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George Lucas splits with ‘Star Wars’ after 38 years, cites irreconcilable differences
“Star Wars” creator and original director George Lucas had little involvement with the forthcoming “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” but he recently confirmed it to be his last film with the franchise.
“The issue was ultimately, they looked at the stories and they said, ‘We want to make something for the fans,'” Lucas tells Charlie Rose on “CBS This Morning.” “People don’t actually realize it’s actually a soap opera and it’s all about family problems — it’s not about spaceships.”
After selling his Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012, the creator states that he has officially ended his relationship with the franchise that made him a household name.
He continues, “So they decided they didn’t want to use those stories, they decided they were going to do their own thing so I decided, ‘fine…. I’ll go my way and I let them go their way.'”
The famous creator says that he will have absolutely nothing to do with the installments to follow. Release dates for “Episode VIII” and “Episode IX” have been announced for 2017 and 2019, respectively.
Lucas further explains in an interview with Vanity Fair why he decided to back off from “Episode VII: The Force Awakens.”
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“You go to make a movie and all you do is get criticized,” he says. “People try to make decisions about what you’re going to do before you do it. It’s not much fun. You can’t experiment. You have to do it a certain way.”
Although the “Star Wars” films have strayed away from Lucas’ original vision, the filmmaker says that he has other stories on the horizon. “I will be directing movies, but not movies generally that will be shown anywhere,” Lucas says.