WHY DID HE SELL IT?

Please someone, I am begging you, tell me why did he sell Star Wars? He even openly calls them white fucking slavers. WHY DID HE DO IT?!? It can't be about money. This is the guy who always fought against the Hollywood. How can this happen? This is the worst timeline.

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I think initially he was led to believe he would still have some creative influence. Idk why he did this though he is old and rich is fuck like what is he gonna do with billions more

He gave up. The Plinkett reviews was the laat straw.

What do you autistic fucks think? If a jew comes through your door and offers you 3 billion for a dead franchise, wouldn't you accept?

Lucas was always after that easy money, greedy ol' pig.

If he wanted money he would've shat out yearly SW films like Disney is doing now.

Nah, he just thought they'd beg him to come back after TFA bombed.

he hung out in mcdonalds knitting and drinking soda. this is a man with a broken soul for whatever reason.

He thought he would die before the new trilogy was completed.
So he had to pass it on to someone he could trust.
He was basically acting as a "Master" to a new apprentice. Selling on the rights, watching over them. There if they needed him.
But they betrayed him and exiled him.

We broke his heart.

Deep down, we all know it.

It was his final fuck you to his ungrateful “””””””fans”””””””

No. You wouldn't sell your fucking legacy when you already basically have unlimited money. Something is not right.

>Spend cash to make more SW know that the audience is full of your shit, so you prob won't profit much
>Get 3 bil and retire for the rest of your life

Tell me this isn't a hard choice

>WHY DID HE SELL IT?

I believe there was blackmail, but not enough to actually force the sale. So they needed Kathleen Kennedy. Once they brought Lucas to the table with the threat of extortion, they used Kennedy to push him over the edge and convince him that selling was his best option:
>Think of your legacy
>Think of the fans who'd be disapointed
>You're getting up in there in age, George, and to be honest, you can't rely on your children to manage your company after you're gone.
>Sell Lucasfilm to Disney, put me in charge. Unofficially, you'll still have creative control. I promise.
>Trust me.

After the sale went through, Lucas realized that he had been betrayed. Kathleen Kennedy was loyal to Disney and had no intention of keeping him involved. Everyone should watch the interview between Lucas and Kennedy, which took place after the sale. Kennedy appears smug, confident and in control. Lucas comes across as defeated, pleading and miserable. Although he does make several thinly veiled swipes at "greedy, selfish and evil people."

m.youtube.com/watch?v=t5TGJquhP1s

Some people claim Lucas sold for the money. This is a weak argument since $4 billion was a low-ball offer and Lucas gave the proceeds to charity immediately after the sale.

Some people claim Lucas sold in order to stick it to annoying fans. This argument is weak because Lucas was never bothered by negative fan reactions before.

Lucas built and spent his career opposing the Hollywood studios system and repeatedly stated he would never sell or give up creative control to Star Wars. Yet here we are. When Bob Iger became CEO if Disney in 2005, he told the board that he would pursue an aggressive acquisition campaign that included Marvel, Pixar and Lucasfilm. 7 years later, he had George Lucas accepting the deal he swore he'd never even consider.

knowing*

LAAT straw?

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This

I guess, I recall he had plans after the last movie for a TV series that never materialized ... I think what broke him was Crystal Skull. Disney still mislead him ... I am sure of that but I think he realized that he kinda not going anywhere.

So he sold it to the persons that could pay him the money he was asking and maybe he knew that without him behind it, Disney would fuck it up without the excuse of "I created this" like what happened with the prequels were people despite not liking then, it was still Lucas and thus could not really complain as they are doing now.

>sell your legacy
George takes Star Wars considerably less seriously than the fans do. It's kind of hilarious how much more invested they are than the guy who made it.

They made him an offer he couldn't refuse...

GODAMMIT I WANNA MURDER THAT BITCH

George Lucas hates Star Wars and has for a long time. He likes to see himself as a deep artist and has always (since the late 70s, at least) said he regrets that Star Wars was keeping him from making "real" movies. A few years later, his wife left him for spending all of his time on Star Wars, it was pretty obvious he wanted to be done with it then; just look at the production behind ROTJ and how it changed when he started marriage counseling.

I think the only reason he stayed at it for so long was that it bought him praise. He was seen as almost a God by a lot of people, and even non-SW fans recognized his importance in Hollywood. And on top of that, he still got to pretend he was an artiste who was being held back by the demands of his adoring fans. Eventually, the backlash from the sequels started getting to him, and at the same time, he started getting into arguments with his neighbors about zoning. Feeling less adored and wanting to spite his neighbors (along with the fans he thought abandoned him) finally made him snap and decide to sell. His personal history of full of petty shit lie that. Money didn't have anything to do with it. He just got tired of putting effort into something he didn't care about, and he wanted to piss people off.

He was just a junk dealer. He sold Star Wars/Rey into labor for money. Or at least that's why Kylo Ren claimed, but maybe Episode 9 will reveal something different.

What makes it worse is that Lucas managed to bring back the original cast, who only signed on because they were all in it together.

Then Disney came in and moved Lucas out, and left us with a disappointing glib facsimile.

I'm sorry George, and Mark. You deserved better.

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He caught his daughter Katie Lucas masturbating one too many times with her fan-fiction-made-official husbando Savage Opress. Imagine him catching her masturbating to fan art she paid some huge patreon furrybucks for, seeing her moan about Savage Opress and how he's the perfect man for her?
George might have confronted her and she'd have said at some point "when you die, Daddy, I'll be in charge, and I can make all the Savage Opress movies I want then"
I wonder why he sold off his creative control and ownership, which meant that she could never do this?

>That clap at the end

This is some fucked up shit

>I think initially he was led to believe he would still have some creative influence

Well, if he thought this without consent in the contract then George got hustled or just had poor communication with his lawyer.

He got tired of the autistic fans
Now lives happy with his wife and new baby

Best timeline

I'd be really interested to hear his version of the sequels.

>The main thing is to protect these characters
>to make sure that they continue to still living in the way that you created them
>Adapts none of the books
>Drives Han Solo and Leia apart
>Turns Luke into someone who'd try to murder his nephew
>Make Luke a secondary character who now lives as a suicidal hermit
>Replace C3PO and R2D2 with BB8
....This isn't fair...
She knew what she was doing
We betrayed George

Prequel apologists make me retch.

He thinks hes a genius.

He thought if he couldn't make money off star wars, then no one could.

So he sold his legacy to people who aren't retarded and they turned it into a goldmine.

He already had billions. George was not a poor man.

Blackmail with planted childporn.

I fucking jumped. This is too real.

Probably a lot like what we got, except with much younger characters. We know that he had ideas fro characters that were basically Rey and Kylo, and Disney aged them up because they didn't want it to look like they were remaking the prequels.

to hurt you faggots like you hurt him

you wanted your yearly star wars shit without his evil influence and you got it

This is our fault
We failed him, we didn't see

>m.youtube.com/watch?v=t5TGJquhP1s
>The main thing is to protect these characters, make sure that they still continue to live in the way you created them
>Characters are killed off like pussies

The thing is, the money would have been paid by Fox or whoever he would have partnered with for distribution.
Also HBO or Showtime would surely have been interested in his Star Wars series taking place between Episode III and StarWars.
He planned 100 Episodes! That would have given them 10 seasons.

He could have just let StarWars be, it would still have made him money, and produce and direct as many art films as he wished.

George was worth $1,400,000,000 before he sold to disney. He didn't do it for the money.

We failed him. He trusted us, shared his vision with us, and we trampled all over it, neglecting its subtle brilliance. We broke his heart, and, in sadness, he sold his life's work to a group of evil people who assured him that they would definitely carry on how he wanted it. Now we are left with ruins. Ironic, we made Star Wars die of a broken heart, the very same thing people criticized as impossible.
Sumimasen George-Sama. Our only way of redemption is an honorubru death.

Fucking christ

the jews send the cowboy man

I shudder at the thought of what (((they))) will do to the Cap.

He wanted fuck you money. He’s been trying to build a jerkoff museum in prominent locations in major cities but keeps getting btfo because nobody wants his eye sore even if he has 4B.

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the guy didn't need money that is for sure.
the lego star wars licensed toys alone would have made sure that he could have lived like a king for the rest of his life.

>Ironic, we made Star Wars die of a broken heart, the very same thing people criticized as impossible.

Jesus... this brought a tear into my eye.

Please make it stop

>Lucas gave the proceeds to charity immediately after the sale.
So he gave the money to money launderers?

>would still have made him money
Like, I said, he doesn't care about money. He's already loaded, and has been for years. Money is completely irrelevant to Lucas.

>produce and direct as many art films as he wished.
He's been saying he's going to do it for 40 years, and he hasn't. Why? Because he doesn't really want to. He just wants to say that and pretend he's better than Star Wars, because he sees the series with contempt.

>When Bob Iger became CEO if Disney in 2005, he told the board that he would pursue an aggressive acquisition campaign that included Marvel, Pixar and Lucasfilm

Disney's getting scary :(

>you wanted your yearly star wars shit without his evil influence
only plebs wanted more star wars. patricians only like the ot anyway.

>Bob Iger

He already had fuck you money.

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bless you, I was hoping someone jumped on that one and you did not let me down.

he felt demoralised from the poor reception of the prequels and felt too much pressure was on his shoulders to deliver, that and lack of ideas

lack of ideas? he had full outlines for 8-9, even hamill is openly pissed that disney didn't use his ideas.

It's funny how you retards misinterpret "white slavers." He means they're white and therefore evil. George is liberal as fuck.

I'm not

>believe there was blackmail

I also think there was black mail involved but cant think of what it would be.

Why the fuck do I actually want him back?
Was it that bad?

Star Wars was tormenting him like the ring tormented Bilbo

Because he created the Star Wars you massive faggot

Blackmail

My source tells me he's a pedo. He's ranch is infamous place where elites come to fuck kids out of sight.

But he went and fucked it up as well.

Spoiler alert manchildren, Lucas is just as much of a hack as Disney. If you wan't to apologise to anyone, apologise to Gary Kurtz for actually turning George's shitty Flash Gordon script into Star Wars and getting no recognition for it. Apologise to the craftsmen who designed all of the iconic Star Wars ships and sets, whose names have been forgotten.

those craftsmen are all useless without someone leading them

gary kurtz is a non-factor

>gary kurtz is a non-factor
Maybe you Star Wars fans should actually read the accounts of people who worked on the original movie. Lucas was a huge fuck up. He made stunning series of terrible decisions, and Gary Kurtz, Lucas' wife and the studio were left to pick up the pieces. Kurtz in particular had to constently talk Lucas out of retarded decisions with the main characters.

Evidently, the movie where Kurtz had the most control is widely considered the best; The Empire Strikes Back. Coincidently, Return of the Jedi which Kurtz had no involvement in and no one was there to question Lucas is widely considered to the worst of the three, and the most pandering with kids toys.

So yeah right, non-factor

This.

All those billions bought him little in the end it seems. Hope it was worth it.

Eternal rule is that with jews you lose.

I've heard it all before, only talentless, buzzfeed-consuming bottom feeders praise people like Gary Kurtz. Empire Strikes Back is the worst Star Wars movie. If you wanna test whether or not someone is a bugman, just ask them what their favourite Star Wars film is. If their answer is Empire, you can just write them off as human cattle.

he was in a bad day

Thank you. Kurtz really is the unsung hero and brains behind the Star Wars we know. George's Star Wars (the prequels) is fucking awful. Kurtz' Star Wars is what people love
even today he's still schooling George on his fucking retarded decisions
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Delete this.

Kurtz is your typical orbiter. No one likes orbiters.

But he did have creative input. He wrote the story treatments for the trilogy, and was involved with developing Episode 7 script with Michael Arndt. It wasn't until Abrams was chosen to direct, and been around for a while they clashed. George decided it would be best if he'd step down and let them do their own stuff. Abrams & co. did fire Arndt as well, and started the script again with Kasdan. Elements of Lucas' ideas are in TFA.

He also paid visits to the Rogue One sets, and Edwards listened to his opinions.

He wasn't involved with Episode 8 or Solo.

Cause faggots likevyou kept on bitching about jar jar and sand! The prequels weren't great and he should have had directors make them like ESB and ROLJ but he still had a vision and a story to tell.

He gave us everything and we screamed and spit on him for it and we ended up with this piece of garbage which is far far FAR worse then any romantic subplots. Fell bad, feel really really bad now!

I've heard multiple sources say he's been directing shit for years and just showing them to colleagues cause he doesn't give a fuck to make money on them

I've heard people claim that, too, but I've never seen proof. As far as I can tell, it comes from George saying that he wants to make art movies and keep them to himself. But George Lucas lies about shit all the time, and people just believe him; I haven't seen anything indicating he actually has. If you have any proof he's actually done that, I'm interested.

Kurtz has claimed that he and George Lucas clashed over how to progress the Star Wars series. Kurtz claimed that after Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, Lucas became convinced that audiences no longer cared about the story and were simply there for thrills and entertainment, and began to deviate from the originally planned plotlines for Return of the Jedi, at which point Kurtz quit the series. Kurtz has also claimed that Lucas changed the emphasis from storytelling to prioritizing toy merchandising.[18] In a 2010 interview for the L.A. Times, Kurtz revealed that he had become disillusioned with what he saw as the commercially-driven direction the franchise was taking, as well as the related changes that Lucas made to the plot of the third movie, which was originally much darker, and supposedly included the death of Han Solo[citation needed]:

""I could see where things were headed. The toy business began to drive the empire. It's a shame. They make three times as much on toys as they do on films. It's natural to make decisions that protect the toy business but that's not the best thing for making quality films."[18]

Kurtz has expressed his dissatisfaction with Return of the Jedi and Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.[19] Kurtz was particularly displeased with Lucas' decisions in Return of the Jedi to resurrect the Death Star and to change the plot outline from one that ended on a "bittersweet and poignant" note to one having a "euphoric ending where everyone was happy".[18]

You mean the guy who made 3 movies more cause he only gain money from toys?

>But he went and fucked it up as well.
The same way the OT G-d destroyed the earth.
Original Trilogy = Old Testament.
Like poetry, it rhymes.