U.S. stamp commemorating Star Wars.
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Due industry for final year’s $4 billion merger by Walt Disney Co. of Lucasfilm compulsory a client to check that George Lucas did, in fact, possess a rights to some 10,000 characters and elements from his 6 Star Wars movies.

So Brian McCarthy, who heads a Los Angeles bureau of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher Flom, motionless it done clarity to convene Star Wars fans operative during a organisation for a job, given they would already be informed with characters. He was astounded by how many he found and a border of their knowledge, recounts a Hollywood Reporter.

“I attempted to find people in a bureau who … didn’t have to spend time reckoning out who Princess Leia was,” McCarthy says. “I was repelled by how many people knew a intricacies of whose father-in-law was married to whose sister.”

Hat tip: TheForce.net