George Lucas by Brian Jay Jones is the first comprehensive telling of the story of the iconic filmmaker & the building of his film empire as well as of his enormous impact on cinema At once a biography a business manual & a film history George Lucas will for the first time explore the life & work of a fiercely independent writerdirectorproducer who became one of the most influential filmmakers & cultural icons
- a true game changer On May 25 1977 a problem-plagued budget-straining independent science fiction film opened in a mere thirty-two American movie theatres Its distributor
- 20th Century Fox
- were baffled by the film The film&s production had been a disaster from nearly day one hampered by bad weather malfunctioning props & ill-fitting costumes But its release on a quiet Wednesday in May of 1977 changed cinema forever The film was Star Wars The fiercely independent thirty-three year-old George Lucas was just getting going Determined to control every element of the film-making process he had founded Lucasfilm ltd in 1971 Among his hits Lucas gave us six Star Wars films & four featuring the globetrotting archaeologist Indiana Jones Together these ten films have earned more than 6 billion worldwide & won some of the largest & most devoted fan bases ever seen In 2013 he sold Lucasfilm to Disney for 405 billion Along the way the man who invented the Blockbuster also gave us computer generated imagery (CGI) created a small animation company called Pixar & reinvented the way movies were made marketed & merchandised