In an interview with A Rabbit's Foot that circulated around July 14, 2026, George Lucas came out firmly in favor of AI in filmmaking, framing it as unavoidable progress. He compared the backlash to the early fear of automobiles and the shift from horse-and-buggy to cars, arguing that AI makes movies "much easier" to make and that there's "nothing you can do about it." He also suggested AI can help police its own harms — flagging and tracing fabricated content back to its origin. In the same conversation he took aim at Hollywood's reliance on test screenings and focus groups, saying studios take the wrong lesson from audience feedback and let viewers effectively make the movie. He trusts creative input only from longtime peers like Scorsese, Coppola, and Spielberg. Coming from the filmmaker who spent decades pushing the technical frontier of cinema, the endorsement lands as a notable establishment counterweight to the industry's AI anxiety.