The Mandalorian

jayrebb

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Yea to an extent. I think he ran out of options. He was creatively uninspired by the time he wanted to sell and it wasn't like there were dozens of offers out there. There's probably a part of him that was bitter about the fact that it grew outside of his control as a phenomenon and people just wanted endless gay lightsaber fights but laughed about the worldbuilding and politics he created. So Disney says they'll make gay movies with gay lightsaber fights forever and give him 4 billion or whatever, seems an acceptable price to let even if in anger.

It's in Bob Iger's published memoirs. They had a deal to make George's sequel trilogy and backed out of it pretty much instantly as soon as the ink dried.

George never blamed Kennedy for this, he knows it was all Disney.

He's back doing some consulting for Lucas Film as of a few years ago-- but it took several years of healing to get there. There was many times Kennedy wanted to call George and said she couldn't around 2017 TLJ pre-ROS.
 

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People do forget that Lucas was responsible for a lot of the unpopular changes to the original trilogy in the special editions (Greedo shooting first, then later relented slightly and made Greedo+Han shoot simultaneously) and the prequel trilogy was poorly received. It took the Clone Wars cartoons to rehabilitate the audience perception of the prequels.

People also forget that while he did originate the overall ideas, other script writers wrote ESB and ROTJ.

Lucas has always been a great idea guy, but his best Star Wars works have been when he collaborated with others
 

Sylas

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Lucas has always been a great idea guy, but his best Star Wars works have been when he collaborated with others
since when? Go back and read "Adventures of Luke Starkiller as taken from the Journal of the Whills, Saga I: The Star Wars"

fucking android lizard person Luke Starkiller a spicer space pirate laser space racer man.

Dude is a hack and has always been a hack and the only reason Star Wars was successful at all was his editors and everyone else telling him "No", "STFU" and "we can't afford that, just use practical effects here"

Star Wars succeeded in spite of him and he knew it which is why when Empire completely overshadowed the success of what was renamed "A New Hope" he got mad and started trying to reinvent the story in return of the jedi and added in all his dumb shit furry toys. Vader wasn't even Luke's father in Lucas' version of the story that was added by much better writers than him. Fucking Ewoks and rehashing the same deathstar plot from the first film is the first time we saw Lucas "ideas" and they were shit, even when he had people around him telling him no.

We know exactly how good an "idea guy" Lucas was when he had free reign to do whatever he wanted, the prequels were absolute shit with zero redeeming qualities at all and until the sequels came out I didn't think it was possible to ruin a franchise in such a spectacular way.

With Disney and KK though we at least know they are doing it on purpose because they are woke trash that hate men. George actually thought his shit was good and he was a talented creator.
 

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Cal and Merrin in live action would be cool
Had to look them up. They are both entirely new canon, none of that legends stuff. So there's no reason to think merrin won't be right there along side of him. Unless this is set before they met. I didn't bother to look at the timing.
 

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FOH is talking ab out sword fights, how long till the rob roy or whatever clip is posted
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