During promotional work for the Lucasfilm production Red Tails, 67-year-old Star Wars creator George Lucas has announced his retirement from filmmaking and withdrawal from Lucasfilm, the company he created. “I’m retiring,” He told The New York Times. “I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.”

Lucas has been here before, having withdrawn from detailed involvement in Lucasfilm in the mid-1980s and expressed his desire to make smaller, personal movies, an ambition he has repeated recently. Lucas’s long-term producer Rick McCallum noted: “Red Tails will be the last blockbuster Lucas makes. Once this is finished, he’s done everything he’s ever wanted to do. He will have completed his task as a man and a filmmaker.” Lucas funded Red Tails‘ $58 million budget himself when the studios refused to back this all-black action movie.

Lucas declared there’d be no more Star Wars films, and blamed the franchise’s fans: “Why would I make any more when everybody yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?” Despite this stance, Lucas did not rule out his involvement in the already planned fifth Indiana Jones movie.

Star Wars fans needn’t mourn the end of the franchise, however. The Star Wars animated TV series The Clone Wars has been confirmed for a fifth season, while Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace is re-released in 3D in February. The long-mooted live action Star Wars television series is also waiting in the wings.

Red Tails arrives on 20 January in the US and will follow later in the UK

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