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A theory on why he sold Star Wars

posted 5 years ago by [deleted]
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Do you think that maybe he sold it because he felt guilty about how much time people waste on Star Wars? There many people born after 1977 who have lived their entire lives and centered their existence around these movies. Perhaps Lucas felt bad that so many of them have wasted their lives because of a few movies he wanted to make. All he wanted to do was something similar to the Buck Rogers-style serials he enjoyed as a kid. He wasn't planning on people changing their religion to Jedi or spending time and money building Death Star replicas in their backyard. Perhaps that's why he has given so much of his fortune to charity since selling it. Maybe he wants to make up for all the collective centuries of time and millions of dollars wasted by so many.

[–] Devilman (450) 5 years ago

Guilt ! No, that's not it if you go through the events that led to the selling of Lucasfilm you'll just understand that it's not just Star Wars that Lucas sold to Disney it's the entire library of Lucasfilm ownership for like what 4 Billion dollars that will not just keep him crazy rich but also his grand children for years to come.

For him it's a Win-Win situation and I do believe that after the flop of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull he probably realized he lost his touch with film making.