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Simon Pegg Thinks The New Star Wars Movies Are ‘Missing’ George Lucas

November 13, 2018 | Posted by Larry Csonka
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Simon Pegg recently spoke with Digital Spy, and while not a fan of the Star Wars prequels, feels that George Lucas is missing from the newer films…

On Lucas Missing From The New Films: “For all the complaining that I’d done about him in the prequels, there was something amazing about his imagination. I do feel like his voice is missing from the current ones.”

On Getting to Meet Lucas: “I sort of went to say ‘Hello!’ to him. He turned around and I saw the weariness in his eyes like, ‘Here’s another thirty-something fanboy who’s going to tell me how much I changed his life.’ He was talking to Ron Howard and I think he’d seen Shaun of the Dead ‘cos he immediately went, ‘Oh hey, Shaun of the Dead!’ and shook my hand. And George Lucas immediately changed his demeanor.”