George Lucas On Star Wars Changes
Star Wars director George Lucas has been defending his choice to tamper with the special effects on the original Episode 1 – Phantom Menace film.
The newly updated version of the film was released this week and has been met with a rather mixed bag of reviews with many fans of the franchise upset about the extent to which Lucas has tampered with the effects in the film. In particular audiences have been left upset at the decision to swap a puppet Yoda with a CGI one however Lucas has been defending himself in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
Speaking in the interview the director said that there is, ‘basically one version of Star Wars [that] keeps getting improved a little bit as we move forward… we tried to do Yoda in CGI in Episode I, but we just couldn’t get it done in time.’ He continued, ‘Changes are not unusual, I mean, most movies when they release them they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world’.
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