Lucas on Life Every Day Nov-Dec 2011
Long before Lucas began making films, he yearned to be a racecar driver, and he spent most of his high school years racing on the underground circuit at fairgrounds and hanging out at garages. On June 12, , at age eighteen, while driving his souped-up Autobianchi Bianchina , another driver broadsided him, flipping over his car, nearly killing him, causing him to lose interest in racing as a career. Lucas had been planning to go to art school, and declared upon leaving home that he would be a millionaire by the age of USC was one of the earliest universities to have a school devoted to motion picture film.
He also became good friends with fellow acclaimed student filmmaker and future Indiana Jones collaborator, Steven Spielberg. Lucas was deeply influenced by the Filmic Expression course taught at the school by filmmaker Lester Novros which concentrated on the non-narrative elements of Film Form like color, light, movement, space, and time. Vorkapich taught the autonomous nature of the cinematic art form, emphasizing the unique dynamic quality of movement and kinetic energy inherent in motion pictures.
He was passionate and interested in camerawork and editing, defining himself as a filmmaker as opposed to being a director, and he loved making abstract visual films that created emotions purely through cinema. After graduating with a bachelor of fine arts in film in , he tried joining the United States Air Force as an officer, but he was immediately turned down because of his numerous speeding tickets.
He was later drafted by the Army for military service in Vietnam , but he was exempted from service after medical tests showed he had diabetes , the disease that killed his paternal grandfather. In , Lucas re-enrolled as a USC graduate student in film production. Navy students who were being taught documentary cinematography, Lucas directed the short film Electronic Labyrinth: Lucas was awarded a student scholarship by Warner Bros.
The film he chose was Finian's Rainbow which was being directed by Francis Ford Coppola , who was revered among film school students of the time as a cinema graduate who had "made it" in Hollywood. In , Lucas was one of the camera operators on the classic Rolling Stones concert film Gimme Shelter. Lucas then created his own company, Lucasfilm, Ltd.
Lucas then set his sights on adapting Flash Gordon , an adventure serial from his childhood that he fondly remembered. When he was unable to obtain the rights, he set out to write an original space adventure that would eventually become Star Wars. Despite his success with his previous film, all but one studio turned Star Wars down. It was only because Alan Ladd, Jr. Star Wars quickly became the highest-grossing film of all-time , displaced five years later by Spielberg's E. Following the release of the first Star Wars film, Lucas worked extensively as a writer and producer, including on the many Star Wars spinoffs made for film, television, and other media.
Lucas acted as executive producer for the next two Star Wars films, commissioning Irvin Kershner to direct The Empire Strikes Back , and Richard Marquand to direct Return of the Jedi , while receiving a story credit on the former and sharing a screenwriting credit with Lawrence Kasdan on the latter. Other successful projects where Lucas acted as a producer or writer in this period include Kurosawa 's Kagemusha , Lawrence Kasdan's Body Heat , Ewoks: Caravan of Courage , Ewoks: The animation studio Pixar was founded in as the Graphics Group, one third of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm.
The sale reflected Lucas' desire to stop the cash flow losses from his 7-year research projects associated with new entertainment technology tools, as well as his company's new focus on creating entertainment products rather than tools. A contributing factor was cash-flow difficulties following Lucas' divorce concurrent with the sudden dropoff in revenues from Star Wars licenses following the release of Return of the Jedi. The sound-equipped system THX Ltd. After losing much of his fortune in a divorce settlement in , Lucas had no desire to return to Star Wars , and had unofficially canceled his sequel trilogy by the time of Return of the Jedi.
When Star Wars became popular once again, in the wake of Dark Horse 's comic book line and Timothy Zahn 's trilogy of novels , Lucas realized that there was still a large audience.
His children were older, and with the explosion of CGI technology he was now considering returning to directing. By , it was announced, in Variety among other sources, that Lucas would be making the prequels.
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He began penning more to the story, indicating that the series would be a tragic one, examining Anakin Skywalker's fall to the dark side. Lucas also began to change the prequels status relative to the originals; at first they were supposed to be a "filling-in" of history tangential to the originals, but now he saw that they could form the beginning of one long story that started with Anakin's childhood and ended with his death. This was the final step towards turning the film series into a "Saga". In , to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Star Wars, Lucas returned to the original trilogy and made numerous modifications using newly available digital technology, releasing them in theaters as the Star Wars Special Edition.
For DVD releases in and Blu-ray releases in , the trilogy received further revisions to make them congruent with the prequel trilogy. The first Star Wars prequel was finished and released in as Episode I — The Phantom Menace , which would be the first film Lucas had directed in over two decades.
Following the release of the first prequel, Lucas announced that he would also be directing the next two, and began working on Episode II. Episode II — Attack of the Clones. The final prequel, Star Wars: Numerous fans and critics considered the prequels inferior to the original trilogy, [25] [26] [27] though they were box office successes nonetheless. Like the Star Wars prequels, reception was mixed, with numerous fans and critics once again considering it inferior to its predecessors.
The Clone Wars which premiered with a feature film of the same name before airing its first episode.
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The supervising director for this series was Dave Filoni , who was chosen by Lucas and closely collaborated with him on its development. The animated series also featured the last Star Wars stories on which Lucas was majorly involved. He also took over direction of reshoots while director Anthony Hemingway worked on other projects. In January , Lucas announced his retirement from producing large blockbuster films and instead re-focusing his career on smaller, independently budgeted features. In June , it was announced that producer Kathleen Kennedy , a long-term collaborator with Steven Spielberg and a producer of the Indiana Jones films, had been appointed as co-chair of Lucasfilm Ltd.
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The Force Awakens directed by J. Abrams , was released on December 18, Kathleen Kennedy executive produced, and will do so for all future Star Wars films.
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Lucas described the previous six Star Wars films as his "children" and defended his vision for them, while criticizing The Force Awakens for having a "retro feel", saying: Lucas also drew some criticism and subsequently apologized for his remark likening Disney to "white slavers". The film was produced at Skywalker Ranch. Gary Rydstrom directed the movie. Lucas originally did not specify whether the selling of Lucasfilm would affect his involvement with the film.
In October , Lucas announced his decision to not be involved in the story of the film, but would remain an executive producer. Lucas has pledged to give half of his fortune to charity as part of an effort called The Giving Pledge led by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to persuade America's richest individuals to donate their financial wealth to charities.
In , The George Lucas Educational Foundation was founded as a nonprofit operating foundation to celebrate and encourage innovation in schools. The Foundation's content is available under the brand Edutopia , in an award-winning web site, social media and via documentary films. Lucas, through his foundation, was one of the leading proponents of the E-rate program in the universal service fund , [58] which was enacted as part of the Telecommunications Act of On June 24, , Lucas testified before the United States House of Representatives subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet as the head of his Foundation to advocate for a free wireless broadband educational network.
As I start a new chapter in my life, it is gratifying that I have the opportunity to devote more time and resources to philanthropy. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D. It is the largest single donation to USC and the largest gift to a film school anywhere. They adopted a daughter, Amanda Lucas , in , [76] and divorced in Following his divorce, Lucas was in a relationship with singer Linda Ronstadt in the s.
Lucas was born and raised in a Methodist family. Lucas has come to state that his religion is " Buddhist Methodist". He resides in Marin County.
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Lucas is a major collector of the American illustrator and painter Norman Rockwell. A collection of 57 Rockwell paintings and drawings owned by Lucas and fellow Rockwell collector and film director Steven Spielberg were displayed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from July 2, to January 2, in an exhibition titled Telling Stories. MacFarlane has said that Lucasfilm was extremely helpful when the Family Guy crew wanted to parody their works. Episode III — Revenge of the Sith , about which he joked stating that, since he views the entire Star Wars series as one film, he could actually receive the award now that he had finally "gone back and finished the movie.
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In , Black returned to play Sean Boswell in Furious 7 making a cameo. In July Black had declared that in the Chris Mannix show he could not return to the franchise from the eighth installment due to his hard schedule with the NCIS: Black married Maggie O'Brien, a lawyer, in From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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