“Isn’t that your job?”: The terrible humiliation George Lucas suffered from a studio for one of his rare non-Star Wars films

Filmmaker George Lucas is known for his work on the blockbuster Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises. These franchises made Lucas one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. However, despite his decades of work in Hollywood, the filmmaker had to endure an extremely humiliating situation while trying to bring one of his rare non-Star Wars films to market.

Red Tails was a passion project for filmmaker George Lucas (source: HBO).

Lucas executive produced the 2012 biographical war drama Red Tails under his Lucasfilm moniker. The film failed to secure backing from a major studio, so Lucas financed and produced the film completely independently. However, the director was humiliated by studio executives when he tried to sell the project, and here’s what happened.

George Lucas was humiliatingly criticized by a studio executive for his non-Star Wars film

George Lucas became famous through his underrated coming-of-age drama “American Graffiti”.