It’s amazing, and really quite sad, that nearly a decade after the release of The Phantom Menace, people are still complaining about George Lucas. Sure, he also messed up his Indiana Jones franchise last summer, but whatever, there’s nothing we can do about it except skip out on further Lucas productions. The diehards are still apparently with him enough to have gotten the Clone Wars TV series renewed, to continually dress up in Star Wars costumes for comic conventions, and to eventually even buy Fanboys when it hits DVD (the movie’s terrible $200,000 gross in its first week isn’t so much a reflection on fan interest so much as it’s the fault of The Weinstein Co.’s distinterest).
So, is there really any reason for the film The People vs. George Lucas, which is still a year away from release, to exist? Hasn’t the internet supplied plenty of documentation on the hatred of Lucas over the past ten years? Now that we have an early trailer for the film to look at, here’s what the blogosphere has to say on the doc and the issue in general:
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Sci-Fi Scanner points to The People vs. George Lucas, a documentary-in-progress about “the unique, ambivalent and sometimes conflicted relationship” between Star Wars fanboys and the franchise’s creator. The basic thrust seems to be that even people who really loved the original three films take so much issue with the Special Editions and/or the prequel trilogy, that their love is equally balanced by hate, thus turning each and every Star Wars fanboy into a tortured soul, struggling to reconcile the pleasure with the pain, etc. Which is HILARIOUS, right?
Anyway. The makers of People are looking for “Star Wars aficionados and/or notorious detractors” who are willing to unload their passion on video tape for possible inclusion in the film. More details here.
