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Total Film
Entertainment
Megan Garside

Star Wars creator George Lucas says film studios nowadays care more about "what the fans think" rather than trusting filmmakers

George Lucas Star Wars.

Star Wars creator George Lucas has been around long enough to see the film industry change and shift into what it is today, and feels thta studios nowadays care more about the audience's opinion than the filmmaker's original vision.

“I don’t like focus groups,” said Lucas in an interview with A Rabbit's Foot. "The audience doesn’t know what they want to see. If they don’t like a character, that’s interesting, and as a filmmaker I want to find out why. But when the studios hear that, they take the wrong message."

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