By Chris Snellgrove
| Revealed 27 seconds in the past
Overlook Anakin Skywalker…to many Star Wars followers, George Lucas is the actual Chosen One. As a result of Disney continues to run Star Wars into the bottom, followers have satisfied themselves that the Maker may be the one one who can save this franchise from its miserable decline. However right here’s a bitter fact greater than any area station: Lucas was already working the franchise into the bottom, and he can be dealing with Star Wars simply as badly as Disney if he was nonetheless in cost.
Arguably, the primary actual proof that George Lucas had fallen off was the discharge of the Particular Editions. At first, Star Wars followers liked seeing the Authentic Trilogy in theaters once more, however the decline in high quality was apparent…Garish CGI changed ingenious sensible results, and a few cool moments like Han Solo killing Greedo have been ceaselessly ruined by means of awkward enhancing. “Endlessly” is the important thing phrase right here as a result of solely the Particular Editions are actually bought or streamed, holding us from probably the most iconic variations of those movies as a result of Lucas determined to pave over his artistic legacy for an opportunity to make a couple of further bucks.
The Particular Editions helped construct up hype for The Phantom Menace, the primary movie of George Lucas’ highly-anticipated Prequel Trilogy. The film had highlights like the large battle with Darth Maul, nevertheless it was principally a significant disappointment that changed the previous franchise magic with farting particular results and a barely-literate area rabbit that steps in poop. The prequels have since discovered a youthful viewers, however to older Star Wars followers, these chaotic and borderline incomprehensible movies have been proof the franchise was in decline and even brilliant spots just like the Clone Wars cartoon have been constructed on Lucas’ failure to inform a superb story within the first place.
Now, Disney purchased the franchise from George Lucas in 2012, and the failure of the Sequel Trilogy and a number of TV spinoffs have made many followers assume Star Wars wouldn’t be in decline if it had by no means been bought. Nevertheless, we’ve established that Lucas was busy squandering the franchise that made him rich for a full 15 years (the primary Particular Version got here out in 1997) earlier than promoting it to Disney. And what most followers don’t understand is that he was performing some loopy stuff earlier than then, together with creating a Star Wars live-action present whose episodes would have price $40 million a chunk and principally doomed the franchise.
That’s the actual story, nevertheless it’s one that almost all followers don’t wish to admit: had George Lucas by no means bought Star Wars to Disney, the franchise would nonetheless be in full decline if not useless altogether. New concepts just like the impossibly budgeted live-action present show that Lucas had misplaced no matter Jedi-like knowledge precipitated him to create the franchise within the first place. Plus, it’s value remembering that among the Disney-era Sequel Trilogy concepts followers hated a lot, together with Luke Skywalker as a hermit educating a precocious younger girl, have been initially developed by Lucas himself.
For Star Wars followers who’re dissatisfied with the present state of the franchise, it’s tempting–comforting, even–to assume that George Lucas might have finished all the things higher. In actuality, although, he had already begun ruining the franchise, and Disney’s personal failures present how properly they realized from the person who introduced this galaxy far, distant to life. And at this level, we are able to simply hope that Star Wars comes again as a enjoyable Pressure ghost as soon as Disney has completed killing it.
