“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” also overtook “Frozen” (time to, ahem, let it go…) at the worldwide box office, to become the eighth biggest-grossing film of all-time.
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Claiming that he doesn’t like retro movie, Lucas said that every movie he makes, he works very hard to make it different as he likes making them completely different with new planets and spaceships.
“I sold them to the white slavers that take these things, and…” he added with a laugh, leaving the sentence incomplete.
“Star Wars” creator George Lucas has apologised for referring to Disney as “white slavers” in an interview, saying he “misspoke and used a very inappropriate analogy”.
“They decided they didn’t want to use those stories, they decided they were going to do their own thing. I don’t like that”, Lucas said, likening the sale to a painful break-up and complaining that the franchise had become too commercial.
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” continues to break global box office records becoming the most successful film of 2015, bringing in the highest New Year’s Day total, while toppling “Titanic’s” domestic box office record and becoming the top grossing Disney film of all time.
“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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My interview with Kennedy Center Honoree, George Lucas. He also criticized the producers and writers of Star Wars: The Force Awakens for their decision to emphasize the more familiar facets of the original trilogy, films which he said “had issues”. “I rarely go out with statements to clarify my feelings yet I feel it is noteworthy to make it clear in that I am thrilled in that Disney has the franchise and is moving it in such thrilling directions in film, television and the parks”.
