He says no, but the Star Wars creator seemed slightly bitter about his space opera in an interview with Charlie Rose at the Skywalker Ranch that aired over Christmas but is just starting to make its way around the Internet.
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“I have been working with Disney for 40 years and chose them as the custodians of Star Wars because of my great respect for the company and Bob Iger’s leadership”, said Lucas.
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In the statement, Lucas says Disney is moving the franchise in exciting directions. Disney is doing an incredible job of taking care of and expanding the franchise.
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“I sold them to the white slavers who takes these things and…”
In the interview, Lucas likened Disney’s purchase of the franchise to a “break up”. “All the Star Wars films”, Lucas said. “I made them completely different – different planets, different spaceships to make it new”.
“I sold them to the white slavers that takes these things, and…,”Lucas said before laughing and deciding it better not to finish”. “They weren’t that keen to have me involved anyway”, said Lucas.
He sold his company, Lucasfilm, to the Walt Disney Co.in 2012 for $4.06 billion, and the studio charged ahead in developing “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” with director J.J. Abrams and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy.
The massive success of Star Wars: The Force Awakens helped make 2015 the highest-earning year in North American box office history, according to Rentrak. At the time, Lucas had some ideas for how “Episode VII” could be told.
The comments predictably set off furious chatter on the Internet, with some defending “Star Wars” founding father and his right to criticize his successors, while others labeled him as ungrateful and out of bounds for biting the hand that fed him a multi-billion-dollar fortune.
“I looked at the future, I looked at the fact that I was going to have a baby, I looked at the fact that I was married, and I looked at the fact that I wanted to build a museum, and I looked at the fact that I wanted to make experimental films”.
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“But at the same time if I get in there, I’m just gonna cause trouble, because they’re not gonna do what I want them to do”.
