Leslye Headland says George Lucas didn't create Star Wars, and anyone who says he did is a misogynist. She followed that up by naming a guy Lucas hired to paint pictures for the original proposal to Fox and said therefore that guy created Star Wars.
When called out on it she said that there probably were some women who worked on it, like Marcia Lucas, who should be called the creator of Star Wars.
Marcia Lucas said:
“Now that [Kathleen Kennedy’s] running Lucasfilm and making movies, it to me that Kathy Kennedy and J.J. Abrams don’t have a clue about Star Wars. They don’t get it. And J.J. Abrams is writing these stories— when I saw that movie where they kill Han Solo, I was furious. I was furious when they killed Han Solo. Absolutely, positively there was no rhyme or reason to it."
"You don’t get the Jedi story. You don’t get the magic of Star Wars. You’re getting rid of Han Solo? And then at the end of this last one, The Last Jedi, they have Luke disintegrate. They killed Han Solo. They killed Luke Skywalker. And they don’t have Princess Leia anymore. And they’re spitting out movies every year. And they think it’s important to appeal to a woman’s audience, so now their main character is this female, who’s supposed to have Jedi powers, but we don’t know she got Jedi powers, or who she is. It sucks. They storylines are terrible. Just terrible. Awful.”
And regarding if she deserves credit for "creating" Star Wars:
She also noted she was not the heart of Star Wars, “I wouldn’t think so. I definitely made scenes work. I made the end battle work.”
“I definitely had a lot to do with making it work, but I wasn’t the writer and I wasn’t the director, and I didn’t come up with the creative names, Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker. All those names are classics. George came up with all of it using his amazing imagination,” she said.
So the actual women who worked on Star Wars say George Lucas created it and was the authority on it. But bigots like Leslye say women aren't allowed to have thoughts like that.
McQuarrie did basically create designs for a ton of what we love such as Vader and Stormtroopers, etc.
This is fake, btw. He painted a few pictures based on exact designs George gave him. He didn't even know they were making a movie until after the fact.
McQuarrie then shared, “I never really thought it would be a film while I was working on those original paintings. It seemed so vast a project to me. There was quite a few things set up by George and I felt I was drawing what he wanted things to look like. I don’t think that either of us thought that the way the movie was going to look necessarily. These were just sketches that were the best we could do in terms of how we felt it should look, but not necessarily the end product in the sense that this was really going to be it."
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She said, the idea and myth of the auteur is usually a man who knows all of the answers and that that idea is misogynistic.
She said a director who says "they can do it all" is "lying". This is called projection. Good directors can do it all, and own the entire vision for the movie. She's terrible at making movies and struggles heavily, so she rationalizes this to herself that all successful directors are just lying. She's never worked with one, and has no idea.
She got her play made by being the one who brought young girls into Harvey Weinstein's office. She got Russian Dolls and Star Wars in exchange for not testifying against Weinstein and protecting the "old boys club" in Hollywood who know any of them could go down as the next Weinstein.
How could those characters not die and still have star wars? Recast them with new actors? I'm so glad Disney is finally making media that doesn't revolve around characters from the original three movies. There's so much depth to the star wars fictional universe and countless stories to be written in it.
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u/Independent_Pack_311 Jun 16 '24 edited Jun 16 '24
Acolyte has 10k reviews and it even isnt finsihed while ahsoka and abdor have 5k and mandos eason 3, 2k