In 1977, George Lucas introduced “Star Wars” to the world. It was a work of art, that reignited a form of science fiction that hadn’t been seen since “Star Trek” was canceled in 1969.

“A New Hope,” which was the first “Star Wars” film to grace American cinema, was labeled as “Episode 4,” and was a classic underdog story. It introduced characters such as, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader. These characters quickly became household names.

Arguably, the best film in the series came next, “The Empire Strikes Back.” It introduced new household names like Yoda, Lando Calrissian and Boba Fett. It’s worth noting that Irvin Kershner directed “Empire,” and not George Lucas.

The film saw Vader bringing his powerful empire against Skywalker and his rebels, and quite readily out maneuvered them.

The trilogy ended with “Return of the Jedi.” Although the film ends with the glorious defeat of the evil empire, it was also the beginning of George Lucas’ descent into madness.

That film had one fatal flaw. His name was Wicket. Wicket is an Ewok, and Ewoks moved “Star Wars” away from its gritty and violent atmosphere, and turned the rebels heroic struggle for independence and freedom into a kids movie.

Lucas’ descent progressed heavily as he released three abominations of “Star Wars’” former glory. Episodes One, Two and Three were Lucas’ vision of the franchise’s origin, and they were awful.

Besides the makeover Lucas gave to “Star Wars’” cherished backstory, he also introduced another fatal flaw into the prequel-trilogy that began with “The Phantom Menace”, Jar Jar Binks.

Binks was more childish than his Ewok predecessors, and far more obnoxious and intrusive.

Lucas’ vision for the long-anticipated character of Anakin Skywalker, was a child who was way too “happy-go-lucky” to be a slave headed toward his inevitable destiny as a sith lord, aka dark jedi.

The film was full of silly one-liners from Skywalker and Binks that would set the tone of the garbage to come.

“Now this is podracing” makes every loyal fan of “Star Wars” want to vomit in disgust. Skywalker’s script was a failure on Lucas’ part who had 20 years to figure him out.

With the release of “Attack of the Clones” and “Revenge of the Sith,” Lucas seemed to go out of his way to screw up something that could have easily been classic filmmaking. The introduction of the clone wars, which had been a part of “Star Wars” history since Luke Skywalker first met Obi-Wan Kenobi, was structured horribly and seemed last minute.

Both films had people hating Anakin Skywalker, not because he was evil, but because he was annoying and people were mad at George Lucas for ruining their childhood.

There is a ray of hope.

Lucas isn’t dead and buried, but his oversight of “Star Wars” is. Thankfully, Disney recently purchased Lucasarts for $4.1 billion, and announced the release of another trilogy starting with “Episode 7” in 2015.

In 1983, “Star Wars” ended on a high note with “Return of the Jedi,” despite the incursions of the Ewoks. Lucas took that glory and burned it to the ground with his re-imagined prequel trilogy.

The last memory we have of “Star Wars” is a woman dying while birthing Luke and Leia, because she “lost the will to live.” Lucas deserves to be slapped for punishing the world with his senile visions.

Disney, however, is fresh off of “The Avengers,” which was well constructed and made over $1.5 billion worldwide.

Although we shouldn’t hope for an “Avengers” style film, we can hope for greatness.

Lawrence Kasdan, Michael Arndt and Simon Kinberg have reportedly signed on to write screenplays for the new Disney-released “Star Wars” sequel trilogy.

Arndt is the screenwriter responsible for “Little Miss Sunshine” and “Toy Story 3.”

Kinberg is hit and miss with his work; he wrote garbage like “Jumper”, but he also wrote “X-Men: First Class”, which is epic.

Kasdan alone gives fanboys a reason to cheer. Kasdan wrote “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi”.

Disney has the resources, talent and ability to take on this fallen hero called “Star Wars.”

Disney has the challenge of living up to the original trilogy, but it has the advantage of building off a trilogy that only leaves room for improvement. Although it will be difficult, Disney can only do better than George Lucas.