I don't know the details more than anybody else, but I would point out Ron Gilbert's name appears explicitly on the third box, along with a company name. At th

I don't know the details more than anybody else, but I would point out Ron Gilbert's name appears explicitly on the third box, along with a company name. At the risk of reading some tea leaves, the style kinda reads to me like his name was a last-minute addition to the trailer, too. Anyhow, he may have more ownership than a mere employee of a company would. There's a lot of gradations of levels of "ownership". It perfectly possible to write a contract that gives Ron Gilbert the right to make any game he wants with the franchise with minimal oversight and forbids the original owner from making any use of the IP, while turning over a certain amount of money for the privilege, and that may satisfy him creatively, while also satisfying the money guys (since I imagine they're otherwise making a whopping hundreds and hundreds of dollars a year on the IP rights otherwise).