“Evil” George Lucas creating the movies you love and cherish! “Evil” George Lucas pioneering the technology you used yourselves to restore the original theatrical versions! Fans can restore the past as good as an official company (to some extent, I understand you don’t have access to the original negatives, but you can still get pretty close).
Also. What man in his right mind celebrates the woman who divorced him? She wanted to live a quiet life for a reason, do you really think she wants to be credited as the major reason her ex-husband’s masterpiece was so successful? That seems like rubbing salt into wounds.
If we’re going to suppress art on the basis that its creator suffered relationship issues during its creation, we’re basically going to lose every film, painting, piece of music etc in existence. The Beatles’ ‘White Album’ and Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ spring to mind as obvious examples.
Secondly, Lucas didn’t create his awesome technology so that we as fans could reassemble the OT. Lucas is on the record as specifically wanting the original films to be erased from existence.
Thirdly, I can buy pretty much any movie on earth on DVD and/or Blu Ray - from Citizen Kane to the rejected 1978 Dr Strange TV pilot. But I can’t buy the film that changed my life in 1977 - one of the most important and significant movies in the history of film. Fine, that’s Lucas’ prerogative. But to have him appear at the 40th Anniversary celebrations of that 1977 film and sit there banging on about the genius of his ‘mythological motifs’ whilst simultaneously denying the very existence of the actual film is beyond appalling.