What if Lucasfilm was acquired by Fox in 2012?

On October 30th, 2012, The Walt Disney Company announced a deal to acquire Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4.05 billion, with approximately half in cash and half in shares of Disney stock.

Under the deal, Disney acquired ownership of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Lucasfilm's operating businesses in live-action film production, consumer products, video games, animation, visual effects and audio post-production.

In this alternate reality, the company ended up acquired instead by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation (later 21st Century Fox), the parent company of Lucasfilm's longtime distribution partner 20th Century Fox, by a similar amount, allowing the studio to keep distributing future entries in the Star Wars series as well as future entries in the Indiana Jones series, taking over from Paramount Pictures.

This theory is interconnected to What if Comcast acquired The Walt Disney Company back in 2004?, meaning that Disney didn't acquire Fox in this reality.

List of changes

 * The acquisition made Lucasfilm's franchises as Fox's most profitable IPs, surpassing Fox's own franchises such as Planet of the Apes, Die Hard, Alien, Predator, Home Alone, The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Simpsons.
 * The Star Wars sequel trilogy now focuses on a take on Jacen and Jaina Solo, although having Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley playing them like how they played Kylo Ren and Rey.
 * The Sequel Trilogy would be supervised by rather than  with George Lucas remaining as a creative consultant, although with limited powers to avoid the events that contributed for the Prequel Trilogy's mixed reviews.
 * The Legends continuity would still be separate, but more elements from it are incorporated to the main trilogy.
 * Theme park attractions based on Star Wars and Indiana Jones would move from Disney Parks to Universal Studios due to Fox's brand licensing agreement with NBCUniversal.
 * Live-action television shows would air on FX while family-friendly animated television shows would still air on Cartoon Network.
 * Seeing the potential of LucasArts, Fox opted to keep the studio active in order to take advantage of its resources, keeping future Star Wars games developed and published in-house, being a subsidiary of the newly-created /20th Century Fox Interactive/, also allowing future games based on Fox's IPs to be developed and published in-house.
 * Fox would bring back several of LucasArts' old video game IPs, including Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island.
 * A The Simpsons television movie parodying the series would be produced.
 * The reboot of Battlefront would have a story mode set between the two trilogies and involves a small Rene battalion heading to free the planet of Xenosyth from the Empire's grasp.
 * Several media in the Star Wars franchise would be closely connected to make the Star Wars universe seem more compact.

The Sequel Trilogy

 * /Star Wars: Rise of the Solos/ (2015)
 * /Star Wars: Fall of the Jedi/ (2017)
 * /Star Wars: The Final Battle/ (2019)

Others

 * /Rogue One: A Star Wars Story/ (2016)
 * /Smugglers: A Star Wars Story/ (2018)

Indiana Jones

 * /Indiana Jones and the Lost Island/ (2017)

Live-action

 * /Tales of Indiana Jones/ (, 2018-present)
 * /Age of the Empire: A Star Wars Story/ (FX, 2018-present)
 * /The Mandalorian/ (FX, 2019-present)

Animated

 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Cartoon Network, 2008-2014, 2020)
 * /Star Wars Detours/ (Fox, 2014-present)
 * /Star Wars Rebels/ (Cartoon Network, 2014-2018)
 * /The Simpsons: Bart Wars/ (Fox, 2015)
 * Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures (Cartoon Network, 2016-2017)
 * /Star Wars Resistance/ (Cartoon Network, 2018-present)

Comics

 * /Star Wars Aftermath/ (Boom! Studios, 2014-present)
 * /Indiana Jones: The Myth/ (Boom! Studios, 2015-present)
 * /Monkey Island Stories/ (Boom! Studios, 2016-present)

Video games

 * /Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail/ (2013)
 * /Maniac Mansion/ (2015)
 * /Star Wars Battlefront/ (2015)
 * /Guybrush of Monkey Island/ (2016)
 * /Star Wars Battlefront II/ (2017)
 * /Star Wars: The Force Unleashed III/ (2018)
 * /Return to Monkey Island/ (2018)
 * /Escape From Maniac Mansion/ (2019)
 * Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019)
 * [still Star Wars, theme] (2020)