$4 billion reasons
$4 billion is still $4 billion.
They paid Lucas $4 billion and then they gotta make the movies they way he wants them too. They was probably laughing at the audacity of it all.
They used the formula that would maximize
1. Ticket sales and more importantly
2. Merchandise sales.
You could tell the set pieces, characters, props and cGI was designed specifically to sell merchandise.
and they ruined the franchise in the process lmao
only an idiot would think it would be a good idea to deviate from george's vision, he gave them the outline, the fans what george's ideas they just don't want him to direct, it was a slam dunk, and the botched it, everything you posted is not what happened in reality
it was pure arrogance, they thought they could do something better than george
just like Rian Johnson's arrogance, thought he could out do Abbrams, and said fukk what he did in the first movie, I'm throw all that out and show them I AM THE GENIUS
This is how the hacks are in hollywood I been out there, they all think they are THE GENIUS, and they know what it is best, they hated star wars and felt they could do it better and understood the fans better, etc, that's what happened