Georges retirement from making big blockbuster type movies is not because of the fan base or starwars. It was because of his latest movie project "RED TAILS" He spent 28 years trying to get it developed, and no studio would pick it up. George ultimately had to fund it himself for the most part ( 58 million ). He also couldn't get the any studio execs to screen the movie, and although I haven't seen RED TAILS, I heard it sucked major ass. Story was mainly non existent, and character development was in very poor taste, and a dishonor to the real men the story is about ( The Tuskegee Airmen ). I also heard some critics call the movie racist, and the dog fights where badly envisioned from what I have heard. I don't know what kind of planes The Tuskegee Airmen where flying in WW2, but George had them flying as fast as the German jet's we're, and maneuvering like a X-wing fighter.