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Jan 29, 2024 · George Lucas and Maggie McOmie on the set of THX 1138, Lucas’ directorial debut back in 1971. The film, produced by Francis Ford Coppola, brings to us a dystopian future world where the human population is controlled by a police force of robots and subjected to drugs that subdue all emotions.
Jan 13, 2004 · George Lucas’ early life. Coming of age in Modesto, California in the early 1960s, George Lucas loved to write and considered becoming an English major until a childhood friend suggested he ...
George Walton Lucas Jr. is an American filmmaker and philanthropist. He created the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and founded Lucasfilm, LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic and THX. He served as chairman of Lucasfilm before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012. Nominated for four Academy Awards, he is one of history's most financially successful filmmakers: he directed or ...
Oct 14, 2020 · Lucas and Kurtz shopped around a 12-page treatment of Star Wars to various Hollywood studios. United Artists turned them down. So did Universal. However, 20th Century Fox, encouraged by the early ...
George Lucas began making experimental films as an undergraduate student at the University of Southern California. His 1971 award-winning student film THX-1138 was released as a feature with his long-time friend Francis Ford Coppola serving as executive producer.
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 directoral debut, THX 1138, and the films The Rain People and Apocalypse Now ...
Mar 1, 1979 · The man responsible was George Lucas. By Lynda Miles and Michael Pye. Wally Fong / AP. March 1979 Issue. Modesto is a small California town that gains its livelihood from its shops and its farms ...
