my hopes for this are fading after reading this article and learning that Lucas still had/has some influence and input
How Disney Bought Lucasfilm-and Its Plans for 'Star Wars' - Businessweek
""I was pulling away, and I said, 'Well, I've got to build this company up so it functions without me, and we need to do something to make it attractive.' So I said, 'Well, let's just do these movies.'?"
Lucas and Kennedy hired screenwriter Michael Arndt, who won an Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine, to begin work on the script for Episode VII. They enlisted Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote the screenplays for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, to act as a consultant. Lucas started talking to members of the original Star Wars cast, such as Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford, about appearing in the films. "
"At first Lucas wouldn't even turn over his rough sketches of the next three Star Wars films. When Disney executives asked to see them, he assured them they would be great and said they should just trust him. "Ultimately you have to say, 'Look, I know what I'm doing. Buying my stories is part of what the deal is.' I've worked at this for 40 years, and I've been pretty successful,"
"Once Lucas got assurances from Disney in writing about the broad outlines of the deal, he agreed to turn over the treatments-but insisted they could only be read by Iger, Horn, and Kevin Mayer, Disney's executive vice president for corporate strategy. "We promised," says Iger. "We had to sign an agreement."
When Iger finally got a look at the treatments, he was elated. "We thought from a storytelling perspective they had a lot of potential," he says."