^ I have been seeing this story making the rounds in more than a few outlets today …seems like a smear campaign ahead of the new movie to me …I mean ,this is really old news as evidenced by interviews with Lucas as far back as early 2016 …seems this news from back in May of this year is being swept under the rug …https://www.wired.com/story/cantina-talk-84/?fbclid=IwAR1aw6pDEn60syzakPjFtbeX353nOQ2jBhbyzFyNqadi3rosPmtjqVI-wEc

and George’s criticisms of The Force Awakens mentioned in the article you posted are ironically , the same criticisms that his old friend and long time collaborator , producer Gary Kurtz had about Return Of The Jedi …https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM7mZ0OwFfE