As for his objections to the new Star Wars film, Lucas echoes a point that a number of the film’s critics have raised, namely that Disney put out a safe movie that took no risks.
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In a statement issued Thursday, Lucas says he misspoke and used a “very inappropriate analogy”.
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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. During a wide-ranging and almost hour-long interview with Charlie Rose, Lucas lamented the fact that Disney ignored his script ideas and instead opted to go in a different and seemingly more fan-friendly direction. “I love them, I created them, I’m very intimately involved in them”.
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Propelled by the blockbusters “Jurassic World” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, US and Canadian ticket sales surpassed the high of US$10.9 billion set in 2013. A wide assortment of movies brought enthusiastic patrons to movie theaters across the USA throughout the year, giving the industry its biggest overall revenue in North American box office history, with a total of $11.1 billion projected for the calendar year through Thursday, December 31.
Lucas also said in the interview that Disney was not “that keen” to have him involved on the “Force Awakens”. “They decided they did not want to use these tales, they decided they have been going to do their very own thing …” “Every movie, I worked very hard to make them different”. And so I said, ‘OK, I will go my way, and I’ll let them go their way’.
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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”, Lucas said.
