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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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I don't believe so, but I guess it's possible.
He's gotten tired of Star Wars before. In 1983 after Return of the Jedi came out he said he was done making those movies and he didn't want to do any prequels or sequels.
I think he's just a guy who never really liked directing that much but he wanted to see his ideas put on film.
When you become rich enough to do whatever you want and you don't like directing films, then why hang on to the movie franchise that everyone keeps bugging you about?

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Well MY theory is that after the prequels came out all the fanboys started screaming that he'd ruined their childhoods and they hated him, he was the worst human being ever to live. They went on and on back in the day, the way they go on and on about Disney now.

Of course that's not the primary reason he sold off the franchise, but IMHO that period may well have convinced him that he didn't owe the fans anything.

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You might want to dig deep and look at George's beginnings as a child, who his father was, the movie set he was allowed to visit and study when he was a teenager. All the answers are there for the taking.

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How about telling us your theory without all the homework?

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Damn if I don't want to know if this guy's just a poseur!

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Who's the poseur, Lucas or ebhaynz?

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I was referring to ebhaynz, but the sky's the limit!

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He sold Star Wars because of how disgustingly self-entitled and poisonous internet fans became. This all started back with the prequels with the bullshit "he raped my childhood" memes and ended with Red Letter Media trotting out the horrible Star Wars special to destroy his legacy as a filmmaker and paint him as an idiot bean counter who just credit for other people's work. I'm a creative, and I would be sick to my stomach if it turned out that fans of something I made that was meant to be positive were these very angry, bitter and toxic people.

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The Star Wars fanboys get no respect.

For good reason.

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If you were a “creative” then you would realize how utterly terrible and embarrassing to the franchise’s legacy the prequels and special editions were. Lucas did his best to fuck up the entire series, all for money. But evidently it wasn’t enough, he needed to get Disney involved as well.

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If you have something of great value , yet you do nothing with it , then someone offers to buy it for a large sum of money , you would sell , whoch is what Lucas did.

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I really don't think it had anything to do with the fans. I think he was tired of it. A video I watched recently pointed out how Lucasfilm didn't really have any projects in development when it was sold to Disney. That's not really like George of old. He always had a dozen pots on the stove. I think he was just out of ideas, tired and sick of it all. The Disney stocks he got would more than keep his lifestyle going. They'll keep their worth forever. Stars Wars maybe not so much. It's not like he was already making the next three movies, well into pre-production and decided you know what, screw these assholes fans of mine. Or realized he was making society worse for creating golden idols. He was just old and tired.

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