George Lucas says a “lot of the ideas” from the original Star Wars have been lost since the sale to Disney

George Lucas says a lot of his ideas from the original Star Wars were lost after he sold Lucasfilm to Disney.

“I was the one who really knew what Star Wars was…who actually knew this world, because there’s a lot to it. The Force, for example, nobody understood the Force,” Lucas told French publication Brut in an interview at the Cannes Film Festival. “When they started other ones after I sold the company, a lot of the ideas that were in [the original] sort of got lost. But that’s the way it is. You give it up, you give it up.”