From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , Cyber kNight   
    wrote:   
   >   
   > For better or worse (and I'm hoping better) Lucas split with   
   > Star Wars when he sold it to Disney. His only role in the   
   > new movie was an advisory role. Others involved in the   
   > original trilogy have been involved in the new one and I   
   > think it's important to remember that while Lucas created   
   > Star Wars, it wasn't his work alone that made them great.   
   > I'll always hold Lucas in high regards for creating my   
   > favorite childhood movies but the prequel trilogy was a   
   > disappointment, in part because he kept too much control. He   
   > should have allowed others to direct as he did with episodes   
   > V and VI and should have probably also delegated more of the   
   > screenwriting tasks. Lucas is probably too much of a control   
   > freak to work well with a new owner of his life's work but   
   > if he really wanted to create new Star Wars movies himself   
   > he probably shouldn't have sold it in the first place.   
      
   He *shouldn't* have sold it. Lots of signs point to him going senile.   
   Supposedly he sold it to provide for his family and spend more time   
   with them (including the new money-grubbing wife half his age and baby)   
   ... both of which he could have done without selling to anyone else,   
   and would have made him far more money.   
      
   He was of course already working on new movies when he sold to Disney,   
   but didn't want to have another multi-year, all-consuming commitment.   
   He could simply have handed the day-to-day running, as well as the   
   producing and directing, to others.   
      
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