Editing Star Wars sources and analogues (section)

====The original films' influence on the franchise after Disney buys Lucasfilm====
Following the sale of Lucasfilm to [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]], and the release of the 2015 film ''[[Star Wars: The Force Awakens]]'', a Whatculture.com writer noticed the film bore many parallels and similar plot beats to ''A New Hope''.<ref name="Whatculture.com">{{cite web|url=http://whatculture.com/film/star-wars-the-force-awakens-10-ways-its-a-remake-of-a-new-hope |title=Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 10 Ways It's A Remake Of A New Hope |publisher=Whatculture.com |date=December 18, 2015 |access-date=June 30, 2022}}</ref> [[McGill University]] computer science professor Derek Ruths ran an algorithm that found that, while it was not a one to one translation (for instance, Rey and Kylo Ren did not mirror Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader), the script mirrored ''A New Hope'' a lot in the way that each film's characters were grouped.<ref name="McFarland">{{cite magazine|last=McFarland |first=Kevin |url=https://www.wired.com/2016/03/mapping-star-wars-force-awakens-characters/ |title=The Force Awakens and A New Hope Are More Similar Than You Think |magazine=Wired |date=March 4, 2016 |access-date=June 30, 2022}}</ref>