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Date Posted: 07:44:12 02/28/12 Tue
Author: ebloggingguy
Subject: George Lucas retires from making blockbusters

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George Lucas retires from making blockbusters

George Lucas is retiring from making blockbusters after complaining that Hollywood refused to fund his latest movie because it has a black cast.

The creator of the Star Wars films has been working on his latest venture Red Tails for 23 years, but had to finance it himself after rejections from major studios.
The film is being released in US cinemas on Friday and tells the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a pioneering group of black pilots who fought in the Second World World War.
It stars Cuba Gooding Jr and Terrence Howard, and is overseen by black director Anthony Hemingway.
Lucas, 67, said: "I figured if I could get the prints and ads paid for by the studios that they would release it. I showed it to all of them and they said 'No. We don't know how to market a movie like this'.
"It's because it's an all black movie. There's no major white roles in it at all. It's one of the first all black action pictures ever made."

Lucas said the $58 million budget was "reasonably expensive" and studios were used to movies with black casts being made for less. He was also told the studios didn't believe there was a foreign market for the film.
The director, whose movies have made billions of dollars, said one studio's executives didn't even bother to turn up for the screening of Red Tails.
He told the New York Times: "Isn't this their job? Isn't their job at least to see movies? I'm retiring. I'm moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff."
Another impetus for his retirement appears to have been a backlash Lucas received from fans for making changes to the Star Wars films, including introducing extra dialogue for Darth Vader.
Lucas said: "Why would I make any more, when everybody yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?"
He intends to return to making experimental, low budget art house films of the kind he created as a student. Main Article

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