A theory on why he sold Star Wars
Do you think that maybe he sold it because he felt guilty about how much time people waste on Star Wars? There many people born after 1977 who have lived their entire lives and centered their existence around these movies. Perhaps Lucas felt bad that so many of them have wasted their lives because of a few movies he wanted to make. All he wanted to do was something similar to the Buck Rogers-style serials he enjoyed as a kid. He wasn't planning on people changing their religion to Jedi or spending time and money building Death Star replicas in their backyard. Perhaps that's why he has given so much of his fortune to charity since selling it. Maybe he wants to make up for all the collective centuries of time and millions of dollars wasted by so many.
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