I think he’s suffering from some rare degenerative brain disease. Either that, or he’s just started watching reels while drunk.

Here’s [*Clone Wars* director Dave Filoni](http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/08/12/is-zero-the-hutt-the-first-gay-alien-in-star-wars-history/) on Lucas’s input into the *creative process* for the film:

> “Zero, Jabba’s uncle, originally spoke in Hutt-ese, like Jabba and then he had a different sluggish voice just like Jabba, and then George one day was watching it and said ‘I want him to sound like Truman Capote.’ He actually said that and we were like ‘Wow!’”

Things like this make me want to slam my head into a wall. Repeatedly. And then just keep going until I eventually find George Lucas and destroy him with my head of *steel*. I’ve been meaning to link to [this article](http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article4386319.ece) about Lucas and Spielberg and the process of *Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.* Here’s the relevant portion, straight from Lucas’s own mouth:

> “…Indiana Jones only becomes complicated when you have another two people saying ‘I want it this way’ and ‘I want it that way’, whereas, when I first did Jones, I just said, ‘We’ll do it this way’ — and that was much easier. But now I have to accommodate everybody, because they are all big, successful guys, too, so it’s a little hard on a practical level.

> “If I can come up with another idea that they like, we’ll do another. Really, with the last one, Steven wasn’t that enthusiastic. I was trying to persuade him. But now Steve is more amenable to doing another one. Yet we still have the issues about the direction we’d like to take. I’m in the future; Steven’s in the past. He’s trying to drag it back to the way they were, I’m trying to push it to a whole different place. So, still we have a sort of tension. This recent one came out of that. It’s kind of a hybrid of our own two ideas, so we’ll see where we are able to take the next one.”

Gah. *Gahhhhhhhh*. Yes, Spielberg may be in the past, but let me remind you that *the movie takes place in the fucking past*. So maybe that’s not such a bad thing. Just stop, George. Stop trying to push the envelope with CGI *gophers*. We’re not impressed any more. Just…just…let Steven and Harrison do their thing—they’re *professionals*. The problem comes when you *get your way*. A Capote-sounding *Hutt*? Are you *high*?

I had hoped that there was still good in him, but I think I’ve finally come around to the [Tim Bisley point of view](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZvqY11RN6w) (relevant portion starts at 5:13 or so).