George Lucas retires from making blockbusters

Lucas said the $58 million budget was “reasonably expensive” and studios were used to movies with black casts being made for less. He was also told the studios didn’t believe there was a foreign market for the film.

The director, whose movies have made billions of dollars, said one studio’s executives didn’t even bother to turn up for the screening of Red Tails.

He told the New York Times: “Isn’t this their job? Isn’t their job at least to see movies? I’m retiring. I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.”

Another impetus for his retirement appears to have been a backlash Lucas received from fans for making changes to the Star Wars films, including introducing extra dialogue for Darth Vader.

Lucas said: “Why would I make any more, when everybody yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?”

He intends to return to making experimental, low budget art house films of the kind he created as a student.

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