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Lucas Says That Power-Hungry Execs Hurt Moviemaking
Star Wars creator George Lucas has complained that Hollywood continues to operate under the "Thalberg Syndrome," a reference to Irving Thalberg, the all-powerful studio executive who virtually controlled virtually every movie made at MGM in the 1930s. In an interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper, Lucas remarked that the tendency of middle managers to interpose themselves into productions has resulted in the film industry "making hugely inefficient movies for great amounts of money and they aren't creatively very interesting. Any studio you go to, you're going to find 30 executives working on your picture."
Doesn't Lucas qualify as an Exec insofar as LFL as an organization is concerned? Hmmm....
I also find it funny how he blames middle managers for movies that "aren't creatively very interesting." So, now we know who to really blame for TPM and Howard the Duck. And all this time...
Heh heh.