Royal
Connoisseur of Exotic Pictures
I love watching Hamill take a shit on Disney but I wouldnt trust him to write that shit, he seems borderline unstable and too obsessed with his own character. Lucas should have wrote these and someone who is not riddled with white guilt directed. Lucas would have wrote it with the intention of giving a proper close to the Star Wars saga. The Disney shit is clearly intended to leverage the old material into as many new revenue streams as possible.
I have no desire to see George "come back" (I think they do still run the occasional idea by him, they being some of the creatives in Lucasfilm that worked with him for many years. And Gareth Edwards has talking about George's visit to the set when he was shooting R1 and bouncing ideas off the old guy). And frankly I don't think he even wants to. He sold Lucasfilm because he recognized that they needed to have some movies in active production for him to keep the number of people he had employed but he couldn't get any of the studios interested in anything that wasn't Star Wars and I think he just didn't want to make any more of those movies. I'm sure he's looking at the storm of hate howling against Rian Johnson right now, thinking back to the aftermath of the prequels, and saying to himself "Yeah, I don't miss that shit".
But I wouldn't be surprised to see Lucasfilm eventually offer him a production gig on a standalone movie. Perhaps the next wave of standalones that will drop in the intervening years of Rian Johnson's next trilogy (provided he ends up doing it).
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