George Lucas Totally Snubbed the 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Trailer

'Star Wars' creator George Lucas says he hasn't seen the new trailer. Photo: Getty Images

George Lucas must live somewhere amid the icy, remote Hoth system, because that’s the only way he could have possibly managed to avoid the trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

"I don’t know anything about it," Lucas told the New York Post of the trailer, which has been viewed upwards of 100 million times and inspired a legion of parodies in two weeks’ time.

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“I haven’t seen it yet.”

The billionaire-franchise mastermind, who sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012, is officially listed as a creative consultant on the J.J. Abrams-directed sequel, but evidently it’s a pretty loose title.

Lucas says he hadn’t checked out the trailer in part because “it’s not in the movie theater," he told the newspaper, adding: "I like going to the movies and watching the whole thing there. I plan to see it when it’s released."

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That would indicate that Lucas hasn’t seen much footage from the film, or at least hasn’t been involved in much of the editing.

After receiving tepid reviews for the three prequels he directed at the dawn of this century, perhaps he’s not so keen to be intimately involved in the filmmaking process this time around — or maybe he’s just busy enjoying the $4 billion that Disney paid for his company.

Watch the first 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' trailer:

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Jordan Zakarin writes for Yahoo Movies.