{"id":2042557,"date":"2026-07-14T11:33:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2042557"},"modified":"2026-07-14T11:33:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:33:55","slug":"now-its-all-about-what-the-fans-think-star-wars-creator-george-lucas-says-hollywood-takes-the-wrong-message-from-focus-groups-and-let-the-audience-actually-make-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2042557","title":{"rendered":"‘Now, It’s All About What the Fans Think’ \u2014 Star Wars Creator George Lucas Says Hollywood Takes the Wrong Message From Focus Groups and ‘Let the Audience Actually Make the Movie’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Legendary Star Wars creator George Lucas has expressed his dissatisfaction with focus groups, insisting the audience \u201cdoesn\u2019t know what they want to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Lucas, who stepped away from Star Wars after selling Lucasfilm to Disney for $4 billion in 2012, told A Rabbit\u2019s Foot<\/a> that Hollywood studios now take the wrong message from focus groups, and let the audience \u201cactually make the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t like focus groups,\u201d Lucas declared. \u201cThe audience doesn\u2019t know what they want to see. If they don\u2019t like a character, that\u2019s interesting, and as a filmmaker I want to find out why. But when the studios hear that, they take the wrong message. They let the audience actually make the movie. Of course, now they go crazy with that. Now, it\u2019s all about what the fans think. That isn\u2019t how you make the movie. You make a movie by finding someone that knows how to make movies, that has a story to tell and is passionate about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Of course, the 82-year-old Lucas has experience when it comes to audience dissatisfaction with a particular character. Star Wars prequel character Jar Jar Binks suffered a backlash from core fans \u2014 something he has repeatedly dismissed in interviews by insisting Star Wars is and always has been a kid\u2019s movie.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe critics and the fans who were 10-years-old when they saw the first one and 13 when they saw the second one complained that they didn\u2019t want to see a children\u2019s film,\u201d Lucas told A Rabbit\u2019s Foot, echoing comments he’s made about his prequel decisions in the past. \u201c’Oh, that\u2019s terrible. Jar Jar Binks is terrible!’ Everyone said the same thing about R2-D2 and C-3PO. At the beginning there was a huge push for me to get rid of C-3PO, and then in the third one [Return of the Jedi (1983)] people said the same thing about Ewoks. \u2018What are you thinking? Get rid of these teddy bears, we want to see an adult movie!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first time Lucas has criticized Hollywood. In 2024, he said studios lacked imagination<\/a>, and accused them of \u201cno original thinking.\u201d He\u2019s also had a few things to say about his beloved franchise in the Disney era, suggesting Star Wars\u2019 new bosses got a lot wrong with the Sequel Trilogy<\/u><\/a>. \u201cI was the one who really knew what Star Wars was,\u201d he said, \u201c… who actually knew this world, because there\u2019s a lot to it. The Force, for example, nobody understood the Force. When they started other ones after I sold the company, a lot of the ideas that were in [the original] sort of got lost. But that\u2019s the way it is. You give it up, you give it up.\u201d <\/p>\n