Man ser oftere og oftere at gamle, erfarne filminstruktører nærmest udelukkende har kritiske ord til overs for Hollywood i dag. Om det er kreative chancer, studiernes kontrol eller Marvel-film, de langer ofte ud, og George Lucas slutter sig nu til den skare.
Ved Cannes-festivalen snakkede han med franske Brut, og han blev specifikt spurgt om hvordan filmbranchen ser ud om 10 år.
"Same thing as it is now. What happens now - and it happens in streaming probably more than features, but features, it's the same thing - nobody knows what to do. The stories they're telling are just old movies. 'Let's do a sequel, let's do another version of this movie.' And it's not just in movies, but in almost everything, there's almost no original thinking. It's like, 'I saw something, let's do something like that. It's also a way that movies are sold. If you go in and say, 'I've got something that you've never seen before and you don't understand it,' it's very hard to get a deal."
Naturligvis er der undtagelser, og det belyser Lucas også, men mener du at hans kritik i brede træk er spot on?
Fotograf: Denis Makarenko