Studio executives have loitered on set since the dawn of time. This is true for every film and TV show that's been made. While they may not literally hover over her shoulder every second of the day, rest assured she's in constant contact with them through emails and weekly -- if not biweekly -- conference calls [Zoom] keeping them apprised of what's going on. And they, in turn, give her notes and and other input. You know, like every other fucking business in the world. Like any other division leader in any other field, she is beholden to the people who sign her checks. And they say 'jump', (and they do say 'jump'); she says "How high?" Wut? People do that all the time when they deserve scrutiny. See, for example, any r/NFL live game thread during MNF. People constantly complain about the commercials and put the blame solely on Disney.
That would be a first for me. I've heard ESPN hosts blame ABC and Disney but not over commercials. That's interesting... *smokes pipe in thoughtfulness*
It might not always be negative, but I do see a lot of references to Disney when it comes to Marvel Studios output. Both Marvel and Lucasfilm are owned by Disney, and the Bobs Iger and Chapek do have seem to play at least some role in deciding what those companies are going to do. I'm pretty sure she gets a least a few of emails and phone calls like that. Marvel and Lucasfilm are two of Disney's biggest money makers right now, so I'm pretty sure the Bobs probably keep a pretty close eye on them, and take at least some role in OKing things they want to do. You might not like it, but there really is. There are two very clear eras of Star Wars, when it was an independent company owned and run by George Lucas, and when it was bought by Disney and run by Kathleen Kennedy. Disney and Kennedy have taken a different approach to the franchise than Lucas did, so I think it's entirely fair to use Disney when you are specifically discussing things that have happened since they bought the company.
Honest question. What would individuals want from Lucas coming back and how would this be different than the Prequels?
Presumably portray the big three as more central and heroic, they would be willing to get some stiff acting and a lot of CGI eye-candy to get that.
If Lucas was in charge of 7-9 and assuming he would have picked her for the part, Daisy Ridley's career would have never taken off.
From some of the comments he's made, even if George Lucas did do VII-IX we probably still wouldn't have gotten that.
I don't think those individuals want anything different from the prequels since it only ever seems to be prequel fans who want Lucas to return. Seems unlikely anyone else would. Prequel fans got used to SW being exactly what they wanted, so it probably came as a shock when someone tried to tell a story without so many lightsaber duels. I imagine we'd have got exactly that if Lucas had actually had to make the sequels.
Haven't read every post in this but do people not realise George Lucas is 76 years old? 77 next week? If he wants to go make another massive trilogy for the next 10 years go ahead, but I don't see it happening.
From comments people who are familiar with his version of the sequels have made, it sounds like he would have also introduced a central cast of new characters, including a young woman as the lead, and Luke would have still become a hermit.
I watched this YouTube video. The commentary is what a Lucas ST would be like based on comments Lucas has made over the years. Supposedly. I mean, I recall the comments Lucas made about the midiclorians and the innerverse, but those thoughts are absent in this video. Instead, the idea is presented that ep 7 - 9 would be about Anakin's grandchildren (sorts like what we actually had). Darth Maul would be the main villian teaming up with another Sith named Darth Talon. The story about the Empire would parallel the fall of Iraq and the rise of insurgents - former stormtroopers would resist the New Republic and form their own rebellion. Luke would begin rebuilding the Jedi order by searching the galaxy for Force sensitive younglings. Leia is busy forming the New Republic and a Skywalker granddaughter (similar to Rey) is the new focal character. It was an interesting video and, again, all based on printed quotes attributed to Lucas. Worth a listen.
I would like a list of his sources. I do not trust Star Wars Theory any more so no matter how interesting his speculation it is still still speculation.
I didn't watch the video, but from your description, I can't help but wonder how trustworthy that is. I don't remember ever hearing Lucas go into that much detail about what his plans were, and it really just sounds a little to perfectly line up with what the fans want.
Jesus, that name is right up there with 'General Grevious' and 'Darth Sidious'. Well, I wasn't keen on his whole Ewoks/Vietnam thing... but I guess the overriding problem here is the same one (IMO) the ST we got suffered from. Kinda happened too soon, and kinda happened too late. This sort of setup is a bit of a no-brainer and is pretty similar to the EU stuff that came along before TPM, but it works a lot better if you can pick up reasonably soon after ROTJ when our main characters are still reasonably young. Either that or have things set much further in the future when the actors are legitimately old. 32 years after seems too long a gap for them to be going through setting up the New Republic and dealing with insurgents and such, but it also doesn't seem quite long enough for a whole new power to have developed that puts our good guys into the position of 'resistance'. I guess this might be why they tried to have it both ways. Personally I've always wished they'd set it a few hundred years or so in future to make what we previously saw feel more like a legend, then have Luke the only recurring character. Obviously they really wanted Carrie and Harrison though. Yup. If Darth Maul had showed up for an extended fight sequence in TLJ, I'm guessing we wouldn't have seen anywhere near the level of fan outrage.
The information in this video comes mainly from The Star Wars Archives Episodes 1-3 1999-2005 by Paul Duncan.