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He looks as if he might die. Gaunt and grim, young George Lucas paces the set of Star Wars, in Pinewood Studios near London. He and everyone else know the movie is hurtling toward chaos. His favorite toys--R2D2 and C-3P0--keep breaking. The actors are fretting because he...
Who is the George Lucas of games, the geekiest of them all? Easy. George Lucas, owner of Lucasfilm and LucasArts. The latter produced Knights of the Old Republic, a role-playing adventure set centuries before Star Wars Episode I. Knights was a critical hit, mostly because players have the freedom...
Diehard fans contain their disappointment and rate it better than "Jedi" but no "Empire," and in a different category altogether than the dreadfully scripted, poorly acted and infinitely enjoyable "Star Wars." Critics range from "crap" (The New Yorker's Anthony Lane) to a wan "up to snuff" (the Times' Janet...
But all these questions seem trivial in comparison to confusion caused by a discovery we've made in recent viewings of the movies on video: in the entire extant Star Wars trilogy--so far as we have been able to discern--Chewbacca is the only wookie.
Colangelo and Kamath had the cardboard Hans Solo translate "Wookie," the language of Solo's friend Chewbacca, with the help of lines from Star Wars over the loudspeakers. They then asked Ford to do the same.