George Lucas has never really been the “please keep cinema exactly as it was” guy. This is the man who founded Industrial Light & Magic because the visual effects tools he needed did not exist. He pushed digital editing. He backed new filmmaking technology. He spent decades treating cinema less like a sacred machine and more like something you could take apart, rebuild, and occasionally annoy half the industry with. So when Lucas talks about AI as the future of filmmaking, it does not exactly come out of nowhere. In a new interview with A Rabbit’s Foot, Lucas says artificial intelligence “means it’s much easier for us to make movies,” before comparing resistance to AI with someone insisting the horse and buggy is still the better idea while cars are arriving anyway. His point is blunt: technology moves forward, whether people like it or not. Lucas Has Always Seen Film…
