New Documentary for Disgruntled Star Wars Fanboys (and Fangirls)

I have a love/hate rela­tion­ship with George Lucas.  I sus­pect we all do.  On the love side he has given us mas­ter­pieces like the orig­i­nal Star Wars and Indi­ana Jones films, and on the hate side he’s shit out things like Jar Jar Binks and The King­dom of the Crys­tal Skull.

So nat­u­rally my inter­est was peaked when I heard about upcom­ing doc­u­men­tary film The Peo­ple vs. George Lucas , that “explores the unique, ambiva­lent, and some­times con­flicted rela­tion­ship that Star Wars fans, for the past thirty years, con­tinue to enjoy with the Star Wars fran­chise and its cre­ator, George Lucas.”

I don’t know if “enjoy” is the right word, but “con­flicted” is true enough.  Haven’t we all had those moments of quiet reflec­tion upon our 85th re-watch of The Empire Strikes Back where we think to our­selves how life was some­how bet­ter in the days before George “per­fected” his vision?  Anyone?

The doc­u­men­tary will voice opin­ions from fans on both sides of the Lucas love/hate dichotomy, and is cur­rently solic­it­ing contributions–in the form of self-interview video submissions–from Star Wars fans around the globe.  Some lucky fans may even end up star­ring in the film–how cool is that?  The film’s web­site has a link to a detailed sub­mis­sion guide­lines PDF (and of course a release form).

So if you’re an opin­ion­ated Star Wars fan, now’s your chance to grab a video cam­era and air your com­plaints and griev­ances and/or undy­ing love for George Lucas.