>>220292650money, obviously. he's a dumb greedy boomer.
He was fcking tired man. You'd get it if you made things
he needed another private jet and and five houses that will be empty
>>220292650He looks so happy. I love you George.
>>220292702>Boy, I sure am happy I sold my life's work for a few billions.
>>220292650I heard a rumor he was a victim of bernie madoff and actually needed the money or he’s lose ilm or something like that.
>>220292714Tired of what? Owning the biggest franchise of the last 50 years? That's just dumb. He could have handed over his franchise to his students.
>>220292764resting bitch face. bitch needs to smile more.
I don't blame him for selling, I think most people would have. But to do so while completely relinquishing all creative control is bizarre. He could have baked in SOME requirements on what they do with the sequel trilogy. At the very least requiring to see an plan/outline he was satisfied with. But he basically just gave them wholesale control and then for some reason tried to consult on it afterward at which point he was swiftly ignored and told to pound sand. He never strikes me as a particularly intelligent man when you listen to him talk but the naivete is too much here, its bizarre.
>Hop in anon, we're going to Disneyland
>>220292650A big farewell Fuck you!!! to the fans the detractors and Mike Stoklasa in particular. future generations will see his genius as a storyteller and that he was right
>>220292864Yet he somehow was intelligent enough to keep merchandising rights and to build ILM and basically telling all of Hollywood to fuck off.
>>220292846>Tired of what? star wars fans
>>220292650Blame these faggots for draining whatever enthusiasm he had left. Now apologize.
>>220292846Disney would get their hands on it after he died anyway, might as well get the payday and enjoy it. He knew he sold them a $4 billion turd wrapped in gold foil.
>>220292650>I want to do my own things now!>I will use this money for that!>Does nothing but photobomb a random guy's YouTube vlog
>>220292934Yeah, it's weird. His accomplishments read of someone obviously extremely competent and smart. Maybe it's autism. "Don't worry George we'll make sure to consult you on all major story decisions" and he knew Kennedy and Iger for years and just took them at their word? I don't know.
>>220292944So you actually think George watched the Plinkett reviews and that's what gave him the idea to sell? Lmao
>>220292650He wanted to retire but he also wanted Star Wars to continue on. Disney was the best choice to do that, they had the money and resources. They had strong presence in theaters, in TV, and in theme parks. The MCU was running high, reaching massive audiences and dominating pop culture. Disney ended up making garbage, but that was always a risk and the alternative would be to just let the franchise whither and die until his estate sold it off after he passed.
>>220292650To piss star wars fans off, and because he's as jewish as the rest of them. If he cared he would not have sold
>>220292846Anon he unironically thought Disney was the best company to sell to. He had worked with Disney for decades prior and had a good relationship with them. He was completely blindsided by them ousting him from the sequels.
>>220293029Didn't he also leave an outline for where he thought the next movies should go, and Disney wiped their ass with it and hired Rian Johnson?
>>220293029>completely blindsidedOh no George! He just could not foresee that these talentless hacks and coldhearted businessmen over at Disney would be coldhearted when it comes to his ideas.
>>220293064Yes.Not that George's ideas were much better....
>>220293029>>220293064>disney this>disney thatanons, he personally chose kathleen kennedy to replace him. no matter which studio he sold it to, or even if he kept ownership and retired and put her in charge of his company, it was always going to go this way. she was obsessed with hardcore metoo corpo girlboss feminism and there was never any hope for her to make any films the audience actually wanted to see.
>>220293155AT LEAST GEORGE HAD ANOTHER TRILOGY OUTLINED!The whole Disney corporation could not even plan for more than one film at a time. It's just unbelievable.
>>220293199You do realize the OT wasn't planned and that the Prequels weren't either right?
>>220293104No, he couldn't. When he was selling it to Disney they had success after hit after blockbuster. Literally everything they released made a bajillion dollars.How they fucked up Star Wars was actually the first instance of people realizing that Disney is starting to go down the drain.Remember the interviews that came immediately after the purchase:>Kathleen Kennedy talked constantly about preserving George's legacy and adapting the treasure trove of books and games he left behind.>Bob Iger stated Star Wars was supposed to be the male/boy-focused IP to supplement what Disney already had.To everyone and sundry it appeared they actually knew what they were doing.
>>220292650He wanted to punish the world for recognizing that the prequels were bad.
>>220292650Where do you think Iger’s other hand is in this picture? That’s right it’s got a lock on George’s balls and he’s twisting.
>>220293838Well obviously he didn't account for millennial and zoomers growing up with them. Had he just been more patient ...
>>220292650George was a fan boy. He loved Disney. Jar Jar is an ode to Goofy. He also wanted to guarantee everything he built stayed after he died. Disney will do that.
>>220293838Yeah that's why he waited a decade before selling....
He genuinely thought Disney would use the property in good faith. He should have known better.
>>220294112https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beDN-q3UcbY
>>220292650Honestly he made the right move by cashing in. Star Wars had already run it's course, you're not topping the Anakin story arc.
>>220294094He knew they would ravage the IP thus making his works look good in comparison. He made the right decision.
>>220292650Billions
>>220292650To hurt Mike Stoklasa
>>220294138kek
>>220293029>>220293064>He was completely blindsided by them ousting him from the sequels.He probably should have put a clause in the contract requiring his approval for significant canon changes.
>>220293019>they had the money and resourcesbut not the passion or creativity, Gelege should have known that.
I wonder how different things would be if he had licensed the Star Wars IP to Disney instead of selling it outright.
>>220293685At least they were original amd not rehashes like the sequels
>disney>disneyno anons you guys are wrong. disney was thriving all through the time the sequel trilogy was getting made. pixar, the mcu, disney live action remakes all raking in cash and satisfying fans at the same time. george lucas’ choice of kathleen kennedy to run the franchise is what killed it. she was the hyperfeminist “the force is female” corpo karen who insisted on putting her self insert mary sue into the trilogy and she is the reason star wars is cancer today. and no I’m not simping for muh megacorp, I’m just saying their other divisions were thriving and the mcu in particular was at its absolute peak at the same time star wars was being turned into a joke. it wouldn’t have mattered if he sold it to another corp, or even if he kept ownership but retired and hired kennedy to replace him. it’s her presence that ruined the franchise. and he is the one who picked her. it actually had nothing to do with disney or with his choice to sell the company at all. it was his choice of who would replace him that killed star wars.
>>220294378I think him selling it off was a combination of feeling disenfranchised over the lukewarm (and mostly negative) reception of the prequels, and being too tired to make big budget movies.Although some people like Ridley Scott are older and still making movies, that in itself isn't an excuse.
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>>220292650Capitalism is the key to all of this
Its a strange paradox that as directors get more recognition they get less pushback on their ideas, but the pushback from other people was what made the movie that got them the recognition what it was.
he had already ruined it enoughit was time to let someone else piss on the ashes
>>220294398>this shit is an original turd, that means it's betterlucas was a fucking hack and ruined star wars long before disney
>>220294538>Capitalism is the key to all of this>hands IP to a bunch of leftoids
name a stronger hairline
>>220292650he was pressured by the "industry"
>>220294802Kurt Russell. Sam Elliott.
Can fan films save Star Wars? Will Disney allow them to be made?
>>220295419who the fuck wants to watch a fan film?
>>220292650Why didn't they get that people want OG Star Wars or at least a spiritual successor to it.
>>220292650Everyone was (deservedly) shitting on him for botching the prequels. Selling was him taking his ball and going home, and giving everyone the finger on his way out. Based on the interviews he was doing at the time, he seemed extra bitter.
>>220294813The ST being shit doesn't retroactively make the prequels good. Anything good about the prequels was just George being propped up by really talented people.
>>220294647Yeah if George’s wife and a few others didn’t reign his turboautism in Star Wars 1977 would have been the beginning and the end, only remembered by scifi buffs as a goofy laser gun fantasy on par with Krull. He really should have let a professional director sit in the drivers seat for the prequels and been there only in an advisory / continuity role.
>>220296451he would say that he tried to do that, but really he only asked like oscar-winning directors who were friends of his and when they said no he decided to do it himself. he could’ve hired some up-and-comers of the day and collaborated with them, but I think his ego was such that he thought star wars needed a “great” director instead of some young gun. just think about some of the directors who were coming up in the industry around that time who could potentially have directed one of the prequels>chris columbus >stephen sommers >peter jackson >sam raimi >gore verbinski>the wachowskis>christopher nolan any of those guys would have killed to direct a star wars prequel film in the late 90s/early 00s but lucas apparently thought that if spielberg, de palma, or coppola wouldn’t do it then no one else could. except him of course. but then again he also hand picked kathleen kennedy to replace him as the head of lucasfilm, so clearly he isn’t a very good judge of who to hire, anyway.
