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George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker, producer and entrepreneur. Lucas is known for creating the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and founding Lucasfilm, LucasArts and Industrial Light & Magic. He served as chairman of Lucasfilm before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012. After graduating from the University of Southern California in 1967, Lucas co-founded American Zoetrope with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Lucas wrote and directed THX 1138 (1971), based on his earlier student short Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which was a critical success but a financial failure. His next work as a writer-director was the film American Graffiti (1973), inspired by his youth in early 1960s Modesto, California, and produced through the newly founded Lucasfilm. The film was critically and commercially successful, and received five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. Lucas's next film, the epic space opera Star Wars (1977), had a troubled production but was a surprise hit, becoming the highest-grossing film at the time, winning six Academy Awards and sparking a cultural phenomenon. Lucas produced and co-wrote the sequels The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). With director Steven Spielberg, he created, produced and co-wrote the Indiana Jones films Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Temple of Doom (1984), The Last Crusade (1989) and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). He also produced and wrote a variety of films and television series through Lucasfilm between the 1970s and the 2010s. In 1997, Lucas rereleased the Star Wars trilogy as part of a special edition featuring several alterations; home media versions with further changes were released in 2004 and 2011. He returned to directing with a Star Wars prequel trilogy comprising The Phantom Menace (1999), Attack of the Clones (2002), and Revenge of the Sith (2005). He last collaborated on the CGI-animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008–2014, 2020), the war film Red Tails (2012), and the CGI film Strange Magic (2015). Lucas is one of history's most financially successful filmmakers and has been nominated for four Academy Awards. His films are among the 100 highest-grossing movies at the North American box office, adjusted for ticket-price inflation. Lucas is considered a significant figure of the 20th-century New Hollywood movement. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Lucas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
A young farm boy named Luke Skywalker discovers a message from a rebel princess, Leia Organa, hidden in a droid. He meets an old Jedi knight, Obi-Wan Kenobi, who tells him about the Force and gives him his father’s lightsaber. Together, they hire a smuggler, Han Solo, and his Wookiee co-pilot, Chewbacca, to take them to the planet Alderaan, where Leia’s adoptive father is the leader of the rebellion against the evil Galactic Empire. However, they find out that Alderaan has been destroyed by the Empire’s ultimate weapon, the Death Star, a moon-sized space station with a powerful laser. They are captured by the Death Star’s tractor beam and taken aboard. There, they rescue Leia from her cell and try to escape, while Obi-Wan confronts his former apprentice, Darth Vader, who is now a Sith Lord and the second-in-command of the Empire. Obi-Wan sacrifices himself to allow the others to flee, and they manage to reach the rebel base on Yavin 4. There, they join a desperate attack on the Death Star, which has followed them and is preparing to destroy the rebel planet. Luke uses the Force to guide his torpedoes into a small exhaust port, triggering a chain reaction that blows up the Death Star. He is hailed as a hero by the rebels and receives a medal from Leia, along with Han and Chewbacca.
