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“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Makes All-Time Top 10 Earners List
“They looked at the stories, and they said, “We want to make something for the fans”…They decided they didn’t want to use those stories, they decided they were going to do their own thing…They weren’t that keen to have me involved anyway – but if I get in there, I’m just going to cause trouble, because they’re not going to do what I want them to do”.
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He said: “They wanted to do a retro movie”.
“These are my kids”. Different approaches, but many would argue that “The Force Awakens” was more successful than some of Lucas’ six films when it comes to character, pace, and story. “I love them, I created them, I’m very intimately involved in them”.
He added, trailing off: “I sold them to the white slavers that take these things and…”
Despite the soft reboot idea being a fairly true and understandable critique, the entire interview just seems like sour grapes on Lucas’ part; a kind of backwards postpartum depression.
He explained to United States chat show host Charlie Rose: “I’m 70”. It was for the Kennedy Center Honors and conducted prior to the premiere of the film.
Lucas apologized for the “very inappropriate analogy” he used in comparing Disney to “white slavers”, a statement he made during a lengthy interview with CBS newsman Charlie Rose.
The father of “Star Wars” also opened up about why he and Disney were split on their decisions for the franchise’s future. “Disney is doing an incredible job of taking care of and expanding the franchise”.
Responding to Rose quoting Lucas’ buddy Steven Spielberg, saying Star Wars changed Hollywood into the blockbuster-driven industry it is today, he slams the industry’s “lack of imagination” and “fear of creativity”.
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On Thursday, Disney announced that it had become the studio’s highest grossing film of all time in terms of domestic box office at US$629 million, surpassing Marvel superhero flick “The Avengers” from 2012, which took in US$623.4 million. It projects that the box office will have raked in 11.1 billion dollars through December 31, snapping the old mark of 10.919 billion in 2013.