With today’s shocking announcement that The Walt Disney Company has purchased Lucasfilm, there are many questions from fans.  Disney had a phone call to their investors earlier today, and here’s what we know so far.

The deal, as it stands, mostly involves future Star Wars content, not the existing films.

Apparently, Lucas wrote a treatment for Episodes VII-IX, and this was what caused Disney to make the purchase. While Lucas will not actually write or direct the films, it’s his outline which will guide the films.

All Lucasfilm properties are included.

That’s right, Disney now also owns Indiana Jones, Willow and Red Tails. Don’t expect Indiana Jones 5, however. Indiana Jones was mentioned by name during the investment call as being a difficult proposition moving forward - I’d guess that Disney, at this time, doesn’t wish to work through the red tape with Paramount to get another film made. Plus, you know, Harrison Ford’s getting up there in age.

Existing Licensing Deals remain as is, for now.

Similar to how the Disney comics remained with BOOM! Studios for the remainder of their contract, the Star Wars franchise remains with Dark Horse Comics. For now. Here’s hoping this doesn’t lead to the really great sounding Star Wars comic from Brian Wood to get cancelled early…or, if it does end up great, Marvel picks up where Dark Horse leaves off.

Don’t hold your breath on the “Original Original Trilogy”.

While I think that a blu-ray release of the original cuts of A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi would be the first step towards making fans super happy with the Disney buy out, apparently we shouldn’t expect it any time soon. I see it as a no brainer, but as they’d have to work things out legally with 20th Century Fox and get Lucas’s approval (as he will continue to oversee Lucasfilm, even as retired), this could take a while.

All work on LucasArts Games remains the same, for now.

That means the ultra impressive looking Star Wars: 1313 is still in development. Again, for now. Things could change as LucasArts is now owned by Disney, who has their own video game company - Disney Interactive. I get the feeling that this deal came as a surprise to many of the departments under Lucasfilm.

Industrial Light and Magic and Skywalker Sound remain autonomous.

While Lucasfilm certainly built much of their fortune on the back of the work of ILM and Skywalker Sound, while Disney will technically own each, they will be allowed to continue to work on their own projects for any company or studio.

Again - the only new thing really confirmed at this time is Star Wars: Episode VII, set for release in 2015.  That summer now looms huge, with the potential release of The Avengers 2 and Justice League that same summer.

I remain cautiously optimistic here, but as always, we cannot judge until we have actual new content to view.