Star Wars: The Force Awakens klarte ikke bare å håve inn rekordmye penger, men var også godt likt av mange anmeldere. Blant fans var mottakelsen mer blandet, og blant dem som var misfornøyde finner vi seriens skaper, George Lucas.
Lucas er skuffet over filmen, og nå har vi fått forklart hvorfor av Disneys offisielle CEO Bob Iger. For nylig har Iger skrevet en bok ved navn "The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned for 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company", hvor det spesifikke sitatet ble utplukket av CNET.
Her forklarer Iger at Lucas har kritisert filmen for å ikke ta nok kreative sjanser, og at den ikke var annerledes nok.
"In each of the films in the original trilogy, it was important to [Lucas] to present new worlds, new stories, new characters, and new technologies. In this one, he said, 'There weren't enough visual or technical leaps forward."
"He wasn't wrong, but he also wasn't appreciating the pressure we were under to give ardent fans a film that felt quintessentially Star Wars. We'd intentionally created a world that was visually and tonally connected to the earlier films, to not stray too far from what people loved and expected, and George was criticizing us for the very thing we were trying to do."
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