{"id":7790,"date":"2012-01-18T02:01:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T07:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=7790"},"modified":"2012-01-18T02:01:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T07:01:27","slug":"george-lucas-retiring-from-major-budget-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/george-lucas-retiring-from-major-budget-films\/","title":{"rendered":"George Lucas Retiring From Major Budget Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/RTR2DVUB_jpg_800x1200_sharpen_q95.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7791\" title=\"RTR2DVUB_jpg_800x1200_sharpen_q95\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/RTR2DVUB_jpg_800x1200_sharpen_q95.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/RTR2DVUB_jpg_800x1200_sharpen_q95.jpeg 800w, http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/RTR2DVUB_jpg_800x1200_sharpen_q95-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After releasing his latest major motion picture, Red Tails, George Lucas will be retiring as a director or major budget blockbuster films. He will be taking a que from close friend Francis Ford Coppola, and will focus on smaller personal project films.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m retiring\u2026 I\u2019m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.\u201d says Lucas.<\/p>\n<p>His long time friend and producer Rick McCallum added \u201cOnce Red Tails is finished, he\u2019s done everything he\u2019s ever wanted to do\u2026 He will have completed his task as a man and a filmmaker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lucas has been steadily decreasing his work load over the last few years. Most of his recent work has been in re-editing the Star Wars films once again. Many have criticized Lucas for his alterations to Star Wars and have called for him to leave the profession for a while and leave his work alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After releasing his latest major motion picture, Red Tails, George Lucas will be retiring as a director or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7792,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7790\/revisions\/7792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}