The force is wrong with this one.
“Star Wars” creator George Lucas grew irritated enough to rip the ears off a gundark Monday when a horde of autograph seekers pestered him to sign their photos as they crowded around him in a Beverly Hills alley.
“I’m not going to keep doing that, guys,” Lucas said in a video published by TMZ. “This is $200 a signature so why don’t you just go out and get a job.”
Lucas stopped to sign items for the signature hounds but appeared to grow as annoyed as a Tusken Raider when one seeker shoved multiple pictures in front of him as he walked.
“These people are here to make money,” he said. “They’re not fans. They don’t care. They just want to make money.”
He became visibly more annoyed as time wore on but didn’t stop signing photos even as he began to complain about fans using his signature to make the Kessel Run to the bank.
At least he didn’t rip off their arms, as Wookiees are known to do.
Lucas added during the conversation with the TMZ cameraman that he doesn’t have any advice for Ron Howard, who recently took over as director for the still-untitled Han Solo movie, but said he expects him to do a good job in his debut in a galaxy far, far away.
His answer was similarly short when asked how he felt this week’s announcement that Mark Hamill — who plays Luke Skywalker in the “Star Wars” movies — will finally get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
“I think that’s fine,” said Lucas, who does not have a star himself.
Lucas created each of the first six “Star Wars” movies before selling his Lucasfilm studio — and thus the rights to the “Star Wars” franchise — to Disney for more than $4 billion in 2012.
