The People vs. George Lucas

The People vs. George Lucas is a 2010 documentary/comedy film which explores the issues of filmmaking and fanaticism pertaining to the Star Wars franchise, and its creator, George Lucas. The film combines filmmaker and celebrity interviews with fan films which were submitted via the film's site. Interviewees include Neil Gaiman, MC Frontalot, and Gary Kurtz. Lucas himself appears frequently in archival footage but is never interviewed directly. The film discusses the extent to which the Star Wars franchise is an artistic creation of Lucas and subject to his vision versus a social phenomenon that belongs to the general public of fans and their participatory/remix culture. The film is dedicated to interviewee Jason Nicholl, a blogger at nukethefridge.com who died before the film's release. The DVD was released on October 25, 2011. Director Alexandre Philippe, a lifetime Star Wars fan from his early childhood, has said that the film was not meant to be one sided against Lucas, although...