Yet aside from the aforementioned edgelord-y OpEd writers and nostalgic Gen Z-ers, Hamill may be alone in his appreciation of the prequels. In the book, Marcia Lucas, editor of the original three films and Star Wars creator George Lucas’s ex-wife, says she hated The Phantom Menace so much, that she burst into tears after attending a screening of the flick (same).
“George is, in his heart and soul, a good guy and a talented filmmaker. I wish he would’ve kept directing [other kinds of] movies,” the Oscar-winning editor recalled. “But when I went to see Episode I — I had a friend who worked at ILM, who took me as a guest to a preview — I cried. I cried because I didn’t think it was very good. And I thought he had such a rich vein to mine, a rich palette to tell stories with. He had all those characters.”
Despite having all those characters, Lucas says the actors portraying them, too, weren’t up to snuff – namely, Natalie Portman. “I thought it was weird that the story was about this little boy who looked like he was six years old, but then later on he’s supposed to get with this princess who looked like she was twenty years old. There were things I didn’t like about the casting, and things I didn’t like about the story…it was a lot of eye candy. CG.”
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