George Lucas is an angry man these days it would seem. The filmmaker doesn't look too pleased that he sold Lucasfilm and "Star Wars" to Disney, and it shows in several interviews in the past, including this one.
In an interview with Charlie Rose, Lucas described "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" as a retro movie, something that is not up to his taste. The filmmaker says this because The Force Awakens in many parts, is a copy of the older movies.
Lucas said all he wanted to do was to tell a story of what happened after the events of Episode 6, but Disney had no intentions of allowing him nowhere the script, and as such, the company with J.J. Abrams at the helm released a movie with little originality that borrows much from the older movies.
Apparently, the plan Disney had was to create a retro film, something for the fans they said. That is precisely what was released, and George Lucas is not happy about it because he believed it should have been different, just like each of the previous films were different.
"They wanted to do a retro movie," he said. "I don't like that. Every movie, I worked very hard to make them different, make them entirely different with different planets, different spaceships, to make it new."
It's quite sad to see Lucas going through this. We could argue that the prequels were terrible, but at the end of the day, they were all different. "The Force Awakens" is just a rehash of the old films, a film in all honesty that is not what many reviewers made it out to be.
Let's hope Episode 8 is more original and compelling, because this one is clearly not.