Anyone one of the new Star Wars movie, had it remained under Lucas, would have made that much throughout the course of its run.
$4 billion dollars is chump change for a lucrative movie franchise. Also Lucas threw in Indiana Jones, another lucrative franchise.
If Lucas would have created his own studio it would be worth way more than $4 billion.
I heard the reason Lucas even made the sale in the first place was so he’d essentially buy his way out of the tax hikes that Obama was going to pull after 2012 by gutting the Bush era tax cuts, the same ones Lucas advocated getting rid of himself and stating that “corporations shouldn’t own government.”
https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2013/01/02/michelle-malkin-n1476817
http://www.corson.org/archives/economics/E2012_14.htm
Yeah, that definitely had me losing respect for Lucas there, followed by even more loss of respect when hearing some comments where he supported Occupy Wall Street of all things, not to mention learning he not only based the Ewoks on the Vietcong and the Empire on America with the clear intention of having his audience root for the VC in a form of trickery (already bad enough in itself), but he apparently based the Rebel Alliance on the VC as well, as early as 1973. Oh, and also his implication that Soviet filmmaking was better than American filmmaking because he can do whatever he wants so long as he doesn’t insult dear leader, and his implying that Robespierre’s France was better than King Louis XVI’s France or Napoleon’s France.
Yeah, all I can say to Lucas is, screw him, I have zero sympathy for his plight, and I still blame him for how Disney ruined Star Wars because of that deal. People might exonerate Lucas due to the crap Disney did to the franchise with Rebels, the Sequel Trilogy, and all of that (heck, the only good stuff Disney did with the franchise was that SCAR story in the Marvel Comics as well as Rogue One), but I won’t, knowing that he’s the reason Disney even is doing that stuff, having mediated the deal in the first place.