One of the biggest and weirdest problems with The Phantom Menace is the age difference between Anakin, played by Jake Lloyd, who was eight years old, and Padme, played by Natalie Portman, who was double Lloyds age. and I thought it was weird that the story was about this little boy who looked like he was six years old, but then later on he’s supposed to get with this princess who looked like she was twenty years old. The amount of potential with such great characters seemed like a no-brainer on paper but, in practice, was lacking.

Her disappointment seems to stem from the lack of imagination and George Lucas not utilizing such a rich to its full potential, which resulted in a movie that’s a far cry from its predecessors. She says she didn’t think it was very good at all. Marcia Lucas was so disappointed with The Phantom Menace that she cried in her car. And I thought he had such a rich vein to mine, a rich palette to tell stories with. I cried because I didn’t think it was very good. In a new biography detailing the life of producer Howard Kazanjian, Marcia Lucas explained why she cried after seeing The Phantom Menace, saying:īut when I went to see Episode I-I had a friend who worked at ILM, who took me as a guest to a preview-I remember going out to the parking lot, sitting in my car and crying. Lucas has some thoughts about where the franchise ultimately headed with the prequel trilogy and everything wrong with it. She was a crucial part of making the original trilogy as extraordinary and groundbreaking as it. Marcia Lucas was the editor for the original Star Wars trilogy, winning an Academy Award for editing Star Wars: A New Hope.

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