An Open letter to George Lucas

Well, as Indiana Jones hits screens today and TIME.com Hollywood reporter Rebecca Winters Keegan has just published an open letter to George Lucas that is interesting to say the least.

Dear George,

The first Star Wars movie I saw was The Empire Strikes Back, and it rocked my kindergarten brain. At one point I had a modest collection of figurines, which mysteriously disappeared in the Trail of Tears Winters Sibling Room Swap of ‘83.

Now that we’ve established my bona fides, let’s get to you, George. For the third act of your career, you’re gonna need some Jedi managerial advice. You came up with Star Wars and Indiana Jones in the ’70s. You invented all kinds of super-cool technology that revolutionized moviemaking. And now it’s time to use the force of your experience and nearly $4 billion net worth to leave Obi-Wan and Dr. Jones behind and tell a story you thought of after the Carter Administration. I know you can do it.

I’ve got an easy five-step plan:

1) Take a page from Hitchcock and hit the tube: I’m thinking a half-hour weekly sci-fi and adventure anthology series called “George Lucas Presents.” Let the snobs think you’re making pulp TV. Just like Rod Serling did on The Twilight Zone, you’ll get away with all kinds of subversion.

Source

You can read the rest of the letter at the source link above, but her main focus question was: “George, isn’t it time to move on? Don’t you have anything else left to do in your career besides recycling your old movie franchises?” I suppose that she doesn’t realize that George simply brings back these characters because we love them. They’re iconic and have actually shaped our society. Would you have geeks standing outside Best Buy with robes and lightsabers without George? No. Would you have a rise in fedora hat sales or floating cars without George? No. Okay…that last one doesn’t exist, but it will darn it and that will all be due to George. You’ll see.

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