'Star Wars' creator George Lucas finally weighs in on AI — and his comments will surprise you



Director George Lucas isn't too concerned with what audiences think.

As one of the pioneers of computer-generated imagery, Lucas says he's heard the same complaints his whole career, and he's applying that experience to artificial intelligence too.

'That's progress, it's the future.'

Galaxy brain

Lucas' core thesis is on what makes a movie a movie, and in his opinion, it isn't the technology surrounding the production that makes the story; it's the idea itself.

The 82-year-old cited many iconic directors and even those on film foundations as some of the biggest supporters and detractors of his beliefs, and in a recent interview, he focused on the latter.

"I'll never do digital," Lucas' peers tell him, because "Lawrence of Arabia" was shot with film. "And I say, 'No, it's cinema. It's the moving image. That's what it is. It's not a technology, it's an idea.'"

Lucas advanced digital graphics significantly with his company Industrial Light & Magic, which he founded all the way back in 1975. Today, Lucas sees the argument against AI as similar to those he faced for using the latest and greatest technologies in his career.

"Artificial intelligence means it’s much easier for us to make movies," Lucas told A Rabbit's Foot. "It's very much like sitting here saying, 'Well, I believe the horse and the buggy is really where it's at. These cars, they break down, they need gas, there's all kinds of problems with them and pretty soon they'll be making them into tanks, and then they'll be killing people. It’s terrible.'"

Lucas, fairly black-pilled, added, "There's nothing you can do about it."

"That's progress, it's the future."

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Jedi mind trick

Lucas described AI as something that shouldn't be used as a scapegoat either. Rather, the creator is still responsible for whatever he puts out.

"The whole idea is you're a human being, you're responsible for what you say and what you do, and if you're doing something that's illegal, you should be punished for that. Whatever you do, you should be recognized. It's just like real life."

In that same vein, Lucas assured readers that audiences don't know what they want to see in film.

Lucas cited Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Steven Spielberg as sources and friends he trusts with constructive criticism. Potential viewers, not so much.

"I don't like focus groups," Lucas said. "The audience doesn't know what they want to see."

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Jar Jar defender

However, much of the disdain seemingly comes from the reaction from studios who, when they hear the audience doesn't like a character, "take the wrong message."

"They let the audience actually make the movie," the director explained. "Of course, now they go crazy with that. Now, it's all about what the fans think. That isn't how you make the movie. You make a movie by finding someone that knows how to make movies, that has a story to tell and is passionate about it."

Lucas juxtaposed this with criticism about "Star Wars," which he said has seen significant blowback time and time again over the introduction of children's' characters.

"Oh, that's terrible. Jar Jar Binks is terrible!" Lucas said, mocking his critics. "Everyone said the same thing about R2-D2 and C-3PO. At the beginning, there was a huge push for me to get rid of C-3PO, and then in the third one, people said the same thing about Ewoks."

"We want to see an adult movie!" Lucas recalled being told.

While the downfall of the post-Lucas "Star Wars" films may be from not ignoring similar audience demands, in response to whether or not he is bothered by his later films not connecting with adults, he simply said, "Well, it's a kids' movie."

"It's always been a kids' movie."

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Amber Ruffin is the perfect political comic for our age. That’s not a compliment.

The former late-night host (does anyone remember her Peacock show?) is now the new voice of the resistance alongside Colbert and co.

Lucas wasn’t shoe-horning progressive platitudes into his movie or lecturing audiences on Jedi privilege. He cared about the franchise first and foremost.

Ruffin gained attention after she was hired and later fired from being the comic host of last month’s White House Correspondents’ Association D.C. gala. The not-so-august body realized Ruffin’s hard-left shtick wouldn’t mesh with its laughable attempt to play the “we don’t choose sides, y’all” card.

Ruffin has never been THAT funny.

Now, she’s riding that cancellation wave to accidentally remind us the WHCA got it right the second time. She’s too unhinged even for late-night TV (but not “The View”).

First, she promoted the “very fine people” hoax to smite President Donald Trump, as if everyone with a functioning brain didn’t know it’s been repeatedly debunked, even by the liberal Snopes.

Now, she’s warning us on, where else, “The View” that President Trump will keep “disappearing” people who cross him. She also suggested Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will start abducting autistic children.

Even “The View” producers must have blinked hard on that twofer. Here’s betting the show’s legal team brewed a few extra pots of joe that day ...

'Sith' happens

“Star Wars” fans once hated franchise creator George Lucas so much they made a movie about it. The 2010 documentary “The People vs. George Lucas” let fans take Lucas to the nerd woodshed. They roasted the filmmaker for replacing the original film trilogy with an “updated” version that messed with core parts of the saga.

Google “Han shot first” to get the gist of the debate. The trio of underwhelming prequels Lucas delivered added fuel to the fire.

Now? Well, after a decade of Disney-produced “Star Wars” content, some, if not all, is forgiven. The 20th anniversary rerelease of “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith” (written and directed by Lucas) made a shocking $25 million last weekend. That’s more than many new films earn in their opening frames.

Why? “Sith” was better than we remember, for starters. Plus, “woke” wasn’t even a thing back in 2005. Lucas wasn’t shoe-horning progressive platitudes into his movie or lecturing audiences on Jedi privilege. He cared about the franchise first and foremost. That’s all. Now, that’s more than enough.

Maybe, the one sequel we need is “The People vs. George Lucas 2: The Apology” ...

Off-key

Neil Young can’t stop embarrassing himself.

It’s bad enough that the former free speech warrior tried to get Joe Rogan canceled for sharing the “wrong” pandemic views on his Spotify platform. It got worse when Young ripped his music off the platform in protest and, later, quietly put it back in.

Now, Young is barking at Elon Musk’s EV company Tesla via song, and both the lyrics and the message couldn’t be more muddled.

“Come on Ford, come on GM / Come on Chrysler, let’s roll again ... China’s way ahead, they’re making clean cars,” Young sang at a recent concert. Guess he hasn’t heard about China’s affinity for not-so-clean coal plants.

Need more lyrics?

“If you’re a Democrat, taste your freedom / Get whatever you want, taste your freedom.”

Oh, and the song calls Telsa owners “fascists.”

We’ve lost David Crosby, sadly, but can’t the surviving members of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young stage an intervention?

Whoopi's whoopsie

Another day, another unhinged conspiracy on “The View.”

This time, Whoopi Goldberg got the ball rolling by suggesting President Donald Trump fixed the 2024 presidential election. Quick! Get Robert Mueller on line one! The walls are closing in!

I want to remind people that [Trump] took credit for Biden’s economy — BOOMING economy, claiming investors knew he was going to win. I think he should stop saying that because you’re going to make somebody investigate how investigators would know you were going to win. I'm just putting that out there. You know.

Hey, she’s just asking questions. And since it’s “The View,” the questions remain nuclear-grade dumb.

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"Star Wars" creator George Lucas defended the franchise from criticism that it was mostly composed of white males on Friday at the Cannes Film Festival.

The 80-year-old was at the festival to receive Palme d'Or honors on Saturday at the closing ceremony when he made the comments about the first six movies of "Star Wars."

'People are always discriminating against something.'

“They would say, ‘It’s all white men.' I'd say, it's not. Most of the people are aliens," he said, according to People magazine.

"And the idea is you’re supposed to accept people for what they are, whether they’re big and furry or whether they’re green and whatever — the idea is all people are equal," he added.

He went on to point out that his original movies only showed discrimination against robots and droids.

“And that was a way of saying, people are always discriminating against something, and sooner or later, that’s what’s going to happen,” he continued. “I mean, we’re already starting with AI, saying, ‘Well, we can’t trust those robots.'”

He cited several minority actors who were featured in the original movies including Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian and Samuel L. Jackson as Mace Windu in the prequel movies.

Lucas then pointed to the strong female characters in the franchise.

“Who do you think the heroes are in these stories? What do you think Princess Leia was? She’s the head of the rebellion," Lucas added. "She’s the one that’s taking this young kid who doesn’t know anything and this boisterous, I-know-everything guy who can’t do anything and trying to save the rebellion with these clowns."

Lucas became fabulously wealthy as a result of the lucrative deal he struck to receive merchandise royalties from the "Star Wars" movies. He later became even more fabulously wealthy when he sold the franchise to Disney in 2012 for $4.05 billion.

While many fans saw the Disney purchase as a new hope for the franchise, the subsequent trilogy of movies has angered many by dismantling some of the popular narratives of the original storyline.

'Why does everything new have to undermine what came before?'

Critics have already lined up to warn fans that the next "Star Wars" show to be released will likely have woke elements owing to far-left statements made previously by the director and other principle

“It looks like this series is going to be the worst that Disney 'Star Wars' has ever seen,” said Lauren Chen of "Pseudo-Intellectual" on Blaze Media. “Why does everything now have to be subversive? Why does everything new have to undermine what came before?”

Despite that disappointment among many fans, Disney has recently said it has made almost $12 billion from the sci-fi franchise.

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