He says, “when you’re John Wayne, you don’t shoot people-you let them have the first shot”. When Disneyland finally brings us a fully operational and completed Star Wars Land, reflecting the original trilogy, the prequels, and all the sequels, will it still look like something from George Lucas?
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“Star Wars” creator George Lucas is borrowing a page from Yoda, living in seclusion far, far away from the franchise he sold to Disney three years ago. “I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Greedo is the one who shot first, but everyone wanted to think that Han shot first”, he said.
“There is no such thing as working over someone’s shoulder”, Lucas said. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is set to open in theaters in December and kids at Disneyland are riding Star Tours, getting Wookie hugs, and coming face to face with Darth Vader.
“When you look at Star Wars and Empire, they are very different lightsaber battles, but for me they felt more powerful because they were not quite as slick”.
For what it’s worth, Ford dismissed the who-shot-first controversy altogether during a 2014 Reddit AMA: “I don’t know and I don’t care”. I’d make myself miserable.
“I gotta go to the wedding”, he said. “It’s a mythological reality that we hope our society pays attention to”. “It would probably ruin a vision – (new director J.J. Abrams) has a vision, and it’s his vision”. He wouldn’t, and he isn’t, and the scene was just better as it was. “Because I was thinking mythologically – should he be a cowboy, should he be John Wayne?”. And it seems like the filmmaker has been really honest in his public statements recently, so if they screen it for him I’m hoping we’d get his uncensored opinion. But Lucas won’t hear it, as he told the Post he’s “assiduously avoided the Internet since 2000” – after the first prequel “The Phantom Menace” came out – “no Facebook, no Twitter, no e-mail even”.
This is also obvious when looking at how Lucas changed the scene when he did his special edition.
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Basically, Kennedy defined his role as being available to answer any “Star Wars”-related questions which may arise in order to make sure items made sense within the constructs of the universe”.
