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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.
George Lucas
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After three onset years of the Clone Wars, two Jedi Knights return to Coruscant after General Grievous has kidnapped the Supreme Chancellor while Ahsoka Tano leads a clone battalion with Bo-Katan Kryze's Nightowls against Maul and Death Watch to retake the Mandalorian planet of Mandalore. After rescuing the leader of the Galactic Senate from the clutches of the CIS, he experiences visions of his wife Padme Amidala dying in childbirth while Yoda leads a Clone Army of the 32nd on Kashyyyk to reinforce the Wookiees against the Droid Army as Obi-Wan leads the 212th clones on the sinkhole planet of Utapau where the droid general has been located. Two genetic clones by the names of X1 and X2 Grey are under the commands of Jedi Masters Plo Koon and Ferroda on the Nemoidian planet of Cato Nemoidia. Meanwhile Anakin is tasked to spy on him and report to the Jedi Council of his motives and intentions that will change the fate of the galaxy, the Republic and the Jedi Order. On the Planet of Kaller, the enhanced clones AKA CF99/Bad Batch assists Jedi Master Depa Billaba and her Padawan Caleb Dume in a struggling battle against Separatists. After the death of Grievous and an attempt on Palpatine (revealed as Darth Sidious), seduces the young Jedi Knight to the dark side and dubs him "Darth Vader" prior to Order 66 and the rise of the Galactic Empire as the new Sith apprentice faces is former master on the volcanic world of Mustafar while the galaxy falls into total darkness.
