Why Did George Lucas Do the ‘Star Wars’ Prequels?

Kathleen Kennedy, the longtime producer and now head of Lucasfilm, has a idea as to why George Lucas determined to return to his famed “Star Wars” sequence for the Prequel Trilogy after stepping away for a decade.

Kennedy, who labored with the “Star Wars” creator on the “Indiana Jones,” stated that she and Lucas spent a whole lot of time working with director Steven Spielberg on the “Indy” trilogy within the 1980s, and she or he thinks that engaged on such giant productions, mixed along with his curiosity in CGI expertise, constructed a starvation in Lucas to get again to “Star Wars.”

“I don’t suppose he ever stopped excited about whether or not he would do extra ‘Star Wars,’ and I believe what occurred throughout ‘Indy’ was that he was not on the ground directing. He was not essentially in it, as a result of it was primarily Steven,” Kennedy shared on an episode of the Disney+ sequence “Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian.”

She went on: “So, with anybody like George, and anyone who’s a filmmaker, they get antsy after a while at not being able to be on that floor telling stories, making movies, and his love of pushing the technology, obviously. We were doing a certain amount of that with each of the ‘Indiana Jones’ movies, but it wasn’t like ‘Star Wars,’ and I think that each time we would push the technology in making those movies, he got the bug to start thinking about what that might mean for ‘Star Wars.’”

The consequence was “The Phantom Menace,” “Attack of the Clones” and “Revenge of the Sith,” three movies that used computer-generated expertise extensively, together with with characters that had been as soon as designed with sensible results equivalent to Yoda. But such frequent utilization created a backlash from “Star Wars” followers that J.J. Abrams made it a degree to emphasise that he used sensible results as a lot as attainable when making “The Force Awakens.”

Watch extra of Kennedy’s dialogue of George Lucas and all issues “Star Wars” on Disney+’s “Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian” — an eight-episode sequence that goes contained in the making of Jon Favreau’s “Star Wars” spinoff present that turned a profitable launch title for Disney’s streaming service.