While talking about how much he loved the films he created, the 'Star Wars' creator said, "I sold them to the white slavers that take these things and..."
- December 31, 2015
AceShowbiz -
George Lucas looked unhappy with "Star Wars: The Force Awakens". During a recent interview with Charlie Rose, the "Star Wars" creator criticized "retro" tone of the latest installment and jokingly compared Disney to "white slavers" which had bought his "kids."
"These are my kids. All the Star Wars films," the 71-year-old filmmaker shared, "I love them, I created them, I'm very intimately involved in them. And I sold them to the white slavers that take these things and..." He didn't finish his sentences but rather laughed before Charlie asked him other questions.
George said he had begun working on another "Star Wars" film before the Disney takeover, but the company was not "that keen to have me involved." He explained, "If I get in there, I'm just going to cause trouble, because they're not going to do what I want them to do. And I don't have the control to do that anymore, and all I would do is muck everything up. And so I said, 'OK, I will go my way, and I'll let them go their way.' "
"They decided they didn't want to use those stories. They decided they were going to do their own thing. So I decided, 'Fine,' " he continued, "The first three movies had all kinds of issues. They looked at the stories and said, 'We want to make something for the fans.' All I wanted to do was tell a story of what happened. It started here, and it went there."
"They wanted to do a retro movie," George said of "The Force Awakens", "I don't like that. Every movie, I worked very hard to make them different, make them completely different with different planets, different spaceships, to make it new."
