Star Wars: George Lucas Explains His Decision to Step Away
The name that will always come first for Star Wars will always be George Lucas. However, George Lucas recently decided to retire from filmmaking and sold the franchise and Lucasfilm to Walt Disney Studios. Recently, Lucas spoke to Vanity Fair and shared some of his reasoning behind his decision to step down from Star Wars and filmmaking. Lucas did admit the criticism from fans, likely from the widely derided Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, did get to him. He stated, “You go to make a movie and all you do is get criticized.” He added, “And it’s not much fun. You can’t experiment.”