BW’s Saturday Article Link> George Lucas Defends Diversity In HIS Star Wars

While defenders and “creators” of DisneyFilm’s Star Wars products say that their Star Wars is more diverse than the originals because they put more emphasis on race and gender (and not enough on plot and storytelling, but we’ll apparently ignore that), George Lucas defending his characters at the Cannes Film Festival. In the interview where he received an award, Lucas pointed out not only that women and people of color were already there, but that aliens were as well…and despite all the comments about how racist the Empire is (which wasn’t addressed in the Variety piece), the good guys totally accept everyone…except the droids of course.