Word: lucases
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Given all that, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that this phenomenon sprang from the imagination of a single man (even Walt Disney needed help from the Brothers Grimm). Lucas' offices, as well as many of his filmmaking facilities, are located on Skywalker Ranch, 3,000 mostly...
In person, Lucas turns out to be neither bald nor insane nor T.S. Eliot-quoting. Instead he is low-key and unpretentious, a serious but not uncheerful man who seems used to having things his way, in a manner probably not unlike a lot of other millionaire Northern California entrepreneurs...
Probably all three. He cites the non-narrative, almost abstract films he made as a student at the University of Southern California 30 years ago as touchstones for the kinds of films he'd really like to make--pure cinema--and plans to make once he's done with what...
"George is actually quite a small filmmaker," insists Rick McCallum, the producer of the Star Wars special editions as well as the prequels. "I think he's been kind of embarrassed by the huge success of both Indiana Jones and Star Wars." If so, he's an ingrate. Back in...
His company's orchestration of the special editions has been sublime. Early projections for Star Wars have it doing record-breaking business for a rerelease--possibly taking in as much as $30 million for the first three days. The original plan had been to celebrate the 20th anniversary simply by...