I would guess Lucas would die early from the overwork needed to run the franchise.
I can see something like this happening if this happens.
Elon Musk buys the Star Wars from the heirs of Lucas and pays well over twice its value as Musk claims to be a huge Star Wars fan. (However, Musk often displays a remarkable ignorance of the series, confusing details in it with details from Star Trek, The Thunderbirds, the Princess Bride, The Matrix, Ayn Rand Wikipedia entries, etc.) Musk says Star Wars also will be the perfect tie-in to popularize his
nightmarish fantasies plans for saving humanity colonizing Mars via his SpaceX. (Musk fails to mention, let alone understand, that one of the reason earth faces an environmental crises are environmentally destructive companies like SpaceX and selfish billionaires.)
On the day the deal is to close at Lucas Ranch, Musk shows up carrying a new black board and a toilet, which he apparently means to symbolize that he's starting with a clean slate and there's going to a lot new "stuff" coming from him.
Musk, using his famous super-genius, then orders what was Lucas Films (soon to be renamed X) to produce a whole series of new Star War films where Jar Jar Binks is the protagonist. Binks is on a mission to move all life from the current galaxie to a new galaxie far, far away. Binks says he needs to do this because life in this galaxy has run out of living space--the current galaxy has been doomed by a destructive virus that resembles a six-pointed snowflake and causes the minds of those infected to be alert and aware of other life. (It also causes those infected to darken in color.) Most regular living creatures can be infected this virus and, when infected, they become empathetic and non-violent. Consequently, Binks has a created clone army of resistant moon-faced super-geniuses, inculcated by social media. These clones are to transport those living in the parts of the galaxy where virus hasn't yet reached, which glow red, to the new galaxie. The clones will also go to areas of the of galaxie where the virus is endemic, and destroy all life in the infected zones to prevent the virus from spreading. The virus makes these areas glow blue.
Musk begins production of the three films simultaneously, claiming he will apply his engineering knowledge to create a new way of producing films. He calls this X. Musk says X will revolutionize fllm-making cut costs by. Rational people soon point out these will be the most eXpensive X (rated) films ever made.
Musk then immediately fires 80% of the production crew and cast from Lucas Films. The few old stars who he hasn't fired refuse to appear in the films and quit. Consequently, Musk hires such conservative stars as James Woods, Kevin Sorbo, Victoria Jackson, RoseAnne Barr, Stacey Dash, and Cha-Chi. Exhibitors immediately complain.
Variety reports that Musk has ordered the films to adopt the style of his favorite film maker Leni Reifenstahl. Tucker Carlson praises the uniforms uniforms worn by Jar Jar Binks's clone army outfits. Elle notes the uniforms are based on Hugo Boss drawings f from the 1930s.
Various groups and spokes people note that the extermination of a certain group people who have a six point figure in them by an army dressed in Hugo Boss clothes has some unsettling parallel. The EU raises issues about its release in the EU. Israel's reaction is stronger, though they deny the rumors of Musk being any hit list.
Actors who worked on the original star wars films are also critical. Ian McDiarmid said he could never imagine, let alone play, a character as evil as Musk. James Earl Jones and Mark Hammill publicly mock Musk saying the Farce is wih him. Fan pre-emptively promise to boycott the film. Musk call Star War fans who complain and threaten to boycott "shrill" and accuses them of being against artistic freedom. He calls Hamill a has been, and mocks the late Carrie Fisker, who Musk apparently doen't know is dead, as being a crack head.
Variety predicts the films to be bomb so big that it'll make Howard the Duck look like Gone with the Wind. All major exhibitors and streaming services pull out after HBO tentatively agrees to show the series and loses 25% of it subscribers in the following week. Musk finally gets a distribution deal lined up for the films series: they are made direct to cable on the One American News Network. This happens after ONN was booted off 2/3 of its cable systems. Blackboard and toilet memes abound.
However, before the films are anywhere near completed, what many now call a miracle occurs.
Musk has pressured his underlings at SpaceX to hurry the launch schedule of the giant Starship rocket. After several aborted launch attempts the Starship finally gets in the air on a cloudy day in April. Musk is in the audience for this.
Things quickly get weird.
The rocket does take-off but after about 10 second in the air, as it passes through a cloud, the rocket topples from it trajectory as if a giant hand had pushed it. Strange static is heard on the launchsite's audio net. To many it sounds like a familiar woman's voice saying "You're not going to Mars, you're going straight to hell!" The rocket then crashes to earth, landing right where Musk was watching the launch. Musk, along with his closest henches, is incinerated.
As millions watch and listen to recording of the launch, a belief goes viral over the internet: The spirit of Carrie Fisher reach out from the afterworld and killed Musk to save Star Wars. Millions independently report the static sounded like Fisher voice. Over the following weeks various computer-analyses of the recordings find remarkable similarities between the static and Fisher's voice. Similarly millions note that Fisher's profile can be seen formed by some of the clouds and one bank of clouds look like that white thing she wore in a New Hope or whatever the real first Star Wars is called.
After Musk's death there are several years of uncertainty as to who owns the rights to Star Wars films. They finally end up with his estranged daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson, some sort academic dude from Utah, and a Canadian bureaucrat. With scripts by AH's own
@Worffan101 and
@Doctor What, the Star Wars franchise is revitalized and restored to its greatness.
Also, as a result of the events leading to the death of Musk, a new religion, is founded. It's called Carrying On in honor of idea that Carrie Fisher's spirit carried on beyond death. Among its tenets are
(1) Caring for your home planet and its inhabitants so some asshole with a giant spaceship doesn't destroy it in the name of a silly, power-mad fantasy and
(2) Not exploiting pop culture icons for ill-conceived, self-serving goals.
The highest achievement in Carrying On is felt to be being one with the spirit of Carrie Fisher, which is called Getting Leiaed.
Conversely, avaricious, ignorant people, such as Musk ITTL, who violate the tenets of Carrying On are said to be on the Dork Side.
Carrying On spreads across the planet. World unity is soon achieved. The Earth is saved and restored to an environmental paradise. Eventually, Mars is visited, but only after an environmentally sound way is found to make the journey--and Mar is never terra-formed, as the idea is on the Dork Side.
