George Lucas

The actor starring in Zack Snyder’s ‘Rebel Moon’ reveals an awkward meeting with George Lucas.

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Hey! George Lucas wasn’t too thrilled with The Force Awakens, so why not bring him back on the franchise that he started?

That’s the idea behind a new petition that has launched on Change.org.

They want Lucas to replace Colin Trevorrow on Star Wars: Episode IX.

Bring back George Lucas for the Star Wars movies. Put the father of the franchise as director of Episode IX . We really want this, please.

It is noted they have no issues with Trevorrow, they just feel it’s only right for George Lucas to direct the last movie of the new Trilogy.

We have no problem with Colin Trevorrow , but he’s not the right guy to direct Star Wars Episode IX . George Lucas as director of Episode IX would be the perfect way to end this new trilogy and make an epic farewell between the Father of Star Wars and the whole universe of the galaxy far, far away ….

As of now, the petition has a tad over 1200 supporters (800 more than when Newsarama posted a story about it).

So what say you? Is The Force still strong with George Lucas?

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Update: Geoge Lucas issued the following statement following the interview:

“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. Disney is doing an incredible job of taking care of and expanding the franchise. I rarely go out with statements to clarify my feelings but I feel it is important to make it clear that I am thrilled that Disney has the franchise and is moving it in such exciting directions in film, television and the parks. Most of all I’m blown away with the record breaking blockbuster success of the new movie and am very proud of JJ and Kathy.” 

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I previously tweeted, when all the hype settles down, will Star Wars: The Force Awakens just be another Phantom Menace — or worse?

Even though the Star Wars fanboys and fangirls are eating it up, The Force Awakens is far from a perfect movie.

Now George Lucas agrees as well, though we can’t help but wonder if that’s a good thing (sorry, George, you really blew it with Jar Jar), but Lucas does offer some valid points while appearing on the Charlie Rose show.

“They wanted to do a retro movie. I don’t like that. Every movie I work very hard to make them completely different, with different planets, with different spaceships, make it new.”

I’ve had similar conversations with Star Wars fans regarding just those topics as well. The Force Awakens doesn’t really feature anything new when it comes to tech or spaceships, which is odd considering the amount of merchandising the movie features. Lucas also mentions it’s a retro movie, which I found to be another problem, in that The Force Awakens really didn’t drive the story forward. It actually left our movie reviewer scratching his head.

Lucas continues with mention of how Disney scrapped his storyline for Episodes 7-9, in favor of what some critics deem the most expensive piece of fan-fiction ever created.

“They looked at the stories, and they said, ‘We want to make something for the fans’….They decided they didn’t want to use those stories, they decided they were going to do their own thing….They weren’t that keen to have me involved anyway – but 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. And I don’t have the control to do that anymore, and all I would do is muck everything up. And so I said, ‘Okay, I will go my way, and I’ll let them go their way.’ ” 

Lucas also tackles how the industry as of late is playing it safe by making movies and sequels to things we’ve already seen instead of going the route he did with the original Star Wars, which was new at the time.

“Everybody went out and made spaceship movies and they were all horrible and they all lost tons of money. And you say, there’s more to it than that. You just can’t go out and do spaceships. Of course, the only way you could really do that [make money] is not take chances. Only do something that’s proven. You gotta remember, ‘Star Wars’ came from nowhere. ‘American Graffiti’ came from nowhere. There was nothing like it. Now, if you do anything that’s not a sequel or not a TV series or doesn’t look like one, they won’t do it!”

Update: Lucas also called the Star Wars movie his “kids” and  joked about selling Star Wars to the “white slavers” at Disney before cutting himself off:

“I sold them to the white slavers that takes these things, and [laughs]…” 

(via Movie Web and Indie Wire)

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It’s learned that for the first time, Star Wars will be without George Lucas’ storylines.

Lucas recently attended a premiere for his latest movie, Strange Magic, where he told Cinema Blend, “The ones that I sold to Disney, they came up to the decision that they didn’t really want to do those. So they made up their own. So it’s not the ones that I originally wrote [on screen in Star Wars: The Force Awakens].” 

Lucas wouldn’t state what his ideas for the new Star Wars movies were, and it’s also thought that screenwriter Michael Arndt was working on the Lucas version of Star Wars when he was let go, with Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan (Empire Strikes Back) taking over writing chores.

Another rumor has stated that Abrams and Kasdan rewrote the script to include more of the original characters, with Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.

It’s also possible Disney may have saved us all from the next Jar Jar.

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has a December 18, 2015 release directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and Abrams. Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams, and Bryan Burk are producing, and John Williams returns as the composer.

Actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Max von Sydow, Lupita Nyong’o and Gwendoline Christie will join the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker in the new film.

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