George Lucas 'Not Happy' With New Star Wars Movies

The name George Lucas is inextricably linked with the franchise literally everyone knows – Star Wars.

There are many more prolific screenwriters and directors in the world, but it was Lucas, along with Steven Spielberg and James Cameron, who once changed the mass cinema.

George Lucas always planned to make three Star Wars trilogies.

He even began preparations for the last movies, but his family and other dreams came first, so the Star Wars creator decided to sell Lucasfilm in 2012. Disney became the new owner.

By that time, Lucas had managed to come up with many moments for future sequels and handed them over to the new owners, hoping that they would be used.

However, Disney took a completely different path, and the "sequel trilogy" does not reflect the original vision of George Lucas.

Lucas has never directly commented on new projects, but from brief comments made at various events and interviews, it can be concluded that the director disapproves of what is currently happening with the franchise.

The popular YouTube channel Star Wars Theory recently shared the following information:

"I know people who know [George Lucas] and they say he's not too happy with the stuff that been — kind of like the sequel trilogy stuff."

While this is not a first hand confession, the comment seems to be something Lucas really feels. Besides, George himself admitted at the Q&A session that he doesn't even really follow what's going on with the franchise:

"I kind of lost control of Star Wars, so it's going off in a different path than what I intended but the first six [Star Wars films] are very much mine and my philosophy."

In 2012, George Lucas faced the question of whether he wanted to spend the next ten years of his life on the set of Star Wars or devote more time to his family and his newborn daughter.

Lucas was 69 years old at the time, and would have been 80 by the time the final movie was made.

Lucas considered not selling Lucasfilm, but giving it to someone else to run. However, he was sure that he would still not be able to rest – as was the case during the filming of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

They were filmed by other directors, but Lucas was on the set every day and actually controlled the process.

Past experience has shown Lucas that it is better to sell out and have no legal way of influencing the future of the series, otherwise everything will go round in circles.

Sources: Star Wars Theory, The Mix