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In the case of Star Wars, Holst's "The Planets" had been used in film, television, and even radio as soundtracks to space-related media; Williams knew that, and composed accordingly. As George Lucas was filming the original Star Wars, he used the work of Wagner and Holst as a...
Those of you who watch 60 Minutes will have seen Lesley Stahl's interview with George Lucas as well as several short clips from the film. You will have noted, perhaps, Lucas's obsession with detail and his insistence on Getting Everything Right. Evidently he has succeeded--at least in...
Any good Star Wars fan knows the story of how George Lucas was turned down by countless studios before he was able to convince 20th Century Fox to take on what was, by almost all accounts, an outrageous project. And who could blame all those cautious studio executives who passed...
Lucas had little going for him. When he started looking for a studio to back his Star Wars project, he was a fledgling director with only two other movies under his belt--a dismal and poorly received artsy sci-fi film called THX 1138 and American Graffiti, a well-made...
The amazing thing is that Lucas found an audience for his adolescent fantasies put to life, an audience bigger than any ever seen before by a movie studio. Suddenly, corporate mouths began to water. Lucas' space epic had brought to light a mass of consumers hitherto untouched (at least as...