General / Off-Topic George Lucas : "I sold Star Wars, to slave traders "
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Oh, he sold it to the Empire! As long as he didn't sell it to Patreus...
Surely he meant he sold it to Jawas?
The apology of George Lucas --- http://deadline.com/2015/12/george-lucas-white-slavers-disney-charlie-rose-interview-1201674262/
Well that line clearly was in poor taste, but that's hard to avoid when you make a joke about figuratively selling your children. I think his dislike for making a "retro movie" is understandable; when these other people can recapture the magic from his original Star Wars movie and he himself couldn't...
I wouldn't have objected to him making a "modern" movie, what I objected to was him making a movie solely for the purpose of selling toys to 5 year olds. There's no other reason for the existence of Jar...I can't even finish that stupid name.
Yeah, those movies were nothing but a jar of binks.
It was obvious that he'd have to apologise to DisneyCorps(tm). He was making a joke referencing a practice within the Star Wars universe. Everyone at Disney just buys and sells movies. Nobody there has actually watched any of his movies to get the reference.
I did enjoy the delicious way he was mixing his metaphors within that You Tube clip. First he was referring to the movies as a wife he was divorcing, and then he referred to them as his children <boggle>. He should have just stuck to the latter metaphor. As his child, Star Wars should be given the freedom to do what it wants when it's old enough, but the child should also listen to the advice of their father.
I knew that Lucas had envisioned episodes 7,8, and 9. I assumed that these current movies were going to use his plots. If they are going to deviate from Lucas' ideas so greatly I just wonder if those original ideas are going to be available elsewhere, maybe in book form?
I did enjoy the delicious way he was mixing his metaphors within that You Tube clip. First he was referring to the movies as a wife he was divorcing, and then he referred to them as his children <boggle>. He should have just stuck to the latter metaphor. As his child, Star Wars should be given the freedom to do what it wants when it's old enough, but the child should also listen to the advice of their father.
I knew that Lucas had envisioned episodes 7,8, and 9. I assumed that these current movies were going to use his plots. If they are going to deviate from Lucas' ideas so greatly I just wonder if those original ideas are going to be available elsewhere, maybe in book form?
His own fault that he sold it. I still wonder why the LucasFilm logo was presented instead of Disney. Other, important parts of the company were broken down long time ago (LucasArts).
Now it has become a JJ Abrams Alternate Timeline movie, but after he got so much venom after ST11, this time it turned out surprisingly good.
Now it has become a JJ Abrams Alternate Timeline movie, but after he got so much venom after ST11, this time it turned out surprisingly good.