"Star Wars" Director's Lucasfilm to Curtail Film Production, Focus on TV

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 5, 2006 - 4:42pm.

Los Angeles - "Star Wars" director George Lucas said on Thursday that his Lucasfilm production company will shift its focus away from movies and into developing programming for TV and other platforms, Daily Variety reported. "We don't want to make movies. We're about to get into television. As far as Lucasfilm is concerned, we've moved away from the feature film thing because it's too expensive and it's too risky," Lucas told Variety, at the groundbreaking for USC's School of Cinematic Arts, to which Lucas contributed $175 million. He added that he believes Americans are gradually abandoning the habit of going to the movies. "I don't think anything's going to be a habit anymore. I think people are going to be drawn to a certain medium in their leisure time and they're going to do it because there is a desire to do it at that particular moment in time. Everything is going to be a matter of choice. I think that's going to be a huge revolution in the industry," Lucas told Variety. Despite the announcement, Lucasfilm is still at work on films including "Indiana Jones 4" and "Red Tails."
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