In 2012, George Lucas sold Lucasfilm, which included the keys to the Star Wars franchise, to The Walt Disney Company for $4 billion. Now, while the newest installment in the series, The Force Awakens, continues to break box office records, Lucas gave an interview to Charlie Rose that suggests he isn’t too thrilled with the decisions Disney has been making for his beloved franchise.
The discussion on the matter started off very benign, with Lucas likening the Star Wars films to his children, saying, “These are my kids. All the Star Wars films. I love them, I created them, I’m very intimately involved in them.” It’s how Lucas continued that is raising some eyebrows in Hollywood. He continued, “And I sold them to the white slavers that take these things and.…” Lucas doesn’t finish his thoughts on that specific line of thinking, but he does criticize Disney’s decision to make The Force Awakens feel like a film from the original trilogy. In the interview, he states, “They wanted to do a retro movie. I don’t like that. Every movie, I worked very hard to make them different, make them completely different with different planets, different spaceships, to make it new. كيف تلعب بلاك جاك ”
According to the New York Times,
Still, he said he had begun working on another “Star Wars” film before the sale, including preparing story treatments and “working with a writer.” But, he said, Disney was not “that keen to have me involved. كازينو 888 ”
“They decided they didn’t want to use those stories,” he said. “They decided they were going to do their own thing. اربح المال من الالعاب So I decided, ‘Fine.’ ”
The complete interview with Charlie Rose is available via the New York Times.
News source: New York Times
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