Director Coppola: ‘It’s A Pity’ George Lucas Got Lost In ‘Star Wars’


The 76-year-old Coppola was speaking at the Marrakesh Film Festival earlier this week, where he is heading the jury at the festival’s 15th edition. It was during comments about the lack of experimentation in mainstream cinema as reported by British film website

“I think “Star Wars,” it’s a pity, because George Lucas was a very experimental crazy guy and he got lost in this big production and never got out of it,” Coppola said, according to ScreenDaily.com.
“I still hope that he made so much money

The two directors have been friends and creative partners for decades, having co-founded the independent San Francisco-based American Zoetrope Studios in the late 1960s.
The studio produced the first feature-length film Lucas made, the dystopic science fiction thriller “THX 1138” in 1971, and his breakthrough “American Graffiti” two years later. The studio also produced several of Coppola’s greatest movies — “The Godfather, Part II,” “The Conversation” and “Apocalypse Now” — in addition to films by such creative international directors as Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard and Wim Wenders.
Lucas had announced his retirement

Lucas is currently serving as a creative consultant on the “Star Wars” sequel trilogy which launches on December 18th with the anticipated release of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” directed by J.J. Abrams.
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