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20 unusual facts about George Lucas


Bonnie Bracey

Currently she is an international educational consultant; in this capacity she conducts outreach activities for the George Lucas Education Foundation and other groups.

Calling All Girls

The video is a parody of the George Lucas film THX 1138, and was rarely seen before being released on Greatest Video Hits 2 and the band's official YouTube page.

Darryl Starbird

George Lucas included a tip of the hat to Starbird in his 1973 film American Graffiti in which a character named Toad comments about his friend's 1958 Chevrolet Impala, "This may even be better than Darryl Starbird's superfleck moonbird!" In reality, there is no such car, however Starbird's creation, "Predicta", has taken to the "Superfleck Moonbird" name.

George Lucas Coser

For the filmmaker, see George Lucas.

Gives You Hell

"Gives You Hell" was written by Nick Wheeler and Tyson Ritter in Vancouver, Canada on a secluded writing trip for the band's third studio album, and recorded at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch studios in California.

Hot Space

The first Roger Taylor song (however with Mercury on vocals) to be released as a single (albeit in selected countries, including the US and Australia, but not the UK), "Calling All Girls" failed to create much of an impact on the charts where it peaked at #60 in the US and #33 in Canada, despite its music video based on the George Lucas film THX 1138.

Keltech

After an interview on the official starwars.com website, he received a Christmas card from LucasArts signed by George Lucas.

Landulf II of Capua

As American film director George Lucas is frequently said to have looked to Parsifal for inspiration in his creation of the Star Wars saga, Landulf II of Capua, via this long chain of association, is the closest historical source for the villainous Darth Vader.

Lester Novros

Former student and friend George Lucas penned these words for the introduction of the manuscript: "The first time I truly understood the unique quality of film was when I took Les Novros' class. Stressing that film is a kinetic medium, Les has kept the Eisenstienian flame burning at USC, and it is a tradition that has strongly influenced my work."

Lola T70

A T70 coupe also appears as a car of the future in George Lucas' first commercial film, THX-1138.

Luke Records

The label was originally called Luke Skyywalker Records, however because it was not found to be of fair use, Campbell shortened his pseudonym to Luke (a result of George Lucas' successful lawsuit for Campbell appropriating the Skywalker name).

Star Wars Saga

The Star Wars media franchise created by George Lucas, including films, novels, television series, video games, and comic books.

Tataouine

Tataouine's name became famous when George Lucas, who filmed the original Star Wars film in various locations of Tunisia (for example, the Lars Homestead, filmed at the Hotel Sidi Driss in Matmata), named Luke Skywalker's fictional home planet Tatooine.

The Adventure

DeLonge stated that "...it kind of looks like George Lucas' THX 1138, where it's all beautiful naked women and fast cars and concrete and glass architecture."

The Devil's Cinema

Mark Twitchell: a young businessman and filmmaker who aspires to be the next George Lucas.

The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here

In interviews Gretz jokingly claimed it would be titled The George Lucas Neckfat.

Time Tourist

The album's packaging makes reference to a number of other science fiction names corrupted over two centuries — Phettt (Boba Fett), Hein Len (Robert A. Heinlein), Seaclarc (Arthur C. Clarke), A.C Mov (Isaac Asimov), and Kaydich (Philip K. Dick) — as well as to the Roddenberry and Lucas "Sacred StarTexts".

Tom et Lola

The aesthetics of scenarios in the laboratory and the excessive use of white, is similar to THX 1138 by George Lucas, a kind of paradigm in the science fiction of the 1970s.

Waiting in the Summer

Since she claims to have written a script for Lucas in Hollywood, she ends up being the writer for the group's film.

XERB-AM

In 1973 the border blaster XERB became world famous when George Lucas featured the station as the source for the musical soundtrack of his motion picture American Graffiti.


African-American Film Critics Association Awards 2011

Special Achievement: George Lucas, (Cinema Vanguard); Richard Roundtree, (AAFCA Legacy); Hattie Winston (AAFCA Horizon) and Institution, Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Cad Bane

Cad Bane is a fictional character Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas, Dave Filoni and Henry Gilroy, as a recurring antagonist voiced by Corey Burton in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Digital versus film photography

There also are many film directors such as Peter Jackson, Guillermo del Toro, George Lucas, and James Cameron who are adamant supporters of digital cinema and the potential for higher frame rates that it brings.

Forrest J Ackerman

In this way, Ackerman provided inspiration to many who would later become successful artists, including Joe Dante, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stephen King, Donald F. Glut, Penn & Teller, Billy Bob Thornton, Gene Simmons (of the band Kiss), Rick Baker, George Lucas, Danny Elfman, Frank Darabont, John Landis and countless other writers, directors, artists and craftsmen.

Hal Barwood

Born in Hanover, New Hampshire, he studied art at Brown University and later attended the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television, where he met and became friends with George Lucas.

Jan D'Alquen and Ron Eveslage

Jan D'Alquen and Ron Eveslage are American cinematographers best known for their work with film director George Lucas on the sleeper hit film, 1973's American Graffiti.

John G. Thomas

At the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Thomas struggled alongside other to-be-famous film students like George Lucas, Ron Howard, and John Carpenter.

John Jympson

Director George Lucas had wanted to use Richard Chew, but Jympson was a cheaper, local option who would not require a work permit for the film's England shoot.

Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Besides writing, Bledsoe is a CD-ROM script writer for National Geographic and several other educational organizations, e.g. George Lucas Educational Foundation.

Obama Wins!

Tsao, Cartman and Obama meet at a Red Lobster, where they are confronted by Kyle, Stan, Kenny and their friends, who learn, via explanation by Morgan Freeman, that in exchange for Obama's re-election, the Chinese want Obama to give them the rights to the Star Wars franchise (which George Lucas recently sold to the Walt Disney Company), so that the Chinese can make future Star Wars sequels.

Oprah's Next Chapter

Throughout the first season, Oprah interviews Aerosmith's Steven Tyler at his New Hampshire home; journeys to Haiti with Sean Penn nearly two years after a devastating earthquake took the lives of more than 300,000 people; tours Skywalker Ranch with George Lucas as her personal guide; has a slumber party at Southern chef Paula Deen's Georgia estate; and travels to a small town in Iowa devoted to the practice of Transcendental Meditation.

Progressive segmented frame

It is employed in HDCAM and XDCAM video cameras, including the HDW-F900 CineAlta camera which was used by George Lucas for creating Star Wars, Episode 2, and by Alexander Sokurov for creating Russian Ark fully in the digital domain.

Project Happiness

During the filming, the students involved conducted interviews with scientists, celebrities, and world political and spiritual leaders including Richard Gere, Dr. Richard Davidson, Adam Yauch, the late Nirmala Deshpande, Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam, George Lucas, and Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.

Rohan Nichol

Nichol was the original choice to play Captain Antilles, before George Lucas considered using Denis Lawson, the actor that portrayed Wedge Antilles in the original trilogy.

Scott Bartlett

He continued to work in various artistic endeavors and was regularly consulted by special effects crews for large Hollywood films including Altered States, and George Lucas hired him to create the "montage design" for the sequel More American Graffiti.

Starchaser: The Legend of Orin

The New York Times described it as "such a brazen rip-off of George Lucas's Star Wars that you might think lawyers would have been called in".

The People vs. George Lucas

The People vs. George Lucas is a 2010 documentary/comedy film which explores the issues of filmmaking and fanaticism pertaining to the Star Wars franchise and its creator, George Lucas.