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I Sold Star Wars to ‘White Slavers — George Lucas
Posted On Jan 01 2016
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If he really was just trying to joke around, George Lucas needs a humor check after he called Disney “white slavers” during a recent interview with Charlie Rose.
With the enormous box office sales “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is generating, it’s a good bet that many people are going back numerous times to see the movie.
“Hollywood built the ideal box office beast in 2015, with one hit movie after the next, week after week, exceeding expectations with a regularity that made it look easy”, said Rentrak’s senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian, in a statement on Rentrak’s website.
The enormous popularity of the film “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” which has earned over a billion dollars at the box office since its release, is not going to help the game “Star Wars Battlefront” in any form. Well, now The Force Awakens is at fifth place.
Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012 for a colossal $4 billion (£2.7 billion) and put director JJ Abrams in the saddle, with George giving up the reins. In the meantime, we broke down all the records it has destroyed and who got left in the dust. He was responsible for having spawned the original trilogy as well as the “much-maligned” prequel, although Lucas says he wouldn’t have followed what Disney would’ve wanted him to do, anyway.
“I sold them to the white slavers that takes these things, and…” he laughingly breaks off. But one he believes was right, as he said of his Star Wars efforts: “I worked very hard to make them completely different, with different planets, with different spaceships – you know, to make it new”.
Some might say that the theory is a little far-fetched but when you see comments such as these, you can certainly understand why this theory is catching on. “I didn’t want to go through life feeling like I was just riding a wave”. “I’m going to try and take it into something that is more emotionally powerful than most of the stuff we’ve done up to this point”. Do you think 2016 can top it, or perhaps 2017 when “Episode VIII” arrives?
