Bob Iger reveals George Lucas felt 'betrayed' by Disney's StarWars plans
franchise has been met with widespread success, one particularly influential figure wasn't on board with the creative choices made in creating the story of Rey, Kylo Ren, et al: George Lucas, the man who created the franchise more than four decades ago.
As it turned out, Disney and Lucasfilm didn’t follow Lucas’ lead for the new movies, a decision Lucas discovered when Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy andwriters J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt met to discuss the new trilogy, and specifically the 2015 installment. “George immediately got upset as they began to describe the plot and it dawned on him that we weren’t using one of the stories he submitted during the negotiations,” Iger writes. “George knew we weren’t contractually bound to anything, but he thought that our buying the story treatments was a tacit promise that we’d follow them, and he was disappointed that his story was being discarded.
Added Iger: "George felt betrayed, and while this whole process would never have been easy for him, we’d gotten off to an unnecessarily rocky start.” Things didn’t improve when Lucas saw the finished movie. Following a private screening, Iger recalls, Lucas “didn’t hide his disappointment. “There’s nothing new,” he said. In each of the films in the original trilogy, it was important to him to present new worlds, new stories, new characters, and new technologies. In this one, he said, ‘There weren’t enough visual or technical leaps forward.
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