Star Wars fans launch petition to bring back George Lucas as director

Petition: A Star Wars fans has started a campaign to bring back George Lucas
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Jennifer Ruby8 January 2016
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Star Wars fans have launched a new campaign to bring Star Wars creator George Lucas back to the franchise.

Yuri Luiz from Brazil has set up a Change.org petition calling for Disney to replace director Colin Trevorrow with Lucas.

“We have no problem with Colin Trevorrow, but he’s not the right guy to direct Star Wars Episode IX,” says Luiz.

“George Lucas as director of Episode IX would be the perfect way to end this new trilogy and make an epic farewell between the father of Star Wars and the whole universe of the galaxy far, far away.”

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Despite his enthusiasm, it seems that not many people are on board with a change in direction as just over 4000 have currently signed the petition.

Lucas has said that he is not keen on being involved in any future films after selling the rights to the franchise to Disney.

In a recent interview with Charlie Rose, Lucas joked that he had sold his “kids” to “the white slavers who take these things”.

He later apologised for the comments, saying: “I misspoke and used a very inappropriate analogy and for that I apologise.”

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