{"id":1865,"date":"2010-08-17T23:28:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T23:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2024-09-18T14:24:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T18:24:46","slug":"more-george-lucas-slamming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2010\/08\/17\/more-george-lucas-slamming\/","title":{"rendered":"More George Lucas Slamming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early George Lucas collaborator Gary Kurtz finally talks about why he parted ways with Lucas after <em>The Empire Strikes Back<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/herocomplex\/2010\/08\/star-wars-was-born-a-long-time-ago-but-not-all-that-far-far-away-in-1972-filmmakers-george-lucas-and-gary-kurtz-wer.html\">Did &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; become a toy story?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI could see where things were headed,\u201d Kurtz said. \u201cThe toy business began to drive the [Lucasfilm] empire. It\u2019s a shame. They make three times as much on toys as they do on films. It\u2019s natural to make decisions that protect the toy business, but that\u2019s not the best thing for making quality films.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early George Lucas collaborator Gary Kurtz finally talks about why he parted ways with Lucas after The Empire Strikes Back. Did &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; become a toy story? \u201cI could see where things were headed,\u201d Kurtz said. \u201cThe toy business began to drive the [Lucasfilm] empire. It\u2019s a shame. They make three times as much on toys as they do on films. It\u2019s natural to make decisions that protect the toy business, but that\u2019s not the best thing for making quality films.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,127],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links","tag-nostalgia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14865,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions\/14865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}