Star Wars editor Marcia Lucas criticizes the sequels: "You don't get the magic of Star Wars"
🐈A New Hope editor Marcia Lucas has strong words again𝔍st the Star Wars sequels

Star Wars editor Marcia Lucas has sharply crit൲icized the sequel movies.
"I like Kathleen [Kennedy, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Lucasfilm President]. I always liked her," Lucas – who was instrumental in editing A New Hope – is quoted as saying in J.W Rinzler's book Howard K🅠azanj🐽ian: A Producer's Life (H/T ).
"She was full of beans. She was really smart and really bright. Really wonderful woman. And I liked her husband, Frank. I liked them a lot. Now that she's r𝐆unning Lucasfilm and making movies, it seems to me that Kathy Kennedy and J.J. Abrams don't have a clue about Star Wars. They don't get it.
🐓"And J.J. Abrams is writing these stories – when I saw that movie where they kill Han Solo, I was furious. I was furious when they killed Han Solo. Absolutely, positively there was no rhyme or reason to it. I thought, 'You don't get the Jedi story. You don't get the magic of Star Wars. You're getting rid of Han Solo?'"
Marcia Lucas on the D꧂i𓃲sney produced Star Wars films. pic.twitter.com/MFE9f8fFpG
Harrison Ford's character was killed off in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Force Awakens, which was directed by Abrams.
Lucas continued: "And then at the end of this last one, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Last Jedi, they have Luke disintegrate. They killed Han Solo. They killed Luke Skywalker. And they don't have Princess Leia anymore. And theꦏy're spitting out movies every year. And they think it's important to appeal to a woman's audience, so now their main character is this female, who's supposed to have Jedi powers, but we don't know how she got Jedi powerꦰs, or who she is. It sucks. The storylines are terrible. Just terrible. Awful. You can quote me – 'J.J. Abrams, Kathy Kennedy – talk to me.'"
The female Jedi Lucas refers to here is Daisy Ridley's Rey, who was eventually revealed to be the granddaughter of Emperor Palpatine in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Rise of Skywalker.
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Lucas edited Star Wars and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Return of the Jedi, and worked on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Empire Strikes Back as an uncredited editor. Her work on the original Star Wars movie earned her the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, and she was married to Star Wars creator George Lucas until 1983. She has also worked on films like George Lucas's American Graffiti and THX 1138, Martin Scorsese's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Taxi Driver, New York, New York, and Ali🔯ce Doesn't Live Here Anymore, and Michael Ritchie's The Candidate.
Meanwhile, the future of the galaxy far, far away seems to lie mostly on the small screen, with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Mandalorian season 3 and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Obi-Wan Kenobi both expected to debut on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Disney Plus next yඣear, and The Book of Boba F𒉰ett arriving this December.
While you wait, check out our guide to all the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Star Wars movies and TV shows.

I'm the Deputy Entertainment Editor here at GamesRadar+, covering all things film and TV for the site's Total Film and SFX sections. I previously worked on the Disney magazines team at Immediate Media, and also wrote on the 🅷CBeebies, MEGA!, and Star Wars Galaxy titles after graduating with a BA in English.