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#Starwars , #Jedi #Georgelucas #Lucasfilm If you're looking to become one of the wealthiest people in the world, it's simple: just create one of the most lucrative and famous franchises of all time and then sell it to one of the biggest companies in existence. Piece of cake, right? Well, that's what George Lucas managed to do and he has now topped Forbes’ list of America’s wealthiest celebrities. According to Forbes, the man behind the entire Star Wars franchise has a net worth of $5.4 billion. They claim he earned the top spot largely in part to the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney, which happened back in 2012 for $4.1 billion. Since making the big sale, Lucas hasn’t been heavily involved in the Star Wars world, which has been branching out exponentially since the purchase. In addition to the current main trilogy, which became the first since Lucas helmed the Star Wars prequels between 1999 and 2005, there have already been multiple stand-alone films (Rogue One: A Star

Ruthlessly threatening to merge the cornerstones of the various geek genres—potentially causing some kind of nerd apocalypse, or possibly just yet another Comic-Con—J.J. Abrams has cast his old Lost buddy, Dominic Monaghan, in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode IX. This news comes to us courtesy of Deadline , faster they you can, say, spend upwards of an entire afternoon trying to come up with a joke that merges “That’s no moon” with “Not Penny’s boat” in an enjoyable or organic way. Monaghan’s best-known film role, of course, is from Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Ring movies, where he played eventual surprise action hero Meriadoc “Merry” Brandybuck. There’s no word yet on who he’ll be playing in Episode IX, but he sounds pretty excited to get another billion-dollar franchise under his belt, releasing a statement noting that, “The galaxy far far away has had almost as much influence as the one I live in, so I am delighted to be involved.” By  William Hughes