Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「Alan Dean Foster was in his late 20s when George Lucas met him to discuss writing the novel adaptation of his forthcoming movie “Star Wars.”⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ The original contract called for an upfront payment of $7,500, until Lucas tossed Foster a 0.5% royalty on sales that the author, now 74, says added up to several times that initial payment. They arrived several times a year as the original 1977 blockbuster set box-office records and the novelization he wrote went on to sell more than one million copies.⠀ ⁠⠀ Then, in 2012, Disney bought Lucasfilm—and the royalty checks stopped.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Now, Foster and other authors from Disney-purchased franchises are in a heated dispute with Hollywood’s biggest empire, which they say refuses to pay royalties on book contracts it absorbed in the $4 billion Lucasfilm deal and other acquisitions. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ “Disney has acquired a house with a mortgage on it,” Foster said. “They want to keep living in the house. They don’t want to pay the mortgage.”⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ The amount of money at stake is minuscule to a company of Disney’s size but important to the writers seeking it. While Disney has mined Lucasfilm for new movies that have collectively grossed nearly $6 billion at the world-wide box office, these writers say the company has delayed dealing with their complaints and stiffed them on checks that rarely total a few thousand bucks apiece.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ “We are carefully reviewing whether any royalty payments may have been missed as a result of acquisition integration and will take appropriate remedial steps if that is the case,” a Disney spokesman said. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Read more at the link in our bio. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 📷: @caitlin_oh for @wsjphotos」12月24日 0時02分