One of the eternal questions in Star Wars is how much credit should George Lucas deserve. On one hand, it’s a blatant attempt to minimize his contributions to justify the dissonance of reception between the original films and the prequels. On the other, it’s really a microcosm of filmmaking in general. All filmmaking is necessarily a collaboration. The writer and director can be the same but not predominantly, and of course they’re usually not the star as well. There’s also cinematography, art design, score, sound design, lighting, blocking, performances, special effects, editing etc etc etc. And of course the producer, who is responsible for wrangling all this to make sure things run smooth. That kills the auteur, there is no auteur, the end. But wait, there’s more. You see, filmmaking is more than just an individual story but a whole career. This is easy to overlook when the directors Lucas, Kershner and Marquand had relatively few films. What about, say, a prolific