Lucas furious over Star Wars sequel trilogy
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That's Marcia Lucas - George's ex:
https://www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-marcia-lucas-furious-sequels-rey
Lucas slams Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams, arguing "they don't have a clue about Star Wars" and criticizing the decision to kill off franchise icons Han Solo and Luke Skywalker.
"They don't get it," Lucas writes. "And J.J. Abrams is writing these stories — when I saw the movie where they kill Han Solo, I was furious... Absolutely, positively there was no rhyme or reason to it. I thought, You don't get the Jedi story. You don't get the magic of Star Wars. You're getting rid of Han Solo? And then at the end of this last one, they have Luke disintegrate. They killed Han Solo. They killed Luke Skywalker. And they don't have Princess Leia anymore. And they're spitting out movies every year."
"And they think it's important to appeal to a woman's audience, so now their main character is this female, who's supposed to have Jedi powers, but we don't know how she got Jedi powers, or who she is. It sucks. The storylines are terrible. Terrible. Just awful."
And perhaps to set the record straight, Lucas also directs her wrath at her ex-husband's prequel trilogy, revealing her disappointment in Episode I literally brought her to tears in 1999.
"I remember going out to the parking lot, sitting in my car and crying," Lucas writes. "I cried. I cried because I didn't think it was very good. And I thought [George] had such a rich vein to mine, a rich palette to tell stories with... There were things I didn't like about the casting, and things I didn't like about the story, and things I didn't like — it was a lot of eye candy. CG."
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@George-K there is a podcast called "Blockbuster" you might like. It's created by a film score enthusiast but does a pretty good job at "acting" (via audio, obviously) the story of various subjects. Season 1 was all about Lucas, Spielberg, Star Wars, etc... I found it entertaining to listen to:
