Lucas attended Thomas Downey High School, where he was a student at best indifferent, and dreamed of becoming a professional race car driver. A dream that soon ended June 12, 1962, when he crashed his Bianchini. The car was cut from behind while trying to turn left into his path. The car rolled, harness racing, which had installed broken, and was thrown from the car. The harness has not been broken and Lucas should not have said it would probably have been crushed to death in the steering when the car was destroyed in Walnut Tree. (The effect of the strength of tree roots).
During his recovery, Lucas re-evaluate his life and decided to go to college. He enrolled at Modesto Junior College where she graduated from AA, and then transferred to the University of Southern California 's Film and Television. USC is one of the first universities to have a school dedicated to film studies. There are a number of short films, including an early version of THX 1138 (the full title was "Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB"), who later became his first feature film.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in film in 1966, drifting a little ', trying to figure out what to do next. He tried to join the Air Force as an officer, but was rejected because of his numerous speeding tickets. Later the army was drawn up, but tests showed he had diabetes, which killed his paternal grandfather. Lucas was prescribed medication and the disease does not seem to need insulin. In 1967, Lucas re-enrolled graduate student in film production from USC.
Eventually, he founded the studio American Zoetrope with Francis Ford Coppola, in hopes of creating an environment of freedom, the filmmakers directly outside the perceived oppressive control of the Hollywood system study. Since the economic success of his films American Graffiti (1973) and Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977), Lucas was able to create his own studio, Lucasfilm, the home of Marin County in Northern California. Skywalker Sound and Industrial Light & Magic, the subdivisions of the sound and visual effects of Lucasfilm, respectively, is now respected companies in their field. Lucasfilm Games, later renamed LucasArts, is highly regarded for many years in the gaming industry.
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is considered by some as the first "high concept" film, although others feel the first was Steven Spielberg's Jaws, released two years ago, Lucas and Spielberg were good friends. for some time and eventually worked together on several films, including the first Indiana Jones vehicle, Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981.
Return is based on Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope turned out to be one of the most successful film of all time. During the filming of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Lucas waived before the Director of the payment and has negotiated the rights to license the rights that we thought study and almost worthless. This decision earned him hundreds of millions of dollars, when he was able to benefit directly from all the licensed games, toys and collectibles created by the franchise. In 2004, Forbes Magazine estimated Lucas 'personal wealth' is $ 3,000,000,000. In 2005 Forbes.com estimated income from all life on the Star Wars franchise for almost 20 billion dollars.
Lucas was fined Directors Guild of America, to refuse to comply with the standard title sequence in his Star Wars films. After paying the fine, he left the guild. This task is difficult for him to find a leader with some of his later projects. According to some, his friend Spielberg wanted to direct some of the latest Star Wars movie, but a member of the guild Spielberg may have been able to do so. Spielberg has repeatedly stated that Lucas consciously did not give him direct any Star Wars movie, even if Spielberg wanted. Other directors Lucas to help him was David Lynch and David Cronenberg, both down.
3. October 1994, Lucas began writing the three Star Wars prequels, and November 1 of that year he left the daily operation of his business and began filming the end of the prequel sabbatical.
American Film Institute awarded Lucas its Lifetime Achievement Award for 2005. He received the award June 9, 2005. [1]
5. June 2005, Lucas was named the 100 "Greatest American" by the Discovery Channel.
In 1969, Lucas married editor Marcia Lou Griffin, who won an Oscar for his work on the original film (the fourth) Star Wars. They adopted a daughter, Amanda, in 1981 and divorced in 1983. Lucas has since adopted two more children: Katie, born in 1988, and Jett, born in 1993. His three sons have appeared in the prequels.
In 2005, Lucas gave $ 1 million to help build the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial on the National Mall in Washington DC to commemorate American civil rights Martin Luther King Jr.. George Walton Lucas was born in Modesto, California. His father, George Walton Lucas, Sr., was a stationery store and owner of a small walnut orchard was mainly due to British and Swiss heritage. His mother, Eleanor Dorothy Bomberger Lucas, was a member of a prominent Modesto family (one of his cousins is the mother of former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman) and was mostly German and Scottish and Irish heritage.
During his recovery, Lucas re-evaluate his life and decided to go to college. He enrolled at Modesto Junior College where she graduated from AA, and then transferred to the University of Southern California 's Film and Television. USC is one of the first universities to have a school dedicated to film studies. There are a number of short films, including an early version of THX 1138 (the full title was "Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB"), who later became his first feature film.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in film in 1966, drifting a little ', trying to figure out what to do next. He tried to join the Air Force as an officer, but was rejected because of his numerous speeding tickets. Later the army was drawn up, but tests showed he had diabetes, which killed his paternal grandfather. Lucas was prescribed medication and the disease does not seem to need insulin. In 1967, Lucas re-enrolled graduate student in film production from USC.
Eventually, he founded the studio American Zoetrope with Francis Ford Coppola, in hopes of creating an environment of freedom, the filmmakers directly outside the perceived oppressive control of the Hollywood system study. Since the economic success of his films American Graffiti (1973) and Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977), Lucas was able to create his own studio, Lucasfilm, the home of Marin County in Northern California. Skywalker Sound and Industrial Light & Magic, the subdivisions of the sound and visual effects of Lucasfilm, respectively, is now respected companies in their field. Lucasfilm Games, later renamed LucasArts, is highly regarded for many years in the gaming industry.
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is considered by some as the first "high concept" film, although others feel the first was Steven Spielberg's Jaws, released two years ago, Lucas and Spielberg were good friends. for some time and eventually worked together on several films, including the first Indiana Jones vehicle, Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981.
Return is based on Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope turned out to be one of the most successful film of all time. During the filming of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Lucas waived before the Director of the payment and has negotiated the rights to license the rights that we thought study and almost worthless. This decision earned him hundreds of millions of dollars, when he was able to benefit directly from all the licensed games, toys and collectibles created by the franchise. In 2004, Forbes Magazine estimated Lucas 'personal wealth' is $ 3,000,000,000. In 2005 Forbes.com estimated income from all life on the Star Wars franchise for almost 20 billion dollars.
Lucas was fined Directors Guild of America, to refuse to comply with the standard title sequence in his Star Wars films. After paying the fine, he left the guild. This task is difficult for him to find a leader with some of his later projects. According to some, his friend Spielberg wanted to direct some of the latest Star Wars movie, but a member of the guild Spielberg may have been able to do so. Spielberg has repeatedly stated that Lucas consciously did not give him direct any Star Wars movie, even if Spielberg wanted. Other directors Lucas to help him was David Lynch and David Cronenberg, both down.
3. October 1994, Lucas began writing the three Star Wars prequels, and November 1 of that year he left the daily operation of his business and began filming the end of the prequel sabbatical.
American Film Institute awarded Lucas its Lifetime Achievement Award for 2005. He received the award June 9, 2005. [1]
5. June 2005, Lucas was named the 100 "Greatest American" by the Discovery Channel.
In 1969, Lucas married editor Marcia Lou Griffin, who won an Oscar for his work on the original film (the fourth) Star Wars. They adopted a daughter, Amanda, in 1981 and divorced in 1983. Lucas has since adopted two more children: Katie, born in 1988, and Jett, born in 1993. His three sons have appeared in the prequels.
In 2005, Lucas gave $ 1 million to help build the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial on the National Mall in Washington DC to commemorate American civil rights Martin Luther King Jr.. George Walton Lucas was born in Modesto, California. His father, George Walton Lucas, Sr., was a stationery store and owner of a small walnut orchard was mainly due to British and Swiss heritage. His mother, Eleanor Dorothy Bomberger Lucas, was a member of a prominent Modesto family (one of his cousins is the mother of former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman) and was mostly German and Scottish and Irish heritage.
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