Who is George Lucas?
George Walton Lucas, Jr. was born on 14 May 1944 in Modesto, California. George Lucas attended the University of Southern California, one of the first in the country to have a department for cinematic arts. Lucas’s roommate in college was Randal Kleiser, who went on to direct movies like Grease and The Blue Lagoon. Together, they produced a series of shorts for their college program, including an early version of THX 1138, which was George Lucas’ first feature-length film. Along his career, George Lucas became friends with several big names in the film industry, such as Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg, acting as producer and special-effects coordinator in such films as Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Labyrinth (1986), and The Land Before Time (1988). George Lucas, however, is best known as the director and writer of Star Wars. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope debuted in 1977 with rather low expectations. So low, in fact, that the studios agreed to give George Luc
Well, if the trailer for new documentary The People Vs. George Lucas, he’s a little devil and an evil marketing genius. But surely there’s more to the man that that? The documentary, to be released next year, aims to investigate the tortured, contradictory feelings Star Wars fans have for Lucas in light of the prequel trilogy and subsequent spin-offs from the movies, using the power of the internet: Paying tribute to the YouTube culture in unprecedented fashion, this groundbreaking documentary feature will utilize professional hi-definition footage and amateur homemade videos in equal amounts to craft one of the most original, entertaining, cinematic, and widely anticipated portraits in the history of the medium-the world’s first digitally democratic documentary. Chock-full of impassioned interviews, powerful musical performances, never-before-seen polaroids from the original STAR WARS continuity script, stop-motion and 3D animation, Super 8 action figure films, puppet rants and many o
