George Lucas Talks More About His Post STAR WARS Plans And EPISODE VII Involvement

Awesome can't wait :)

Good for him. Glad he's able to do what he wants but also glad Star Wars won't stagnate.

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Bowing out with grace? Well, maybe a decade or so too late for dignity but at least he's moving on to that last phase of trying to help the world.

Some ppl are so disrespectful to the man who made this possible in the first place

1: U-turn on the Disney deal and sell Lucasfilm to Spielberg instead.

2: Give away all your money!

3: Die!

damn Ceejay....rough day?

He needs to have little to no further involvement with Star Wars. The franchise has developed a life of it's own and any input from him at this point would only serve to further damage it's potential. You've [frick]ed it up enough George. Bail dude.

I've been saying for years, we need a live action Star Wars series. Star Trek did it. Star Wars has waaaay more potential.

I think we need to respect Lucas More even though he did the prequels we have to respect him for creating a world we know and love and have respect for the material.. Rather than saying "Thank God his gone now we can have good Star Wars Movies" he did create the original Star Wars universe after all.. Just saying

Lucas imasculated Vader and Han Solo while giving us Jar Jar Bunks and ewoks and all manner of other unforgivableness....he needs to stay far away.

The Star Wars universe is a collaboration of literally thousands of people. Just because they don't have the same name recognition that Lucas has doesn't mean their contributions and sacrifices should be discounted. And as far as Star Wars being HIS vision. . to a certain degree, that's true. But they didn't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to, so to another degree, it's not true. There's a pretty famous line from Harrison Ford to Lucas in regard to dialogue, "You may be able to write this shit, but you can't SAY it." Ford and others colored outside the lines a bit despite George's vision.

But for all the flak that I and others give him, he does deserve praise for A New Hope. Without that one being completely awesome, none of this would have happened. So , thank you George. With Episode IV, you done real good. And IF it's true that he donates the lion's share of 4 billion he receives for Lucasfilm, etc. to charity, then he'll deserve kudos for that, as well. Because that would be a totally classy thing to do with the money (that he doesn't need).

some people have no respect, like if they can do any better than lucas the actual creator

The guy should just retire, relax and have a nice life. I say the same thing about P-Bo come Wednesday.

@joe6pack74 Sorry, "P-Bo" gonna be back at work still running things.

Best scenario for everyone. Lucas suggests virtual non involvement in future Star Wars films while he goes all Andrew Carnegie and becomes a philantropist. Well played George. You're gonna make a lot of people happy.

"Bigger and better things."

Like what? Georgy... Like what? Howard the Duck 2?

DINKLEBERG...

How the hell do you move on to "bigger and better things" from bloody Star Wars????

I would have absolutely no problem having George Lucas putting his penis and testicles in my mouth and all over my face. I will always love that man unconditionally.

All the respect for the man.

Even more respect for him for donating most of his profit on Lucasfilm deal.

And even more for letting it go!

Good luck George, I'll be checking out what comes next from you. Hope the SW-free moviemaking makes you turn into a great writer and director again.

Respect for Lucas. The man created a whole mythology and influenced the pop culture forever. 'Nuff said.

@Maia86

Lucasfilm and Disney have had a close relationship since the 80s, via STAR TOURS (now in its second, even better iteration), STAR WARS Weekends, and the absolutely huge amount of merch they've produced from that collaboration.

If any company knows STAR WARS as good as Lucas, it's Disney.

if this is a hint he doing a movie like THX 1138 then i am down.

haters gonna hate, i always laugh at the raping my childhood bullsh!t. i have the org unaltered versons on dvd. watch them when i want. no issue there. watched prequels and didn't rage like everyone else.

said it before and i'll say it again. some 'fanboys' just feel the need to bite the hand that feeds them. don't like what your being offered? fair enough. claiming that prequels are the worst thing ever and lucas has no redeeming qualities is laughable. i can think of alot of crappy movies that made money that suck more than prequels and talent who can still get work even when their best pales compaired to lucas worst.

i know, i know, we all critis on this site. but this debate (star wars arguments in general) are pointless. i grew up with star wars and never felt betrayed by special add. or pre's. for that i have been called not a true fan. look i am nerd with mad passion but star wars is what it is and has become what it has become. a real fan maybe looks at the whole objectively, good with the bad. i would argue if the orig tril is all you like then i argue you are a casual fan and need to step off your soapbox.

i feel better now.

There's nothing sad about this news. He had the Star Wars saga fleshed out in a 12 film treatment and basically let it stagnate for more than a decade after the first three releases, then when he finally did get back to it in the form of the three prequals, spent his spare time during that period mutilating the original three films with "upgrades and tweaks" while locking the original theatrical release versions away from the fans. Then spent the next decade flogging all six dead horses over and over while the saga continued to stagnate some more!

At least now the production of the remaining episodes are planned at this point. FINALLY! Would have been nice to get episode VII into production 10 or 20 years ago when the original cast were at the appropriate ages for it.

Christ! The only "sad" part about this whole thing is that Disney didn't buy him out years ago!


@Bartman87 - Yes. That should be their first move. Release the original theatrical versions on Blu-Ray. Give the long time fans what they want and what Lucas has been denying them for years.

@ Boogie138 - So you've got a dvd duped from a 20 year old vhs tape any time you want to watch them. Big deal. Looks like $hit on a big screen TV when compared to a 1080P Blu-Ray. Believe it or not, many of us actually CARE about the image quality of the movies we watch.