Isn't he the one who does non-union movies? That's probably why.
He tried to open up studios in Napa valley, and the locals wouldn't let him do that, so instead he went for low income housing there as revenge.
He tried to open up a digital media facility in SF and the fuckin democrats sandbagged him, so he abandoned that and went somewhere else.
He developed the digital cinema camera and the studios got together to say he was trying to kill film, then they killed film and everyone uses the camera/post production tech he helped create.
George was always ahead of the curve, and no one was left unpunished who came to his aid, even though he was nominally "on the right side of history".
He, like Roddenberry had to manipulate the executives to retain rights, and then used them to expand instead of just beat a dead horse.
He's the perfect example of a guy who wants to make films realizing that Hollywood is a layer cake of retarded executives, theater kids, art hoe students, and the prideful unions who all get in the way.
The irony is all of his ethos is about democracy, common myth, being a good person, the republic are the good guys, etc...
But in reality he is more like a King. The type of guy that is beset on all sides by pseuds who can't appreciate what he's doing.
It's so fucking funny to see that in the modern age you could see him as this Napoleonic or Trumpian figure.
Best believe when he dies every star wars or indiana jones fan will be immortalizing him as this maverick emperor of cinema while he gets thrown under the bus by browntarded leftists for "having too many white people in the OT" or "appropriating cultures in the prequels" or "racist jar jar".
His biggest problem was he was surrounded by yes man, and had no solid consigliere that could help him where his sensitive blind spots were, and it was exclusively the minutiae stuff like individual scene direction, or script refinement.
He needed a Nicholas Pileggi like Scorsese had. He needed a Neumeier like Verhoeven had.
The original Star Wars is the blueprint for American exceptionalism from the postwar period in the film sense, while the PT is the birth of a new age. All stories about the change in what Hollywood did go through him, like how the history of the 1900s goes through Hitler.
The story of making star wars is reflected in every modern american leader of any class. Hes like Howard Hughes. Whether its people doubting Trump or Musk on everything, while they land rockets on the moon or steal narco-presidents from their beds, there is this type of successful guy that will always be hated or reviled by the jealous and avaricious.
No one believed in him or what he was doing until it happened, and then they immediately went back to doubting afterward. He's a great man of film history, and a mythic hero of it. But people have no attention span for it.
There are so many things that he did that people take for granted or don't know that he did, and it was just because he wanted to make his vision real. The American dream in a nutshell.
