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George Walton Lucas Jr.[1](born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and philanthropist. He created the Star Warsand Indiana Jonesfranchises and founded Lucasfilm, LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magicand THX. He served as chairman of Lucasfilm before selling it to The Walt Disney Companyin 2012.[2]
Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker is the novelization of the 1977 film Star Wars, ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster, but credited to George Lucas. [ 2 ] It was first published on November 12, 1976, by Ballantine Books, several months before the release of the film. [ 1 ] In later years, it was republished under the title Star Wars ...
- Alan Dean Foster
- 1976
23 Videos. 99+ Photos. George Walton Lucas, Jr. was raised on a walnut ranch in Modesto, California. His father was a stationery store owner and he had three siblings. During his late teen years, he went to Thomas Downey High School and was very much interested in drag racing. He planned to become a professional racecar driver.
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- Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. The first true movie in the Star Wars saga, 1977’s Star Wars still holds up today as the foundation to the massive space opera Saga.
- Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, is some people’s favorite Star Wars movie, and look, I get it.
- THX 1138. THX 1138 isn’t a great film on its own two feet, but it’s a fascinating debut sci-fi film from a man who would later create quite possibly the largest sci-fi franchise of all time.
- American Graffiti. I mentioned earlier how I saw The Phantom Menace at 16, which means I was only a glimmer in my parents’ eyes when American Graffiti came out in 1973, which was the year my sister was born.
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In 1971, Lucas wanted to film an adaptation of the Flash Gordon serial, but could not obtain the rights. He began developing his own story inspired by the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs.[c] Immediately after directing American Graffiti (1973), Lucas wrote a two-page synopsis for his space opera, titled Journal of the Whills. After United Artists, Uni...
Thousands of actors were assessed in the search for the trilogy's main cast. The selected actors are considered by many viewers to have onscreen chemistry even though some of them were inexperienced, with the notable exceptions of Alec Guinness and Peter Cushing. Some, like Ford, have called the dialogue in the scripts clunky, and several lines wer...
Star Wars[b] was released on May 25, 1977; unlikely hero Luke Skywalker is drawn into a galactic conflict between the Empire and Rebel Alliance by two droids and an old Jedi Knight; he helps make one of the Rebellion's most significant victories. The film's unanticipated success led Lucas to make it the basis of an elaborate serial. With the backst...
The Star Wars trilogy, unlike science fiction that features sleek and futuristic settings, portrays the galaxy as dirty and grimy in Lucas's concept of a "used universe". This was in part inspired by the period films of Akira Kurosawa, which like the original Star Wars trilogy, often begin in medias reswithout explaining a complete backstory. Polit...
The original Star Wars film was re-released theatrically in 1978, 1979, 1981 and 1982. All three films were released on various home video formats, including LaserDisc and VHS, until 1996. The trilogy was theatrically re-released in a 1997 "Special Edition", featuring various additions and changes, some of which were met with negative reception. Th...
Critical response
The original Star Wars film was released in the summer of 1977 to critical acclaim and was a huge summer blockbuster, surpassing Jaws (1975), until 1982 when it was surpassed by E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The following year, it won six out of its eleven nominations at the 50th Academy Awards. The success of the first film led to it becoming a pop cultural phenomenon spawning countless TV spin-offs, video games, films and a multi-merchandising empire. It was then proceeded by two installments...
Accolades
In 1989, the Library of Congress selected the original Star Wars film for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry, as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The Empire Strikes Back was selected in 2010, and Return of the Jedi was selected in 2021. 35 mm reels of the 1997 Special Editions were the versions initially presented for preservation because of the difficulty of transferring from the original prints, but it was later revealed that the Library possessed...
Popular culture
The popularity of the films have generated numerous references in popular culture works from TV series such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park and Robot Chicken and films such as Clerks, Free Guy and Toy Story 2, and in the political lexicon, as in Ted Kennedy's nickname for Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. The trilogy's artistic and technological achievements have been influential on other filmmakers, including Ridley Scott, James Cameron, David Fincher, Joss Whedon, Peter...
Prequel and sequel trilogies
The success and large impact of the original Star Warstrilogy led to two more trilogies, both financially successful, with individual installments receiving mixed to positive reviews. The prequel trilogy consists of The Phantom Menace (1999), Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005), all directed by George Lucas. The prequels feature Baker, Daniels, Oz, Mayhew and McDiarmid reprising their roles, alongside Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Liam Neeson and S...
Other media
Star Wars has also been spun off into films outside of the Skywalker Saga, numerous TV spin-offs like Star Wars: The Clone Wars, The Mandalorian and other upcoming live-action series for Disney+, as well as hundreds of video games, books, comics and theme park attractions at Disneyland and Walt Disney World.
Director George Lucas Stars Richard Dreyfuss Ron Howard Paul Le Mat. 3. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. 1977 2h 1m PG. 8.6 (1.5M) Rate. 90 Metascore. Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue ...
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George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker. The creator of Star Wars, he executive-produced its first six films. Close friends with fellow filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas worked on the Indiana Jones franchise with Spielberg after meeting him through his own directorial debut, THX 1138, and the films The Rain People and Apocalypse ...
