Quote of the Day, George Lucas Is Upset That Star Wars No Longer Sucks edition.

This post of mine took longer than you might think to put up: it’s rather difficult to type when you’re only using two middle fingers.

Mr. Lucas appeared particularly unhappy with the direction the “Star Wars” franchise has taken since he sold the rights to it, along with Lucasfilm, his company, to Disney for $4 billion. He compared the sale to a breakup and a divorce.

The kind where one of the parties involved has to put out a restraining order… hey, I AM being measured in my response. Lucas literally called Disney ‘white slavers’ in this interview. As long as I don’t go more over-the-top than he did, I’m golden.

Moe Lane

PS: They’re gonna make their money back on this one film, George. and then do you know what they’re gonna do?  Do you, do you?  They’re eventually gonna give me an Original Theatrical Release of Star Wars, because they want my money.  And then that Original Theatrical Release is gonna become the standard that everybody uses. And do you know why that is? Because:

HAN.
SHOT.
FIRST.

25 thoughts on “Quote of the Day, George Lucas Is Upset That Star Wars No Longer Sucks edition.”

  2. “On Thursday, Mr. Lucas apologized for his “white slavers” remark and backtracked on his criticism of Disney.”
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    Looks like Disney legal served Lucas a big slice of STFU.
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    What a tw*t…whining about “artistic” values after he made three incoherent crap fests that almost sank the franchise.

    1. I have this crazy idea that, since *so much* of George’s folly was green-screen animation anyway, Disney *might* be able to release a “what George *should have made*” version ..
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      Mew

      1. They did. They went out of their way a few months ago to point out that they’d gone back to practical effects in a big way, and people saw that as a slap at Lucas.

        1. No, I mean … could they edit episodes 1-3, tighten things up, cut some of the trash, use CGI to add or *remove* some of the nonsense?
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          Mew

          1. Oh. I think they’d have to redo the dialog, and possibly replace the actors with ones who weren’t made of wood.

            The novelizations were significantly better, because whoever wrote them added all the stuff Lucas left out, like making clear in Episode III that the Emperor worked on Anakin for months or years, not just over the course of two conversations, to convert him.

  3. Mr. Lucas, I got this idea for a movie – it is fun, it entertains, it puts butts in seats, and –
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    it is not a metaphor for the Vietnam War, capitalism, homelessness, American domestic politics circa 1992, the drug war, post 9/11 terrorism, Palestine –
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    Or any other thing for which the writer, director, producer, and actors can signal their overweening virtue to the plebes.
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    I know – that sounds like crazy-talk, but it might just work!

    1. No, it does not involve pr0n.
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      Sheesh.
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      The idea is real simple. You take The Count of Monte Cristo and put it into space.
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      Should be fun.

        1. Just look at the mess Disney made of Lloyd Alexander’s “Prydain” .. do you *really* think they could handle Gully Foyle?
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          Mew

          1. No, nor Jizbella McQueen or Saul Dagenham either. I was thinking of a more generic “they” than just Disney.

          2. … I could see either a young Quentin Tarantino or *maybe* Robert Rodriguez handling it .. *maybe*.
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            The problem is the balance between having enough money to acquire the rights and do justice to the story, while *at the same time* having *too little* money to bring in big-name actors and directors, who would want to put too much of “their stamp” on it…
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            Mew

    2. Mr. Lucas, I got this idea for a movie – it is fun, it entertains, it puts butts in seats, and –
       
      That was in fact George Lucas’ original idea, despite what he says now about the movie’s Social Significance. I recall a radio ad a couple of days after Star Wars opened — back when they didn’t know whether it was going to be successful, and thought they needed to advertise it! — to the effect of “Never before has so much money and so much effort been put into making a blockbuster movie … just for fun!

  4. Of course Han shot first. He was a crook and a smuggler, he double-crossed a mob boss. Han Solo wasn’t on the right side of anything when Luke and Ben walked into the cantina. That Han Solo actually became a hero and rose well above what he had been is a great story of redemption. Han shooting first tells you what sort of man he was and the people he regularly dealt with; the Han you saw in “Empire” and “Jedi” tells you how far he came.
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    You want someone who was on the Dark Side* and rejected it? Han Solo.
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    *A pedestrian version of the Dark Side.

    1. Eh, I see Han as a not particularly bad guy, who made a few bad choices, and is stuck when those choices lead to more and more consequences. Killing someone before they kill you isn’t a “Dark Side” choice. Having bounty hunters on your tail because you had to dump a smuggled cargo is more than just bad luck.
      And I assume Ben hired Han because the crazy coincidences that are the workings of The Force found a guy with a fast ship, that needed money, and was a good enough guy to risk his life to save the princess in a crazy plan.

    2. But in Empire, we see Han and Leia being led to dinner with Vader – and as soon as the doors open up, Han is blasting away, or “shooting first”.

  6. I shall always carry a blackened sliver of bitterness toward George in the lump of anthracite cinder I use for a heart .. and a green whisker of envy toward our esteemed host.
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    Y’see, George’s folly, the stupidest trilogy possible, hit the theaters just when Junior Cat was ready for Star Wars .. after the first, I hoped the second would be better .. after the second, we went to the third just wanting the story to be over .. and *George couldn’t even do *THAT* right!.
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    If it weren’t for the video games, Lucas’s snit fit would have put Junior forever off the series.
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    The green envy is because, based on his posts, Moe’s kids are at (or almost at) the right age .. now that *competent* hands are in charge of the series again.
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    Mew

    1. This was the best part of the movie for me. It captured the magic of the first movie for my 6 year old.

  7. Mr. Lucas, thank you for providing a wonderful story that had my seven year old self staring at the movie screen in wide eyed wonder. Now kindly take the money that you have earned from Disney and use it to buy a crate of STFU.

    1. I was 23 and sat through it twice. With a nursing infant.
      There had never been anything as wonderful.

  8. Moe, do you think that Disney giving us the original theatrical releases (On DVD and Blu-Ray) will involve Disney’s legal team, a baseball bat and a dark alley? Or do you think it will be more peaceful than that?

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