What Happened to George Lucas? 

I’d much rather not admire him for that and gotten a fantastic prequel trilogy. “He wanted to make the films HE wanted to make” why should I admire a man who wanted to make shitty movies. That’s only admirable if they were great. It’s like a waiter bringing me a plate of dog shit. Should I admire him for serving me what he wanted to serve me?

@Evan Belisle In that same vein, for, all of his glory, Jerry Bruckheimer, also, launched, the career of Michael Bay, and, audiences needed nearly three decades to realize that he, was, basically, Paul W.S. Anderson, with, better luck, professionally, and, maritally, tragic.

Yeah, but then he sold his baby and the baby didn't grow up like he wanted. Baby was a boy and grew up not knowing his gender or roots or his soul.

There was no "vision" for Star Wars. The story and characters were constantly changing. Practically nothing in the original script survived until the final film. Lucas' only "vision" was that he wanted to make a Flash Gordon type movie, that's it.

​@@white-dragon4424 blatantly untrue, but carry on.

We'll never get a THX-1138: Holiday Special.

@@captlazer5509 ... or will we?

@@RoverIAC good point, does Disney own everything GL ever made? Student films too?

@@captlazer5509 hopefully not

@@captlazer5509 , not sure i know Warner Bros owns THX 1138, and Universal American Graffiti. Universal also owns Howard the Duck the film but not the rights to the character which reside with Disney. I think Disney got the rights back from Paramount for Indiana Jones for the 5th movie. I wonder if they keep the rights to the first 4. Fox owned Star Wars 77, but Disney bought Fox. The Student films are property of the University of Southern California. George outright owned Empire and Jedi but he sold them to Disney.

Whether people like it or not, he is a visionary. The same people most likely take the technology used to produce movies nowadays for granted. Not realizing modern movies (mostly blockbusters) wouldn't exist as they do, for better or worse, because of Lucas. A lot of them probably are MCU fans and even though Phase 4 dropped the ball and Phase 5 didn't start that well, none of it would probably exist without him. It's because of him and ILM that Iron Man looked that good. Because they had their trial and errors prior to it with the Prequels and other movies. Anyways, I'll end it here before I go into too much ranting. Cheers from France! 🍻

Barry Sullivan was in payment on demand 1951 with John Sutton Bette Davis Francis Dee Otto Kruger Kent Taylor Walter sande Richard Anderson Wilbur Mack Cosmo sardo moroni Olsen James Griffith Lisa golm Bess flowers Kathleen Elis Lela bliss Natalie Schafer peggie castle Stuart holmes frank mclure Harry tenbrook frank wilock barry Norton Davis kasday Arthur tovey directed written by curits Bernardt produced by Sid Rogell

Without a doubt. And the legacy of Lucasfilm continues in that spirit. But that isn’t the issue. Who really denies what you said? I think the tragedy of George Lucas is that while he was doing a lot for the art of cinema, he was systematically and pointlessly revising, reworking, replacing and displacing _Star Wars,_ his one unequivocal success. And he ruined it. He _actually_ ruined it. George Lucas took _Star Wars_ back from all of us and has been slowly transforming it into something else ever since. Why? Because he can? “Let the past die. Kill it, if you have to.” And that’s what Lucas did: he has erased the past. Because, I guess, he had to.

I agree with what you said but at the same time you could say the way he changed the film industry lead to all the remakes sequels and franchises that push out other indie filmmakers from doing original stuff. And no george is definitely not SOLEY responsible for that but its kind of an indirect consequence

No, he is public domain, as soon as someone becomes a "celebrity" they become public property so to speak, they are the publics property to do with how we please, we can make or break them at a whim. They are merely playthings.

@@nnaheim. wtf ru on about, fix ur life.

​@@nnaheim. Tf?

​@@nnaheim. Uhhhhhhhhhh....Ratio?

​@@nnaheim. He's a human being not a property

Mr. Rogers would like to disagree.

@@Lobsterwithinternet Who is that?

Mr who ? George Lucas is known around the planet.

@@mysticmarble94 Mr. Rogers ran one of the longest-running children’s television shows on earth that started back in 1968 and lasted until 2001. For generations of children, he was their childhood and a national icon who help explain tough issues to young children from racism and the Cold War to the assassination of JFK and 9/11. The man literally is the reason the US still has public television. I'd suggest you look him up.

@@Lobsterwithinternet yea... but he ate that one little kid. kinda fucks his legacy up lmao

i didnt get the hate for Strange Magic. it is beatifull movie with great music. it is warm and funny, great family movie i can recommend to everybody

@@BorisHorvath , Disney didn't support it at all there isn't even a Blu-Ray.

@@matthewgaudet4064 yep, i know, but i dont understand it. for me, it is great movie i can recommend to everybody. i can watch it anytime

To be fair, Lucas only had himself to blame for screwing up Red Tails. After all if he stuck to his original "Lawrence of Arabia" style plan for this film, it would have been a great way to sign off his film career.

But red tails is an all black cast.. it’s never been done before…

Since George copied kurosawa

​@@pa.encema2821 No he didn't copy, he took inspiration from him.

@@GreenFalcon926 that's what its called 🙄

Yeah, this crap pisses me off. RU-vidrs with tons of views making videos that contain easily fact checked errors.

I mean he made up the stuff about George wanting to tell stories after his accident. George wanted to be a photographer and still to this day doesn't care much for story or plot. He decided on cinema at USC. But this guy needs his romantic retelling to be engaging.

So true. Those people who bashed Lucas are lowlife scumbags. Bet they all feel like crap now.

To be fair he also refused to release the original films in any hd format which is pretty shitty to the fans of the originals.

​@@toothbrushfromnisemonogatari From what I heard the reason Lucas can't release the "original originals" because his ex is mentioned in the credits and that he needs permission from her to release them again

@@toothbrushfromnisemonogatari a minor offense compared to rise of the skywalker

Don't be bloody stupid 🤦🏽‍♂️

Hrs writing a new trilogy uts happening dont worry he'll fix post ep 6

I love how subversive his first two films are. But if we had gotten his version of Apocalypse Now in 74 Star Wars never would have happened and i truly believe it would have been his last movie.

Showing my age, but I remember it. Hehe. Like you say, fantastic movie in every way. And still one of the best soundtracks to any movie ever! 😃👍

The script wasn't all his. It was co-written by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, as was ANH.

@@white-dragon4424 , all the characters were based on him or people he knew except for Steve and Laurie. Those came from his co-writers.

@@matthewgaudet4064 In what way does any of that have anything to do with him having major help in writing the script for ANH?

Maybe, but he can brood all the way to the bank! Likely the in the richest 500 people in the world

If you sell off your life's work for 5 billion dollars, you don't rely on "good faith". He knew what he was doing, and shouldn't whine afterwards. If he'd really wanted to have influence on the new stuff he should've added a little clause to the contract. Even though Disney's output has been a bit hit and miss, it's been mostly hit.

His ideas were sort of interesting, would really have to have had them fully worked out in a screenplay. What i wasn't sold on was Maul as the new big bad. Would like to have seen Han as a leader in the new republic government with Leia as Chancellor and Luke teaching the next generation of Jedi. Han and Leia's children as the new main leads. Disney Star Wars is awful.

I don’t really think he sold it to them and they had a handshake agreement that he would do what he wanted them to do. I mean yeah he can make suggestions but he flat out said he never wanted to make any more Star Wars movies. We’re Disney drop. The ball was thinking it was a good idea to shuffle movie directors, and tell them just to make up a script as they went. I think the force awakens was awesome, but because nobody really knew where these characters came from or where they were going when they made the second movie Rian Johnson didn’t have any direction on where to take anyone, so he just killed off the main good guy in the main bad guy and I don’t care if George Lucas and Steven Spielberg teamed up to do the rise of Skywalker they were screwed from the beginning because they were starting over from scratch. As far is why George Lucas sold Star Wars you don’t have to look any further than the most toxic Fanbase in the world. I love Star Wars, but I don’t love every movie so the only time I watch attack of the clones is when we are doing a Star Wars marathon other than that I never watch that movie. It’s so bad it’s cringe at places. But I’ve never accused George Lucas of inappropriately doing something to my childhood or harassed actors online. Nope I just don’t watch the movie. Problem solved. When you look at everything, George Lucas went through, both actors that played Anakin in the prequels went through, the actor that played jar jar and everything he went through. I don’t blame him. The man created one of the most beloved franchises in the world, and for the next 20 years, the fans would not leave him alone about how bad they thought the prequels were so then he sells it and then everyone sitting around with their mouth open going “ well why did George sandwich this is it right?” It’s kind of like how the Zack Snyder fans never supported Zack Snyder when he was working for Warner Bros. but then the minute they showed him the door because the fans didn’t like his movies they decided he was the god of directors and only he could make the right DC movies they wanted. Bottom line the fans in the world of geek culture. Have a favorite past time of complaining and getting online and harassing people, and some people would rather just walk away then deal with the basement dwellers.

​@@bdr113080 I remember all the hate Lucas got for the prequels years ago when on social media.

And well deserved hate, all of us fans just wanted one thing, release the original star wars on dvd, but he said FU, now look under disney its fully destroyed. In the end that was not too much to ask to have the original on dvd.

@@markcab2055 It is on DVD. It was a single release bonus disc.

Me too!!! I'm very grateful to Mr. Lucas!!! He gave me the greatest cinematic experience EVER. I went crazy when I saw Star Wars at the movie theater!!! I couldn't believe that someone would make such a BEAUTIFUL and AMZING FILM--thanks to George Lucas!!

Can you say that even though his resume isn’t saturated like Steven etc….?

@@e.enriquez4589huh??? I wouldn’t even put Spielberg and Lucas in the same league. Spielberg is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. George Lucas made like 2 ok movies over 40 years ago

Not in the slightest. If anything, he's one of the worst, to the point that Gil Taylor, the head cameraman on ANH, had to get Lucas away from the camera on at least one occasion because he could see that Lucas didn't know what he was doing. Lucas' idea of lighting would've also made the film look flat rather than atmospheric as well.

@@JohnnyNiteTrain I think that's what he was saying. The OP says that Lucas is the greatest filmmaker, but Spielberg is clearly a far, far superior filmmaker than Lucas will ever be. A lot of what we see on screen in Spielberg movies is down to his personal dynamism, whereas everything I've seen, heard and read about Lucas' films has been him leaving most of the creative side to other people. As a director he himself has said that he sits quiet and miserable, and needs others to even remind him to say "Action!" and "Cut!". Gil Taylor, the head cameraman on ANH, described Lucas as "elusive", and he was mostly forced to make his own decisions. He found Lucas to be such a bad director that he refused to ever work with him again.

@@white-dragon4424 ahhh I see. I misunderstood. My bad Enriquez

Many would disagree. In fact more than many would.

@@robmoye7373 Less than 50% though at this point, I think

Oh yes. The naysayers don't have 10 good arguments against them

@@robmoye7373only literal NPCs would

The prequels are fantastic. The world building and action scenes are some of the greatest things I have still ever seen in anything. I don't understand the hate for them. I'm sorry there are some politics in a movie franchise about wars. Was not a deal breaker at all for me.

35:10 Clearly he is transforming into Jabba

​@@hagestad he became Palpatine for a while...

Not really. He never really changed much, he's said it himself. His only change was in his perception.

It's not hard at all. When he was making the original trilogy, he was married to Marcia, who would tell him "this is crap, you should rewrite it." They divorced, and we got Howard the Duck and the Phantom Menace. Couldn't be more clear.

@@officialmonarchmusic he searched his feelings instead of trusting them...

Yes, but it is strange that Lucas let someone else handle the most high profile early SW spin off. Lucasfilm was probably in flux at that time and Lucas preoccupied with many things. But it still required him, or someone he trusted, to have some oversight.

Agreed

Yeah, just look at what happened, when, Conan, stupidly, got handed off to Richard Fleischer, the results spoke, for, themselves.

But definitely needs an editor to make it good if it happens

@@raptorskilltor4554 Lucas started as an editor and is a very good editor.

@@RoverIAC But a terrible script writer.

@@Lobsterwithinternet what you talking about Lobster?... every single line from the prequels makes a great quote. "We don't take republic credits."

@@RoverIAC Yeah, so does Howling 2. Doesn't make it a good script or a good film.

Not a single word of what Leigh Brackett wrote made it into the final film. Lucas credited her because he liked working with her and he thought she deserved credit after her death

Speaking of which, he had a much better career, than, Irvin Kershner.

@@matthewdaley746 Kersh directed 'Stakeout on Dope Street' (1958). I use to have the movie poster on my bedroom door.

@RoverIAC Unfortunately, his last film, was, RoboCop 2, that franchise, was, completely sunk, after, Paul Verhoeven departed.

Pretty much. Plus how horrible the Disney Sequel Trilogy turned out made people appreciate the prequels more. Like choosing between mac n’ cheese and a plate of feces.

Great take , totally agree! All the movies had flaws, but it seems that fans just want everything to be exactly the same, even though it needs to be fresh to get new fans.

@@timloader Not even close.

Empire is the best of them all, but rots is definitely the best of the prequels,

There will never be anything more exciting then Darth maul activating the second blade of his duel lightsaber.

And Lucas didn’t even direct it!

That's not how it works. The prequels are good movies, the sequels are not

OT Suck up

I dare you to sit down and try get through episodes 8 and 9 and enjoy it 😂 Terrible movies

@@Klynch111 could we make it a bet and at least I'd get something out of it

Lucas made a decision after that car crash to make his life meaningful and productive. He achieved that intention. Like all of us Lucas has his flaws, limitations and blind spots. He will though be able to look back on his life and ultimately say he did his very best.

I don't hate the guy, but crapping on his creations with a bunch of CGI sillyness, and then refusing to release the orignal theatrical versions is just asinine.

@@robmoye7373 I don't know if he still refuses it. Disney has the rights for over 10 years now. But is this reason enough to condemn his whole career and treat him like he's the worst guy ever? He's not the first artist in the history of men who doesn't want certain art pieces to be shown anymore. Many painters destroyed some of their own paintings so the public couldn't see them anymore. With the original SW movies, there's at least the possibility to find them online or on vhs. But yeah, Disney should just release the movies in some kind of special edition. They would sell like hot cakes. Greetings from Germany :)

@@moserfugger6363 As I said I dont hate the guy, and I recognize and respect his contributions to cinema. As for the original SW trilogy, at least there is project 4k.

@@robmoye7373 No it isn't

Not to mention that George wanted Last Crusade to be a hunted house movie and he wanted to have giant ants in Crystal Skull. Both were also shot down by Spielberg.

No. The version that Lucas's director buddies was AFTER they were edited by those people. If you don't believe me, check out "How 'How Star Wars was saved in the edit' was saved in the edit" for the hard facts

​@@officialmonarchmusic wasn't it his wife at the time who saved the edit?

@@Klynch111 Nope. Several people and stories, along with the popular (and false) video "How Star Wars was saved in the edit" suggested it, but the truth is more complicated. The short version is, Lucas saved his own film ALONG with her and several other people. It was not just her. But I prefer the long version. John Jympsan was the first editor on Star Wars. He was not good for the job so he was fired. The supposed "disastrous" cut was from him. Lucas hired Richard Chew, Marcia Lucas, and Paul Hirsch along with himself (he went uncredited) to create a cut that aligned with his vision. Together, they eventually made a cut good enough to show other people. (By this point Marcia and Richard had left the project) This is the cut that was shown to Lucas's director buddies, named by the OP, and ironically enough, this "terrible" cut (which I believe to be negatively received solely due to the unfinished effects and sound) is proof of why the other editors saved the film, while this was literally edited BY THEM. In short, Lucas saved his own movie, and the OP has no idea what he is talking about

And The Empire Strikes Back came out in 1980, not 1981. Did you do ANY research before making this, or were you just completely talking out of your ass?

They suck regardless of what a RU-vid channel says about them

Well, them and people who have ALWAYS hated Star Wars

Hey nice last name buddy

@@truesoulghost2777 Good luck with your gaming videos. I see one with zero views. I see another one with one view. I see one with eight views. I'm sure you'll get there.

Schweig still, Kamerad!

Don't forget the turd RoboCop 2. It just goes to show that the original Star Wars movies' quality wasn't down to one person, but rather it was a team effort. The quality slipped noticeably when Lucas started to take more control over the movies with ROTJ, rather than relying on a collaborative effort that ANH and ESB relied on. ROTJ was when Lucas started to paint his house his way, rather than asking advice from others.

With, an enormous assist from Kathleen Kennedy, I've heard rumors that Lucasfilm's going to let her go, after, Indiana Jones, that's, seriously, grossly overdue.

​@Matthew Daley That rumour has been going round for the last 3/4 years.

@JM Perhaps, but, the severance package, was, announced last December, her failure is complete, and, let's be honest, "Kevin Kennedy," would have been dumped a decade, ago, her time's up, period, just is.

I liked Andor, Roge 1, and Mandalorian better than any Star WARS since Empire Strikes. I think all those were Disney, weren't they?

Disagree - Lucas had already done that with the cheesy prequel trilogy and the original trilogy special editions. While there are definitely some shaky efforts since Disney took over SW, on the whole it remains as entertaining and interesting as it ever was.

Exactly. It's ultimate Indy, and so is the fridge scene.

Those three were religious and magical in nature. Aliens aren't.

Lucas's wife has spoken out about this. She says people are trying to make stuff up

OT suck up

​@@mr.nobody5082 thr fucks your problem?

No it was last crusade look it up

@@j.k.1633 I did...and its Batman.

Worldwide it was The Last Crusade, but in the USA, it was Batman. So you guys are both right.

@@Elora445 That's correct. I can't argue with that.

Yes, he did. Regardless of the quality. Good for us that the prequels are high quality movies. (Fight me)