Famous American director George Lucas. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
[I-Epoch Times, Meyi 26, 2024](Compiled and reported by Epoch Times reporter Ye Jie) During the twenty fourth native time, George Lucas, the creator, director and author of the movie “Star Wars”, spoke in regards to the present state of the movie trade. He criticized Hollywood for making sequels with little thought from the start, and explains why he bought “Star Wars” to Disney in 2012.
George Lucas, 80, is known for creating a few of the largest hits in movie historical past, together with American Graffiti, the Star Wars sequence and the Raiders of the Lost Ark sequence. Indiana Jones). After making a revenue with the primary “American Graffiti” and “Star Wars” movies, Lucas registered his personal studio, Lucasfilm.
Lucas ranked first within the leisure trade with a internet price of US$5.5 billion (roughly NT$177.3 billion) within the 2024 Forbes Global Celebrity Rich List. According to the “Hollywood Reporter”, Lucas bought Lucasfilm to Disney for $4.05 billion in 2012 to supply the “Star Wars” sequel.
Afternoon on the twenty fourth. He spoke in regards to the movie trade on the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and mentioned that new firm managers make many errors.
“I used to be the one who actually understood the world of Star Wars as a result of there have been so many tales in that world,” mentioned Lucas “The Force, for instance, nobody understood the Force. After promoting the corporate, they began making different motion pictures, loads of concepts from the primary one had been misplaced, however that is the factor, you cease , he provides it up.”
According to “IGN”, Lucas criticized present Hollywood, “The tales they inform themselves about outdated motion pictures: Let’s make a sequel, let’s make one other model of this film. Not simply in motion pictures, however in nearly each area.” nearly with out authentic pondering.”
When it involves what Hollywood motion pictures will appear like in 10 years, Lucas mentioned: “It’s the identical state of affairs now. Here’s the factor now: It’s most likely extra more likely to occur with broadcast than characteristic movies, however with characteristic movies, “It’s the identical with motion pictures, no one is aware of what to do.”
Lucas mentioned that Hollywood solely respects the films which can be at present profitable, however doesn’t worth authentic and progressive tales. He mentioned: “It’s like saying: I’ve seen one thing, let’s do one thing like that. It’s additionally a strategy to promote the movie. If you go and say: I’ve one thing you’ve got by no means seen and you’ve got by no means heard, the longer the story goes, the tougher it is going to be to succeed in an settlement.”
He didn’t anticipate that the rise of the streaming media platform Netflix would save the movie trade, “So everybody needed to save lots of the movie trade, however nobody knew that streaming media might reserve it. That’s when Netflix began, and that is once I began to save lots of the movie trade. He mentioned : I did not know what this was going to be, the trade was going to vary loads, and I did not know a lot about it, I bought the corporate and retired.
Lucas admitted that his retirement is expounded to the difficulties going through the movie trade in accordance with the report of “ScreenRant”, he mentioned that he noticed issues within the enterprise of distributing theatrical performs and determined to depart the movie trade as a result of he noticed that the enterprise was falling. The Verge, “Streaming is admittedly highly effective, it is nice, and it is actually lifting the film enterprise. Because the theatrical film enterprise… we will see the issue, it isn’t in an excellent place.”
Lucas, who simply turned 80 on the 14th, was awarded the “Honorary Palme d’Or” on the closing ceremony of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival (also referred to as the Cannes Film Festival) held on the twenty fifth He realized from his lifelong good friend Francesco Francis Coppola acquired the award. Coppola himself is a well-known filmmaker. He is the director of the “Godfather” trilogy, “Apocalypse Now” and different movies.
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