Re: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (12/16/16)
I agree that he should have never sold his franchise. But it wouldn't get anywhere [good] if he was still calling the shots.
He could have kept ownership but allow the writing and decision-making to be made by much more talented, more up-to-date, personnel.
George was a control freak to a point it caused the break up of his marriage and was obvious if you watch the behind the scenes Prequel Trilogy videos. Every aspect of those movies had to have his seal of approval. Movies that are successful, such as Star Wars, The Empire Strike Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, I could go on and on here but you get the point, are jointly made by many people and not just one man with complete control.
George had the unique opportunity from 1984-1997 to make Star
Wars movies but chose not too. Then when he decided to make the prequels he was not the man he was in 1974 and surrounded himself with "yes" men. Just watch the video of the film crew watching the "final cut" battle scenes at the end of The Phantom Menace. You can tell from everyone's faces that the "four endings" are a mess and even George says so but acknowledges that he cannot cut anything as it is too late and all "four" storylines now converge to this one point in the movie. So he reassures himself and calls it an "art film" and releases it as is and we now have The Phantom Menance as the premier return to the Star Wars Universe by George Lucas. No one had the nerve at any point to call him out on it during the filming process because he was "George Lucas" and it was a privilege to be working on a "Star Wars" movie.
So no the best thing that ever happened to Star Wars and Indiana Jones was that George sold Lucasfilms and now other talented people will have their shot at making Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies without George's input at all.
JJ and Kathleen Kennedy are talented people. They make successful movies. If they thought George brought "anything" to the table then they would have included him in on the making of the movie. But again, I am sure because of past behavior in wanting complete control over everything which is very hard to give up, George and company figured it was best that he stay out of it.
Only George knows if he truly misses the making of Star Wars films but like other members said he got 4 Billion Dollars so he could be laughing all the way to the bank.
I say go buy an island, turn it into Naboo and hire the actor who played Jar Jar full time to follow you around saying "Wesa so Happy!" LOL
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I agree wholeheartedly with all of this.
