Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012 for a colossal $4 billion (£2.7 billion) and put director JJ Abrams in the saddle, with George giving up the reins. “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”, his statement read to The Hollywood Reporter. And while most of his melancholy is understandable – after all, he’s compared the flicks to kids he lost in a divorce – his recent remarks to Charlie Rose about selling off the rights to “the white slavers” (a.k.a. new “Star Wars” owners Disney) were a bit head-scratching and unfortunate.
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Lucas also added that he has found it hard to let go of the Star Wars franchise. He said he had worked hard to create movies in the series that were distinct from one another.
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“So it wasn’t like they were taken away from me… and they felt they knew… they wanted to do a retro movie. I made them completely different – different planets, different spaceships to make it new”.
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When he first saw Star Wars: The Force Awakens, George Lucas’ official statement was that he thought the fans would like it. While that didn’t exactly sound like he himself was enthused, it wasn’t out-and-out shade.
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Most of Lucas’s interview with Rose had been about his own uneven steps in developing a new relationship with his “Star Wars” legacy, since putting it in another company’s hands.
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“White slavery” has a very specific connotations of Europeans becoming enslaved by non-Europeans and women sold into sex slavery. The director said he tried to realize that it was healthier for him to move on with his life and not look back. It does seem like Lucas was simply trying to make a joke in that interview – albeit one that came out extremely awkwardly, assisted by a deeply unfortunate choice of words. The second rule – you don’t go over to their house and drive by to see what they’re doing… you just say no, gone, history, I’m moving forward.
