Lucas was even more prophetic. In the same year that the World Wide Web was first invented, the architect of Star Wars essentially anticipated the world of streaming movies, and how it would change the theatrical landscape forever, telling Ebert, “I think the marketplace will shift dramatically. I think certain kinds of movies will be made directly for the home and certain kinds of movies will be made for theater presentation . . . the larger, more spectacular ones will end up in the theater and the more personal ones will end up on the screen.”
