he is the American film industry’s most
financially independent director
producer and screenwriter welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be taking
a look at George Lucas the force behind
Star Wars I love all the movies I’ve
made I love watching them I’ve never run
tired of them and thank you guys for
that because we call that the true curse
of filmmaking born on May 14 1944 in
Modesto California George Walton Lucas
jr. grew up with a deep-seated passion
for comics television serials and car
racing his original plan was to become a
professional racecar driver however a
near-fatal accident in high school
convinced him to shift his focus as a
result he enrolled at the University of
Southern California’s School of
Cinematic Arts during that time he
developed an unshakable passion for
cinema and became good friends with
another promising young filmmaker Steven
Spielberg following his graduation in
1966 he crafted an award-winning sci-fi
film short that later became the
full-length feature thx 1138 he did this
with the help of Francis Ford Coppola
whom he befriended during a warner
brothers scholarship where he observed
the making of Finian’s Rainbow however
THX’s artistic and non-conventional
style
resulted in a box-office failure that
caused Lucas to very carefully plan his
next feature American Graffiti
fortunately the blockbuster
coming-of-age comedy succeeded at the
box office and successfully showcased
Lucas’s long obsession with cruising and
rock and roll man what’s that supposed
to be sort of a cross between
it’s yellow and puke green a this way
you call that a paint job but it’s
pretty ugly I bet you get to sneak up on
the post-acute and will air in your tire
adjusting to life as a millionaire Luke
has spent the next four years creating
his own production house Lucasfilm it
was with this company that he was able
to direct his greatest masterpiece Star
Wars in 1977 based on his love of old
television serials fairy tales and
ancient mythology the sci-fi epic
redefined the genre and broke all
established box-office records
Lucas then wrote an executive produced
it’s two sequels opting to have others
direct them he then partnered with
Steven Spielberg
to pen the story and produce not one but
three Indiana Jones adventures
astonishingly that series went on to
have a similar impact at the box office
in pop culture and on the adventure
genre meanwhile Lucas’s media company
grew into five divisions that would
provide premium services for Hollywood
at every level of production this in
addition to his forward-thinking
decision to negotiate ownership of the
merchandising rights to Star Wars made
Lucas one of the richest and most
powerful players in the film industry
while fans waited for yet another romp
in a galaxy far far away
Lucas dabbled in other projects in 1986
he served as executive producer on the
film labyrinth and he later created the
television series the young Indiana
Jones Chronicles in 1994 Lucas began
work on the screenplay for the first of
three Star Wars prequels in an attempt
to fulfill the dreams of longtime fans
1999’s The Phantom Menace was the first
film he personally directed in over two
decades however this fact coupled with
unmanageable hype led to intense
critical backlash so if I’m on paint my
house green even if everyone else thinks
it should be red guess what I’m gonna
paint at Jar Jar
despite this all three prequels
dominated the box office and even
spurred a spin-off animated film and
cartoon series based on the Clone Wars
on which Lucas serves as executive
producer after this he teamed up again
with Spielberg to bring the Indiana
Jones franchise back to life with its
fourth installment meanwhile he was
readying a live-action Star Wars series
that would take place between his two
established trilogies
kindling his love for pieces set in the
past Lukas also wrote the screenplay for
the film Red Tails a story centered on
combat pilots in world war ii as both
the most revered sci-fi visionary and
the most heavily criticized filmmaker in
recent memory george lucas remains the
most powerful independent media mogul in
hollywood
financially independent director
producer and screenwriter welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be taking
a look at George Lucas the force behind
Star Wars I love all the movies I’ve
made I love watching them I’ve never run
tired of them and thank you guys for
that because we call that the true curse
of filmmaking born on May 14 1944 in
Modesto California George Walton Lucas
jr. grew up with a deep-seated passion
for comics television serials and car
racing his original plan was to become a
professional racecar driver however a
near-fatal accident in high school
convinced him to shift his focus as a
result he enrolled at the University of
Southern California’s School of
Cinematic Arts during that time he
developed an unshakable passion for
cinema and became good friends with
another promising young filmmaker Steven
Spielberg following his graduation in
1966 he crafted an award-winning sci-fi
film short that later became the
full-length feature thx 1138 he did this
with the help of Francis Ford Coppola
whom he befriended during a warner
brothers scholarship where he observed
the making of Finian’s Rainbow however
THX’s artistic and non-conventional
style
resulted in a box-office failure that
caused Lucas to very carefully plan his
next feature American Graffiti
fortunately the blockbuster
coming-of-age comedy succeeded at the
box office and successfully showcased
Lucas’s long obsession with cruising and
rock and roll man what’s that supposed
to be sort of a cross between
it’s yellow and puke green a this way
you call that a paint job but it’s
pretty ugly I bet you get to sneak up on
the post-acute and will air in your tire
adjusting to life as a millionaire Luke
has spent the next four years creating
his own production house Lucasfilm it
was with this company that he was able
to direct his greatest masterpiece Star
Wars in 1977 based on his love of old
television serials fairy tales and
ancient mythology the sci-fi epic
redefined the genre and broke all
established box-office records
Lucas then wrote an executive produced
it’s two sequels opting to have others
direct them he then partnered with
Steven Spielberg
to pen the story and produce not one but
three Indiana Jones adventures
astonishingly that series went on to
have a similar impact at the box office
in pop culture and on the adventure
genre meanwhile Lucas’s media company
grew into five divisions that would
provide premium services for Hollywood
at every level of production this in
addition to his forward-thinking
decision to negotiate ownership of the
merchandising rights to Star Wars made
Lucas one of the richest and most
powerful players in the film industry
while fans waited for yet another romp
in a galaxy far far away
Lucas dabbled in other projects in 1986
he served as executive producer on the
film labyrinth and he later created the
television series the young Indiana
Jones Chronicles in 1994 Lucas began
work on the screenplay for the first of
three Star Wars prequels in an attempt
to fulfill the dreams of longtime fans
1999’s The Phantom Menace was the first
film he personally directed in over two
decades however this fact coupled with
unmanageable hype led to intense
critical backlash so if I’m on paint my
house green even if everyone else thinks
it should be red guess what I’m gonna
paint at Jar Jar
despite this all three prequels
dominated the box office and even
spurred a spin-off animated film and
cartoon series based on the Clone Wars
on which Lucas serves as executive
producer after this he teamed up again
with Spielberg to bring the Indiana
Jones franchise back to life with its
fourth installment meanwhile he was
readying a live-action Star Wars series
that would take place between his two
established trilogies
kindling his love for pieces set in the
past Lukas also wrote the screenplay for
the film Red Tails a story centered on
combat pilots in world war ii as both
the most revered sci-fi visionary and
the most heavily criticized filmmaker in
recent memory george lucas remains the
most powerful independent media mogul in
hollywood
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