SilverWook said:

To believe Lucas had nothing to do with the creation of Star Wars is a whole new level of loathing and denial.

That's buying into the revisionist history of the franchise. Lucas wants to be seen as the father of SW but does not deserve that title. Gary Kurtz and Marcia Lucas are the real people behind SW. If Lucas had the creative control back in 1976 that he had shooting the PT there would be no franchise to talk about. It's been proven many times over in the last thirty years that Lucas was a fraud; he cares more about the marketing side of the films instead of the story. The franchise as Lucas wants us to see it is less than twenty years old, and in light of the constant changes made to these films the oldest installment of the franchise might be ATOC or ROTS!