71 year old Lucas sold the franchise to Disney just over three years ago for $4 billion, and told The Washington Post in a new interview that he had no involvement whatsoever with the seventh instalment, billed as the first of three sequel stories to the much-loved originals.
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“Han Solo was going to marry Leia, and you look back and say, ‘Should he be a cold-blooded killer?’ Lucas questioned”. And I said, ‘Yeah, he should be John Wayne.’ And when you’re John Wayne, you don’t shoot people [first]-you let them have the first shot. But it’s unlikely to put the matter to bed.
When the digitally enhanced version was re-released in 1997, it was Greedo who shot first, creating one of the most enduring and divisive debates among Star Wars fans.
Lucas also added that he he’s avoided the internet since around 2000, seemingly not even having email.
The article is worth a full read, as it also talks about Lucas’ plans to give the bulk of his fortune away to good causes. He doesn’t have a Facebook or Twitter account, and he doesn’t use email.
In a conversation published on Monday (November 30th), the former filmmaker admitted that he had no regrets about it. “There is no such thing as working over someone’s shoulder”, he said of the impossibility of a collaboration. And I got to say, anyone who says Luke Skywalker ought to be eliminated right off the bat.
“The reports have been so gratuitous that I tended to take them with a grain of salt”, wrote Myers, 20th Century Fox’s VP of domestic distribution, about what he was hearing from the production of the film. I’d make myself miserable.
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More than 2,500 actors between the ages of 18 and 32 have thrown their names in the hat for the part, which was originally played by Harrison Ford in the first Star Wars trilogy and the new film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
