While the whole world is mesmerized by the celestial box-office movie "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," George Lucas, the maker of the original "Star Wars" feels otherwise.
When asked whether he has regrets in selling the movie franchise to Disney, he refused to express a negative answer. However, in an interview with Charlie Rose, Lucas considered the first six episodes as his "children" while his selling of the movie's franchise to Disney as "a breakup."
Reports circulating in the Internet say that the award-winning filmmaker wasn't pleased with the remake at all. This is so, perhaps, because the new movie just borrowed his original plot and just relive the original characters from his produced films.
"The first three movies had all kinds of issues, [Disney] looked at the stories, and they said, we want to make something for the fans. I said, all I wanted to do is tell a story of what happened; it started here and went here..." he told Rose.
In Ars Technica, Lucas also clarified that "Star Wars" is an ultimate family soap opera, calling it a space opera and should have been about family not spaceships.
"We call it a space opera, but people don't realize it's actually a soap opera, and it's all about family problems. It's not about spaceships," Lucas explained.
As the interview went on, Lucas seemed to have been very vocal about what he really thinks about what is being done to his original production. Well, who wouldn't react on that?
"[Disney] wanted to do a retro movie," he said. "I don't like that. Every movie, I worked very hard to make them different, with different planets and different spaceships," he added.
But, despite Lucas' affirmation of "not regretting" and "being at peace" about the selling, his attempt to suggest that his story outlines be used in the new film goes to show that he still wants to have a role in the making. How is that?
"They decided they didn't want to use those stories. They decided they were going to do their own thing... and I decided, fine, but basically, I said... If I get in there, I'm just going to cause trouble, because they're not going to do what I wanted to do, and I don't have control to do that anymore, and I'm just going to muck everything up," Lucas went on.
The box-office hit producer also shared that he wants to use much of his time working on something else like building museums.
After calling his separation from "Star Wars" production as "a divorce," Lucas was bound to make a public apology with Disney after calling them "white slavers."
"I misspoke and used a very inappropriate analogy, and for that I apologize," he said in a statement given to the Hollywood Reporter. "I have been working with Disney for 40 years and chose them as the custodians of Star Wars because of my great respect for the company and Bob Iger's leadership."
Despite the negative feedback he's trying to express in a subtle, positive way on the recent "The Force Awakens" Lucas just can't stop the movie from captivating its fans even critics, from receiving positive movie reviews, even from making billion of dollars in the Hollywood cinemas worldwide.
