How George Lucas Got The Rights To the STAR WARS Sequels

George Lucas tells the story about how he ended up with the merchandising rights and the rights to the sequels for STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE.

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[dreezaayy]

george lucas, filmmaker legend.

enough fucking said.

there will never be a scifi movie saga like star wars. ever.

[MoltenPlastic]

And then the geeks came, and merchandising reigned supreme!

[duracell777]

"Im all about the merch, cut me and a bleed merch"

[luismendezs]

@rettie movies made after books don't count. ooops.

[xyz478]

@dreezaayy What about Spaceballs???

[bierbuik]

@JeffDavadPhotog Yea and then we ended up with the prequels lol. George works better when he's not the only one making decisions

[brpadington]

He probably went back and added pointless additions to the agreements.

[JeffDavadPhotog]

To cut through all of this negativity and get right to the point. George Lucas did not care for the studio system nor did anyone at American Zoetrope or other small independent studios coming out at the time when he first started. When he created Lucasfilm he began to work towards the goal of someday having total creative control over the kind of movies he could make. When he got the merchandising rights for Star Wars that gave him the first step in total control over his creative process.

[rettie]

@dreezaayy

Of course.

There will be different sagas.

Some will be worse. Some will be better.

[BodyMovinPolarBear]

the smartest guy in film industry. there u have it.

[nerdflanders8710]

@dreezaayy thank God



[kurvos]

@dreezaayy Tell that to the Trekkies. LOL XD Oh, and to all those god awful haters of the Star Wars prequels as well. Seriously, what is their problem?