The People vs. George Lucas is a 2010 documentary comedy film directed by Swiss director Alexandre O. Philippe. It 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, mainly taken from the 2010 online video Star Wars Uncut, which were submitted via the film's site. Interviewees include a variety of figures such as Neil Gaiman, Ian Freer, MC Frontalot and Gary Kurtz. Lucas 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. It was released on DVD on October 25, 2011. In June 2014, it was reported that a sequel was in development though as of 2022 it has not been released. Background and contents The film begins with a brief history of Lucas' career leading up to the release of Star Wars in 1977. The rest of the film is structured by inter-cutting interviews with many different fans, academics, film critics, former colleagues of Lucas, well-known writers in the science fiction/fantasy genre and others. The narrative of the film shows the complex relationship between Lucas and his fans, as well as how and why Star Wars achieved its mass appeal. Director Alexandre Philippe, a lifetime Star Wars fan from his early childhood, said that the film was not meant to be one-sided against Lucas, although the title has often created that interpretation. He instead aimed at exploring to what extent the Star Wars franchise is controlled by Lucas versus something morally held by the public. He felt that Lucas was a relatively talented director and an "ideas man," based on the original Star Wars trilogy, THX 1138 (1971) and American Graffiti (1973). However, he disliked the changes made by Lucas in re-releases of the original trilogy as well as the prequel trilogy. Philippe stated that, to his knowledge, Lucas had never seen the documentary, but that he would love to hold a private screening at Skywalker Ranch. Critical reception On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes the film has a rating of 72%, based