View rank on IMDbPro ». George Walton Lucas, Jr. 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. However, a terrible car accident just See full bio ». Filmography by Job Trailers and Videos. Share this page:. The Rise of Will Smith. Around The Web Provided by Taboola. Projects In Development Moving Images.
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Show all 9 episodes. Show all episodes. Based on Star Wars created by. Show all 38 episodes. Show all 72 episodes. His experiences growing up in the sleepy suburb of Modesto and his early passion for cars and motor racing would eventually serve as inspiration for his Oscar-nominated low-budget phenomenon, American Graffiti Before young Lucas became obsessed with the movie camera, he wanted to be a race car driver, but a near-fatal accident in his souped-up Fiat just days before his high school graduation quickly changed his mind.
Instead, he attended community college and developed a passion for cinematography and camera tricks. Following the advice of a friend, he transferred to the University of Southern California's film school. There, he produced a short futuristic sci-fi film called Electronic Labyrinth: THX 4EB , and garnered a comfortable spot under the wing of Francis Ford Coppola, who took an active interest in unleashing new filmmaking talent.
Coppola convinced Warner Brothers to make a feature-length version of the film, and although a few critics recognized some philosophical depth behind all the technical wizardry, THX re-titled flopped terribly in its release. Although intimidated by the failure of his first film, THX , Lucas went back to work on his next project, American Graffiti.
Released in , the film featured burgeoning young talents such as Ron Howard , Richard Dreyfuss and Harrison Ford , and was recognized as a stunning portrait of listless American youth in depicting, in Lucas's own words, "a warm, secure, uninvolved life.
It earned five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Director for Lucas, and is still considered one of the most successful low budget features ever made.
Now that Lucas had won back the confidence of his supporters, he set out to make a children's Saturday morning serial that would be part fairy tale, part Flash Gordon and complete fantasy and adventure set in the imaginary frontier of outer space.
The project eventually evolved into a full-length feature entitled Star Wars. Released in May , Star Wars blew audiences away with its awe-inspiring special effects, fantastical landscapes, captivating characters the erroneous pairing of two bumbling droids providing, ironically, the most heart and comic relief and the familiar resonance of popular myth and fairy tale.
He eventually built his own moviemaking "empire" outside of the controlling influence of Hollywood in the hills of Marin Country, California. Overlapping with his work on Star Wars , Lucas developed a new adventure series featuring a tough but humorous archaeologist named Indiana Jones.
He cast Star Wars antihero Ford in the title role, and Steven Spielberg signed on as director for Raiders of the Lost Ark , the first film in the franchise. Instead of deep space, Lucas mined the past for this box office hit, in which Indiana Jones battles the Nazis over the Ark of the Covenant.
Lucas helped create the stories and worked as a producer on the two sequels that followed. After the third Indiana Jones film, however, Lucas prepared to return to the film franchise that made him world famous — Star Wars. Finally, technology was catching up with Lucas's creative vision for his famous science-fiction saga. He had seen ILM's capabilities when it was commissioned to bring the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park to horrifying life.
The progressions in technology convinced Lucas that it was time to go back to Star Wars. Lucas embarked on the development of three new prequels — beginning with the menacing Darth Vader as an innocent, gifted young boy. Through color, Lucas thus created a rigid world of absolutes for the antagonists as opposed to the natural world the protagonists live in. George Lucas explained one of the the core values of Star Wars , one of the problems of the struggle in Star Wars , is about passion against compassion; which is greed against giving and letting go.
All humans have a compassionate side and a selfish side, asserts Lucas, and the main idea is to keep the two in balance by recognizing their coexistance, reject the dominance of selfishness, and be compassionate in order for a person to do good things.
Instead, Lucas wants a society based on compassion, where every person in society is cared for and everything is done for the best of all of society. Lucas also served as a producer on the video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed , and many Expanded Universe and fan productions have one form or another of the credit "Special thanks to George Lucas.
His name was modified for Egroeg Sacul , a character paged on the Star Tours ride, and his likeness was used for a limited-edition action figure of a character called Jorg Sacul ; Sacul was the first of several Lucas action figres, including two figures a stormtrooper from The Saga Collections and Papanoida as part of The Lucas Collection , and a figure.
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George Lucas. View source. History Talk Do you like this video? Play Sound. Put it back together, right now! I'm just the sculptor setting it free. He is the first person that had digital photography, he was the first person to do completely CG characters. The whole notion of not having even a print [version of the film], of having everything be 0's and 1's, was all George. Not to mention EditDroid, which turned into Avid, Pixar was spawned out of their laboratories at Lucasfilm, so he is arguably the center of the Big Bang for everything that I'm doing.
It's building on the shoulders of what he was able to innovate. Of some aspect of it? To me, it's not the same thing as a world full of human beings. There's something gone, there's something missing. This list is incomplete. You can help Wookieepedia by expanding it. Explore all of Wookieepedia's images for this article subject. Wookieepedia has a collection of quotes related to George Lucas.
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