No, George Lucas Is Not Returning….
After a day of speculation, fueled by several posts citing anonymous sources, one VERY REPUTABLE reporter says don’t hold your breath.
ABC News’ Clayton Sandell — who actually works for The Walt Disney Company — confirmed GEORGE LUCAS IS NOT RETURNING (in any capacity) to the upcoming Cassian Andor series on Disney+.


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Sandell Sets Us Straight
FACT CHECK: No, George Lucas is NOT returning to write/produce/direct the Cassian Andor series for Disney+. Yes, I'm embarrassed to say I checked into it and bothered actual sources. This has been Friday's edition of Debunking Ridiculous Star Wars Clickbait Rumors. As you were.
— Clayton Sandell (@Clayton_Sandell) February 8, 2020
He’s one of only a few Star Wars sources I turn to when I want to know exactly what’s going on. If he or Anthony Breznican aren’t posting about it. Well, it’s not happening.
And while a non-mention would suffice, an actual fact check – well, it’s the atom bomb of debunking.
End. Of. Story.
Actual News About George (Or, actually, George’s Museum)
And, as far as actual news about Mr. Lucas, Smithsonian Magazine posted:
George Lucas’ New Museum Acquires Major Archive of African American Film History
The Separate Cinema Archive contains more than 37,000 objects dating from 1904 to the present
Theresa Machemer wrote:
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, a new cultural institution co-founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas, has acquired a major collection of memorabilia documenting the history of African American film from 1904 to 2019.
Dubbed the Separate Cinema Archive, the trove derives its name from the “race films” produced for African American audiences during the first half of the 20th century. Created by independent production companies outside of the “mainstream” film industry, the movies featured all-African American casts and created “a parallel universe of black films, with its own stars and traditions,” according to a statement.
The archive contains more than 37,000 objects, including posters, film stills, scripts and a reference library collected by film historian John Duke Kisch over the course of some 40 years. Kisch housed the archive in Poughkeepsie, New York, storing containers of memorabilia raised on blocks and wheels to protect them from floods, reported the New York Times’ Eve M. Kahn in 2014. At the time, curators from “major institutions” had visited the archive, which was for sale at an undisclosed seven-figure price. Read more…


Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
Anyway. That’s a pretty good story. The truth, too. But (unfortunately) that truth doesn’t include Cassian Andor.