Disney, and that meant a whole slate of new Star Wars movies. A million geeks felt a great disturbance in the Force, and took to Twitter to tap out all the Disney-related Star Wars jokes they could muster
But far from killing the franchise, as many feared, Disney has given it a new lease on life. I predicted as much in this widely-shared op-ed a year ago, and have spent most of the intervening time reporting a book on the Star Wars phenomenon
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