From what I can tell, the falling out stems from George Lucas believing that Disney would use his ideas for the third Star Wars trilogy as part of their $4 billion deal to buy out LucasFilms.
Instead, with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Disney decided to give a nod to the classic Star Wars and make a movie that fans wanted. Lucas didn't think doing something that had more or less been done before was the best thing to do. He told an interviewer that he always tried to do something new, and felt that's what Disney should have done.
As for Disney's part in this, they would probably prefer Lucas not do those kinds of interviews. Especially when he's using phrasing like selling out to white slave traders, and the like. He has since apologized for those remarks.
I'm not sure just how much involvement he has with the current movies, which probably doesn't sit well since they would not exist if it weren't for him. He has become the movie maker that everyone loves to hate. I for one believe that's a disservice to what he has been able to accomplish, which is to be among the very few who were able to bring Science Fiction movies into the mainstream.
There is plenty of info regarding how bad a dialogue writer Lucas is, how bad a director he is, and how bad the prequel trilogy was. You can see that when he is left alone without a lot of collaboration that the resultant work does suffer. For the original trilogy, there were other directors, and other writers. For the prequels, it was basically all him, and CGI.
That said, Star Wars is still among the most beloved movie franchises of all time. Fans don't always get what they want, and that will go for Disney, too, but hopefully, there will still be enough compelling stories and characters to keep Star Wars moving forward for another generation of fans.
From what I can tell, the falling out stems from George Lucas believing that Disney would use his ideas for the third Star Wars trilogy as part of their $4 billion deal to buy out LucasFilms.
Instead, with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Disney decided to give a nod to the classic Star Wars and make a movie that fans wanted. Lucas didn't think doing something that had more or less been done before was the best thing to do. He told an interviewer that he always tried to do something new, and felt that's what Disney should have done.
As for Disney's part in this, they would probably prefer Lucas not do those kinds of interviews. Especially when he's using phrasing like selling out to white slave traders, and the like. He has since apologized for those remarks.
I'm not sure just how much involvement he has with the current movies, which probably doesn't sit well since they would not exist if it weren't for him. He has become the movie maker that everyone loves to hate. I for one believe that's a disservice to what he has been able to accomplish, which is to be among the very few who were able to bring Science Fiction movies into the mainstream.
There is plenty of info regarding how bad a dialogue writer Lucas is, how bad a director he is, and how bad the prequel trilogy was. You can see that when he is left alone without a lot of collaboration that the resultant work does suffer. For the original trilogy, there were other directors, and other writers. For the prequels, it was basically all him, and CGI.
That said, Star Wars is still among the most beloved movie franchises of all time. Fans don't always get what they want, and that will go for Disney, too, but hopefully, there will still be enough compelling stories and characters to keep Star Wars moving forward for another generation of fans.