Star Wars creator George Lucas took a slight shot at The Walt Disney Company during a recent interview with Charlie Rose.
Lucas sold his space adventure franchise to Disney for $4 billion in 2012. The latest title released under the Disney moniker has already grossed more than $1 billion.
While talking to Rose about how much he loved the films he created and four of which he directed — even calling them his "kids" — Lucas said "sold them to the white slavers that take these things, and ... " Lucas did not finish his thought (49 minutes in to the clip below), but rather laughed before Rose moved on to another question.
Lucas went on to tell Rose he has accepted that the franchise is now in other hands, then he somewhat criticized the latest installment, The Force Awakens.
"They wanted to do a retro movie. I don't like that. Every movie, I worked very hard to make them different," Lucas told Rose. "I made them completely different — different planets, different spaceships to make it new."
Before the deal came about, Lucas said he planned on writing and directing the sequels to his original trilogy. Then the sale occurred. Disney was not interested in his ideas for the follow-ups, so he stayed away from the production of Force Awakens, he said.
"They weren’t that keen to have me involved anyway, but 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," he said. "And so I said, 'OK, I will go my way, and I’ll let them go their way.' "
The latest installment has been a massive success and will likely become the highest grossing film of all time.
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#EwokLivesMatter
He's probably calling them racists because they are trying to suppress the Gungan people. Smart move on Disney.
I'm with Disney on this, fuck the Gungans! Not just Jar Jar. They are all fucking stupid.
""They wanted to do a retro movie. I don't like that. Every movie, I worked very hard to make them different," Lucas told Rose. "I made them completely different — different planets, different spaceships to make it new." "
This whole quote is bullshit.
Why does nobody ever mention that A New Hope is basically Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress set in Frank Herbert's planet Arrakis (Dune)?
He's just pissed that Disney's doing a better job IMO.
George did fine work with Industrial Light and Magic. But his best days as a director are behind him. As a writer he's a hack.
It is funny that a guy who created alien races built on WW2 era racial stereotypes is calling somebody else "white slavers". Dude sold short, nobody's fault but his own. 
Combat Sport Fan -HereWeAre -
""They wanted to do a retro movie. I don't like that. Every movie, I worked very hard to make them different," Lucas told Rose. "I made them completely different — different planets, different spaceships to make it new." "
This whole quote is bullshit.
except tattoine is in 5 out of his 6 movies.
I mean just off the top of my head for the prequels:
I - Corusant
- Naboo
II - Kamino
- Geonosis
III - Kashyyyk
- Mustafar
- Utapau
Fuck off George....jesus u created obe of the worlds greatest franchises but your vision sucked in the end and was time to let someone fresh have a go 
Let's see how his new smaller artsy films do.
He was more interested In the technology to create the films, not the actual films.
He has no one to blame, but himself. He never knew how much backlash he was gonna get for the prequels. He lost touch since he was spending so much time buying flannels and making fx tricks.
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He has all this fuck you money and he is still being such a sweetie.
He probably regrets selling the entire franchise for $4 billion when the first movie post Lucas has grossed more than $1 billion in what.....two weeks?
Thacommish -Huggsbear -Combat Sport Fan -HereWeAre -
""They wanted to do a retro movie. I don't like that. Every movie, I worked very hard to make them different," Lucas told Rose. "I made them completely different — different planets, different spaceships to make it new." "
This whole quote is bullshit.
except tattoine is in 5 out of his 6 movies.
I mean just off the top of my head for the prequels:
I - Corusant
- Naboo
II - Kamino
- Geonosis
III - Kashyyyk
- Mustafar
- Utapau
Pretty sure 1 of those is the dad from lion king
LMAO
Meh TFA fucking sucked. I agree with lucas at least the prequels were original. They werent as bad as people made them out to be. Yeah they weren't great but at least they were somewhat original and weren't trying to target 5 year old kids.
The Destroyer88 - He probably regrets selling the entire franchise for $4 billion when the first movie post Lucas has grossed more than $1 billion in what.....two weeks?
I dont think the 4 billion matters to him, from what I've read, he plans on donating it all anyway
Jamien604 - Meh TFA fucking sucked. I agree with lucas at least the prequels were original. They werent as bad as people made them out to be. Yeah they weren't great but at least they were somewhat original and weren't trying to target 5 year old kids.
what are you smoking? The prequals compared to the TFA? Makes it seems liek freddie got fingered compared to goodfellas.
fuck george lucas!
Jamien604 - Meh TFA fucking sucked. I agree with lucas at least the prequels were original. They werent as bad as people made them out to be. Yeah they weren't great but at least they were somewhat original and weren't trying to target 5 year old kids.
Um.... Errr.... What??
Ramon Maroni -The Destroyer88 - He probably regrets selling the entire franchise for $4 billion when the first movie post Lucas has grossed more than $1 billion in what.....two weeks?
I dont think the 4 billion matters to him, from what I've read, he plans on donating it all anyway
If it didn't matter to him he would of sold it for $1. Personally I think he got robbed and as much as I didn't care for the prequels I would've much rather seen TFA done by the creator of Star Wars, rather than outsiders making up a story, and being very unoriginal about it.
The prequels were crap but like someone said at least they were original.