George Lucas has revealed why he opted to sell Lucasfilm to Disney, a choice he called “painful.”
Lucasfilm, the first Star Wars franchise hub, was sold to Disney in 2012.
The filmmaker spoke to author Paul Duncan for his new book, The Star Wars Archives: Episodes I-III 1999-2005. Duncan shared an excerpt of the book on Twitter, which featured the conversation with Lucas.
“At that point , i used to be starting subsequent trilogy; I talked to the actors and that i was beginning to fix ,” Lucas said. “I was also close to have a daughter with my wife. It takes 10 years to form a trilogy – Episodes I to III took from 1995 to 2005.”
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“In 2012, I was 69,” he continued. “So the question was, ‘Am I getting to keep doing this for the remainder of my life? Do i would like to travel through this again?’ Finally, i made a decision I’d rather raise my daughter and luxuriate in life for a short time .”
“I’ve spent my life creating Star Wars – 40 years – and giving it up was very, very painful,” Lucas went on. “But it had been the proper thing to try to to . i assumed i used to be getting to have a touch bit more to mention about subsequent three [films] because I’d already started them, but they decided they wanted to try to to something else.
Things don’t always compute the way you would like it. Life is like that.”
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