A deepfaked George Lucas reacts to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailer

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

The final trailer for STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER was released earlier this week, and just like clockwork, thousands of videos were released of fans reacting to the trailer, but what does franchise creator George Lucas think of the new film? Thankfully, the good folks at Collider came through with the answer in a rather hilarious video which finds George Lucas (brought to life by Josh Robert Thompson and the magic of deepfake) giving his honest opinions on the new trailer. "I can actually feel my life essence draining from me as I watch this," Lucas mutters. Check it out above.

As for what the real George Lucas thinks of THE RISE OF SKYWALKER, we may never know, but Disney CEO Bob Iger's recently published memoir made it clear that Lucas felt betrayed by the direction Disney chose to take the Sequel Trilogy.

George immediately got upset as they began to describe the plot and it dawned on him that we weren’t using one of the stories he submitted during the negotiations. George knew we weren’t contractually bound to anything, but he thought that our buying the story treatments was a tacit promise that we’d follow them, and he was disappointed that his story was being discarded. I’d been so careful since our first conversation not to mislead him in any way, and I didn’t think I had now, but I could have handled it better… George felt betrayed, and while this whole process would never have been easy for him, we’d gotten off to an unnecessarily rocky start.

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, Lupita Nyong'o, Kelly Marie Tran, Naomi Ackie, Keri Russell, Billie Lourd, Richard E. Grant, and Joonas Suotamo, in addition to franchise veterans Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, and Ian McDiarmid. STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER will hit theaters on December 20, 2019.