{"id":2089,"date":"2015-12-06T21:44:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T02:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital.hbs.edu\/platform-rctom\/submission\/the-force-is-with-mickey-mouse\/"},"modified":"2015-12-06T21:53:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T02:53:23","slug":"the-force-is-with-mickey-mouse","status":"publish","type":"hck-submission","link":"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/submission\/the-force-is-with-mickey-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Force is with Mickey Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mickey<\/a>Growing Up a Star Wars <\/em>Fan<\/h1>\n

It was 1995 and at the age of five my life was forever changed\u2014I fell in love with the epic space opera Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope<\/em>. That Halloween I dressed up as Darth Vader and vividly recall making some candy fly into my trick-or-treat box through nothing more than my mastery of the force! My Star Wars<\/em> mania accelerated as I immersed myself in Star Wars<\/em> books and video games, all as I fantasized about a galaxy far far away. It should come as no surprise that I, along with many Star Wars <\/em>fanatics, approached the announcement of Disney\u2019s $4 billion acquisition of Lucasfilm [1] and Disney\u2019s intent to create another Star Wars <\/em>trilogy [2] with moderated skepticism. It was as recently as 2008 that George Lucas, my Jedi hero and the creator of Star Wars<\/em>, stated that \u201cthere will definitely be no Episodes VII-IX<\/em>\u2026that\u2019s because there isn\u2019t any story\u201d [3]. Surprised as I was, I resolved to dig into Disney and understand if Lucas had, in fact, fallen to the dark side.<\/p>\n