Original Star Wars director George Lucas is moving forward, and not looking back.
When Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens opens in theatres on Dec. 18, it’ll be the first installment of the sci-fi fantasy movie series that Lucas hasn’t been intimately involved in. Is the legendary director OK with that? It seems so.
“It’s a family soap opera, it’s all about generations,” said Lucas. “They decided they didn’t want to use [my] stories, they decided they were going to go do their own thing. They weren’t that keen to have me involved.”
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Lucas concedes that his stories probably wouldn’t have worked for a modern audience anyway.
“If I got in there, I would just cause trouble,” he said. “I said ‘OK, I’ll go my way and I’ll let them go their way.'”
For more from Lucas, check out the video, above.
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