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Just to clarify...I'm asking about George Lucas of STAR WARS and the INDIANA JONES films. My son would like to know for a school project. Asked by newuser9935233 43 months ago Similar questions: George Lucas' favorite food snack Entertainment > Movies.
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Not much George doesn't snack much, as he has diabetes. Here are some good trivia for your son to use in this project:Lucas originally intended Obi-Wan Kenobi to be asian becuase of his love for Kurosawa movies but the studios disagreed with him and he came to see their point of view. Lucas's second choice for the role of Princess Leia was Jodie Foster.
If George Lucas had directed Apocalypse Now as had been originally intended then Harrison Ford would have worked on three films he had directed. American Graffiti and Star Wars would have been the other two. Apocalypse Now which George Lucas nearly directed had Harrison Ford amongst its cast.
Harrison would later go on to star in Lucas's Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies. Lucas was originally going to direct Apocalypse Now before Coppola decided to direct it himself. After his tragic car crash, examiners of Lucas's car concluded that if the seat belt that snapped throwing George from the car had worked he would have been killed instantly.In 1962, when Lucas was involved in a serious car accident, he was driving a Fiat Biancina.
Lucas's birth sign is Taurus. Lucas' biggest disappointment in his life is his failed marriage. Lucas used to read the Landmark history books.
A lot of the books George liked when he was a kid are 18th and 19th century seafaring novels. When george was at school he was much more interested in the social sciences than mathematics and the language arts. Lucas is very interested in history and he is very interested in doing some historical pieces.
Lucas was drafted into the army but was released from duty because he was discovered to have diabetes. Forbes has estimated Lucas's yearly salary to be 225 million US dollars. Lucas recently announced the planned production of a 'Star Wars' television series based between episodes three and four.
According to rumour the show will be entitled 'A Galaxy Far Away'. George has been nominated for four academy awards. Two for directing (American Graffiti and Star Wars: A New Hope) and two for writing (American Graffiti and Star Wars: A New Hope).
When accepting his Life Time Achievement Award at the same time 'Star Wars Episode 3' was released, Lucas joked that since he viewed 'Star Wars' as one movie that he could finally be given this award for at least completing the film. In 2004, Forbes estimated Lucas to be worth 3 billion US dollars.In 2005, Forbes estimated that the lifetime income that Star Wars would generate would be 20 billion US dollars. One of George's student films 'THX 1138' won first prize at the 1967-68 National Student Film Festival and would later on become George's first feature film.
George made a series of short films at USC, the first being 'Freiheit' Most of his films involved elements of the science fiction genre and would go on to influence his later projects. George shared his dorm at USC with Randal Kleiser who went on to direct the musical hit 'Grease'. Lucas was an uncredited executive producer on the film 'Body Heat' which has received much critical acclaim.
George Lucas appeared on 'the Stephen Colbert Report' as George L. A contestant in the green screen challenge. At the end of the 'Stephen Colbert Report' in which George Lucas appeared, George and Stephen fought each other with fake lightsabers.
On October the 11th 2006, George appeared on an episode of 'the Stephen Colbert Report' where they wraped up the green screen challenge. The green screen challenge involved Colbert fighting with a lightsaber, a Lucas creation, in front of a green screen and then competitors using the footage to make special effects sequences. The character of Luke in Star Wars which Lucas admits was partially based on himself is desperate to join the rebel alliance.
This mimics Lucas's desire while growing up to become a race car driver, a dream that was tragically shattered. Lucas attributes the scene in Star Wars: A New Hope where Luke and Han fend off tie fighters from the Millenium Falcon's gunner stations to the war film 'Dam Busters". In fact nearly every shot and piece of dialogue in the Star Wars scene resembles the same scene in "Dam Busters".
For Star War's twentieth anniversery, in 1997, George Lucas re-released the films in cinemas with updated special effects and added scenes. Lucas was so impressed with Frank Oz's Yoda in the film 'The Empire Strikes Back' that he campaigned for him to be nominated for an oscar for his role. However the academy decided against it stating that voice and puppet actors are ineligible for academy award nominations.
Lucas's Star Wars has spawned many parody films most notably Mel Brook's 'Spaceballs' and the more recent 'Thumb Wars'. George Lucas based the Mos Eisley Cantina in Star Wars: A New Hope on the bar in the classic Bogart film 'Casablanca'. George Lucas uses green and blue screens as opposed to sets in the Star Wars prequels for most scenes.
However in the original trilogy, before the development of this technology, locations were used such as studios in the UK and outdoor locations in Tunisia. Lucas displays the themes of destiny versus freewill, emotions versus reasoning and morality in all six of the Star Wars films. George Lucas stated following the release of 'Revenge of the Sith' that it was the only installment of the prequel trilogy that he was satisfied with.
George Lucas is currently working on a 3D animated version of the successful cartoon series 'Clone Wars'. However he hasn't sold the production to a network yet. He is also working on a film entitled 'Red Tails' ,which he will direct, about the first black pilots in the US air force.
During a speech at USC in 2006, following his donation of US$175 million, George Lucas outlined his belief that the film industry was dying out and that Lucasfilm would be shifting their attentions from the big screen to the small screen (T. V). In 2006, George Lucas donated US$175 million to the film school at the University of Southern California to rejuvenate the institution from which he graduated in 1962 and to promote the pursuit of a career in film amongst university students.
In late 2000, George Lucas set up the first Star Wars Fan Film Awards in an attempt to provide a creative outlet for fans to show their admiration for the films through films of their own. Lucas, unlike many other franchise owners, allowed his fans a lot of freedom with their films with very few restrictions. Those being, no use of copyrighted material and no expansion of the existing Star Wars universe.
In 2005, when George Lucas was awarded the life time achievement award he was asked what musical performance he would like at the ceremony. He asked for a band his daughter would like and so Maroon 5 were chosen to perform. George Lucas created and owns THX, a sound company named after his first film 'THX 1138'.
Lucas's character Han Solo redefined the anti-hero on screen. S most recent incarnation would be the loveable but troubled Captain Malcolm Reynolds in Firefly. Lucas's Star Wars changed the face of cinema and the entertainment industry forever.
It has influenced other films and t. V shows, most recently Joss Whedon's Firefly and has been parodied in many films and shows most recently in a several animated comedies (South Park, Family Guy, The Simpsons). The engineer's onboard the death star get their appearance's from Lucas's first film 'THX 1138'.
George Lucas's infamous villain Darth Vader was created from Lucas's fascination with Japanese Samurai's. Similarities between Vader and the villain in Kurosawa's 'dden Fortress' can be easily seen. Lucas had originally based the character of C3P0 on a used car salesman he knew growing up.
However he grew found of Anthony Daniel's british butler version of the android and decided to stick with it. Many more at http://www.tv.com/george-lucas/person/135150/trivia.html Sources: http://www.tv.com/george-lucas/person/135150/trivia.html .
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