Marcia Lucas - George's ex and an editor on the original trilogy - isn't a fan of the newer releases.
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Marcia Lucas is no fan of the Disney-produced “Star Wars” movies.
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Lucas won an Oscar for editing the original “Star Wars” along with Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew. She returned to co-edit “Return of the Jedi” and went uncredited on “The Empire Strikes Back.” Prior to “Star Wars,” Lucas made a name for herself editing Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver” and “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” and she was also Oscar nominated for “American Graffiti.” Marcia Lucas was married to George Lucas between 1969 and 1983.
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I'd say she's got all the credibility and room to speak on such matters. It's one thing for a nobody on the Internet - me - to rag on them, but when you hear the ex-wife of George Lucas, and someone who was in the trenches back in the day and who helped edit/shape those first three movies, doing so...yikes!
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“I Like Kathleen. I always liked her,” Marcia Lucas says in Rinzler’s book, “Howard Kazanjian: A Producer’s Life.” “She was full of beans. She was really smart and really bright. Really wonderful woman. And I liked her husband, Frank. I liked them a lot. Now that she’s running Lucasfilm and making movies, it seems to me that Kathy Kennedy and J.J. Abrams don’t have a clue about ‘Star Wars.’ They don’t get it. And JJ Abrams is writing these stories — when I saw that movie where they kill Han Solo, I was furious. I was furious when they killed Han Solo. Absolutely, positively there was no rhyme or reason to it. I thought, You don’t get the Jedi story. You don’t get the magic of ‘Star Wars.’ You’re getting rid of Han Solo?”
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She's just getting warmed up...
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“They have Luke disintegrate,” Lucas says. “They killed Han Solo. They killed Luke Skywalker. And they don’t have Princess Leia anymore. And they’re spitting out movies every year. And they think it’s important to appeal to a woman’s audience, so now their main character is this female, who’s supposed to have Jedi powers, but we don’t know how she got Jedi powers, or who she is. It sucks. The storylines are terrible. Just terrible. Awful. You can quote me…JJ Abrams, Kathy Kennedy — talk to me.'”
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Tell us how you
really feel, Marcia. Kinda different to hear from folks like this, or were/are in that circle and work with all these people, etc. Usually they opt for the neutral, diplomatic approach. Either they're good enough friends that they can do this and take it,
or they're already frosty/no love lost and Lucas simply no longer cares to hold her tongue. So she doesn't.