It seems like George Lucas just can't seem to let the "Star Wars" franchise go even after he sold it for a whopping $4 billion to Disney.
During an interview with The Playlist, Lucas shared once again that he did not see eye to eye with Disney as to where the franchise is headed, and both of them agreed that it would be best if he had no involvement with future films.
"They looked at the stories, and they said, 'We want to make something for the fans'....They decided they didn't want to use those stories, they decided they were going to do their own thing....They weren't that keen to have me involved anyway - but if I get in there, I'm just going to cause trouble, because they're not going to do what I want them to do. And I don't have the control to do that anymore, and all I would do is muck everything up," he said. "And so I said, 'Okay, I will go my way, and I'll let them go their way.'"
"They wanted to do a retro movie. I don't like that. Every movie I work very hard to make them completely different, with different planets, with different spaceships, make it new," he added.
Lucas then sounded quite bitter when he called Disney the "white slavers," even comparing the old "Star Wars" films to "kids" of his own.
"I sold them to the white slavers that takes these things, and..." he laughingly breaks off.
Lucas then discussed Hollywood's reliance on old and bankable films, and he said this is the reason why there aren't more adventurous films out there in the market that would titillate next generation fans.
"Of course, the only way you could really do that (make money) is not take chances. Only do something that's proven," Lucas explained. "You gotta remember, 'Star Wars' came from nowhere. 'American Graffiti' came from nowhere. There was nothing like it. Now, if you do anything that's not a sequel or not a TV series or doesn't look like one, they won't do it!"
As for himself, Lucas teased that he has several little "experimental" projects up his sleeve.
"These are little tiny movies...I'm going back to where 'American Graffiti' or 'THX (1138),' where I can completely change the way you tell a story in using cinema. I produced a few films that were like this, but they weren't like what I would do," he shared.
