Disney says that the company did not ask for a formal NDA, but rather sent an emailed request for confidentiality around the discussions. According to Disney, their last correspondence was in March, asking for a meeting, and the company did not hear back. Disney hasn’t paid Foster a dime on any of the Alien books, he says.ĭisney says that it engaged with Foster and his agent for more than a year over the Alien books - and that this is the first they’ve heard about the Star Wars novelizations as a point of contention. Last year, Disney bought 20th Century Fox, acquiring the rights to some other novelizations by Foster: Alien, Aliens, and Alien 3. Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012 according to Foster, Disney stopped paying him royalties. He also published a sequel to Star Wars, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye.
But I’m still here, and I am still entitled to what you owe me.”įoster ghost-wrote the novelization of Star Wars: A New Hope, under the byline of George Lucas it was published in 1976 before the movie’s release. Ignore requests and inquiries hoping the petitioner will simply go away. I know this is what gargantuan corporations often do. You continue to ignore my legal representatives. “You continue to ignore queries from SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
“You continue to ignore requests from my agents,” Foster wrote in a letter published by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. According to Foster, Disney has also asked him to sign a non-disclosure agreement before the company will speak with him. Alan Dean Foster, author of several Star Wars novelizations, says Disney hasn’t paid him his royalties.
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