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It sounds like Bay Area filmmaker, George Lucas, is giving a thumbs down to the new Stars Wars film. Lucas recently shared some brief, civil thoughts on The Force Awakens, calling it “very much the kind of movie” fans have been looking for, but what does that mean, exactly?

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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.


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With the proximity of the film’s release and the game’s release, the negation of plans for a “Star Wars: Episode VII” DLC in “Star Wars Battlefront” may also be a shock to gamers, as per Game Rant. And what, George?! Finish that sentence!


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EA broke the news that DLC “for this release of Star Wars Battlefront” will tie into the original trilogy. Lucas agrees with that assessment, complaining that J.J.

He says the people who took over the franchise wanted to create a retro movie, which he opposed. I don’t like that. Gone! History! I’m moving forward.’ Because every time you do…something like that, you’re opening the wound again, and it just makes it harder for you. I made them completely different – different planets, different spaceships to make it new. “The second rule, you don’t go over to their house and drive by to see what they’re doing. I sold them to the white slavers that take these things, and…” They show plenty of action and the various characters involved in the movies, without spoiling the plot. And I don’t have the control to do that anymore, and all I would do is muck everything up.

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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.

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