Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.
george lucas
george lucas: *made star wars*
george lucas: *set up education foundation*
george lucas: *gave the 4 billion money from the star wars sale to charity*
george lucas: *donated $100,000 to try and fight the ban on same-sex marriage*
goerge lucas: *advocated for free internet in schools*
george lucas: *joined his wife mellody hobson in donating 10 million to bring more racial diversity into usc*
george lucas: *financed low-cost housing development in california*
george lucas: *made the prequel star wars*
star wars fanboys: he is the worst person to have ever existed. the worst person in the movie industry. he ruined my life i hope he dies
Did…did they really just name a planet of squid people “Mon Calamari”? Calamari, as in squid you eat?
the species was literally named after someone’s lunch
#and the millenium falcon was modeled after a hamburger with a bite taken out of it#originally it was gonna be some long skinny thing like the tantive iv
I don’t know what to do with all this information, but I will treasure it
This reminds me of one of my favorite George Lucas stories, told by Liam Neeson in a prequel-era interview. He was looking over the list of names for background characters which Lucas had drawn up and asked where “Orn Free Ta,” a name he thought was particularly evocative, came from. (He was the Twi’lek senator in episode I.) Lucas answered, “Corn Fritter.”
Neeson’s response was “Corn Fritter, wow, that’s deep.”
In case you’re wondering where the name “Darth Vader” came from
According to The Secret History of Star Wars by Michael Kaminski, when Lucas was drawing up his original outline for Star Wars (which has almost no resemblance to the movie), Lucas picked unusual or evocative names from people he knew, and he had a high school classmate named…
wait for it
Gary Vader
So basically what you’re saying here is that in some other universe Anakin’s name could have been Gary
George Lucas on ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’: ‘They weren’t keen to have me involved’ | EW.com
George Lucas on ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’: ‘They weren’t keen to have me involved’ | EW.com
This makes me a bit sad
Before handing over Lucasfilm and the future of his galactic saga to The Walt Disney Co. for $4 billion
I mean
I feel like the title here is a bit quite-miney? Like. He goes on to say that he totally understands why and that he doesn’t want to push the issue.
Remember, the last time George Lucas was given input on what Star Wars should be, we got Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones.
Which are flawed but awesome movies that I absolutely love! And they are absolutely what Star Wars should be. I mean, it is Lucas who gets to make the decision what exactly that is; it’s his baby. (Well, was.) Without him there wouldn’t be any Star Wars at all, and we wouldn’t be having this conversation, and Tumblr wouldn’t be abuzz over Rey and Finn and Poe and my life would be, I dunno, 5%-10% suckier
(Also, the very last time George Lucas was given input into what Star Wars should be, we actually got Revenge of the Sith, which I will always defend as being a pretty good movie in its own right as well as being Important in its politics in a way none of the other films quite managed)