By Chris Snellgrove
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Forget Anakin Skywalker… For many Star Wars fans, George Lucas is the real elected official. Because Disney continues to run Star Wars in the ground, the fans convinced themselves that the manufacturer could be the only one who can save this franchise from its depressing decline. But here is a bitter truth larger than any space station: Lucas already directed the franchise in the ground, and he would manage Star Wars as bad as Disney if he was still in charge.
We can say that the first real proof that George Lucas had fallen was the release of special editions. At the beginning, Star Wars fans loved to see the original trilogy in theaters again, but the drop in quality was obvious … CGI CRIARD replaced the ingenious practical effects, and nice moments like Han solo Killing Greedo was ruined forever thanks to clumsy montages. “Forever” is the keyword here because only special editions are now sold or broadcast, keeping us the most emblematic versions of these films because Lucas has decided to pave his creative heritage to have the chance to win a few additional dollars.
Special editions have helped build the media to The ghost threatThe first film in the long -awaited prequel trilogy by George Lucas. The film had strengths like the big fight with Dark MaulBut it was above all a major disappointment that replaced the former magic of the franchise with special effects of farting and a barely literate space rabbit that walks in the poop. The prequal has since found a younger audience, but for the older fans of Star Wars, these chaotic films and incomprehensible limits were evidence that the franchise was in decline and even light points like the cartoon of Clone Wars were built on Lucas’ failure to tell a good story in the first place.
NOW, Disney Buyed the franchise from George Lucas in 2012, and the failure of the Trilogy Suite and the television spin-offs was reminiscent of many fans to think Star wars born Be in decline if it had never been sold. However, we have established that Lucas was busy wasting the franchise which made him rich for 15 years (the first special edition was released in 1997) before selling it in Disney. And what most fans do not realize is that it was doing it mad Tips before that, including the development of a live action program Star Wars whose episodes would have cost $ 40 million per piece and sentenced the franchise.
This is the real story, but it is the one that most fans do not want to admit: if George Lucas had never sold Star Wars to Disney, the franchise would always be in total decline, if not dead. New ideas like the incredibly budgetary live show prove that Lucas had lost Jedi -type wisdom made him create the franchise in the first place. In addition, it should be remembered that some of the fans of some of the Disney’s suite ideas hated so much, including Luke Skywalker As an Ermite teacher an early young woman, were initially developed by Lucas himself.
For Star Wars fans who are disappointed with the current state of the franchise, it is tempting – which is, even – to think that George Lucas could have done everything better. In reality, however, he had already started to ruin the franchise, and Disney’s own failures show how well they learned from the man who brought this galaxy away, far from life. And at this stage, we can just hope that Star Wars will come back like a fun ghost once Disney has finished killing it.
