There will be some who say that after the Prequel Trilogy, we shouldn’t listen to what George Lucas has to say about Star Wars, which is ridiculous. Yes, those movies don’t work at all, but you can see Lucas trying to do something new both in terms of narrative and in terms of the technology. Again, he doesn’t succeed on either front, but he didn’t simply try to rehash A New Hope when he made The Phantom Menace. By comparison, Disney and J.J. Abrams played it relatively safe with The Force Awakens because they had …