George Lucas planning 'Star Wars' sequels?

by justin

George Lucas planning ‘Star Wars’ sequels?
George Lucas is not planning new ‘Star Wars’ films as recently reported, his production company Lucasfilm says.
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Still from Action Painting #5 (after George Lucas)


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From a series of top 10 movie explosions. This composition was made with custom software that captures the color and form of explosions in action films. The source of this composition was Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi by director Richard Marquad and creator George Lucas.

More information about Top 10 Movie explosions is available here: www.mantissa.ca/projects/actionpainting.php

George W. H. Lucas


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Co. F, 35th IA. Infantry
2nd Lieutenant
William Cutler wrote the following about this gentleman:
CAPT. GEORGE W. H. LUCAS, real estate and loans, was born in Ohio in 1835. He received a collegiate education. At the age of twenty he began farming in Iowa, and continued until 1874, at which time he came to Kansas and located at Cherokee, and opened the mercantile business in connection with the grain and stock trade. He joined the army in 1861, and was mustered out in 1865 as Brevet Major. He continued in the mercantile business until 1878, at which time he sold out and engaged in his present business. He is a member of the M. E. Church and Trustee of the same. He was married to Miss Mary F. Hitchcock, of Indiana, in 1856. They have three children–Charles M., Lillie B. and Frank E. Charles M. Lucas was educated at the State University of Kansas, graduating in June, 1881. Starting in printing The Sentinel on the Border in 1879, at the age of seventeen, and continued at it for two years. He was then at school a short time, and then returned to printing, and published The Sentinel on the Border in Cherokee, and has continued and had it published while he was at college.

Pages 642-645 from A Twentieth century history and biographical record of Crawford County, Kansas, by Home Authors; Illustrated. Published by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, IL : 1905.

GEORGE W. H. LUCAS.

George W. H. Lucas, mayor of Cherokee and a leading real estate dealer, is honored and esteemed as one of the oldest citizens of Cherokee, having made this his home continuously for thirty years, and his connection with this section of the Sunflower state antedates this by about ten years, so that very few men in these whereabouts are more thoroughly identified with the life and progress of this region. He belongs to a family, in fact, which has kept pretty well on the advanced frontier of civilization in the United States, and through more than one member become conspicuous by the part taken in administrative and business affairs. The nearly seventy cycles of time which Mr. Lucas has filled out have been from an early age teeming with industrious and useful effort, and the many honors and emoluments rewarding his career have been as the recognition of a high merit and a conscientious and high-minded performance of responsibilities and duties.
Mr. Lucas was born near Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1835, being a son of Samuel and Nancy (Hitchcock) Lucas, both natives of Ohio. An uncle of Samuel Lucas was General Robert Lucas, one of the noted military and public figures in the history of the middle west during the early half of the last century. He earned his military reputation and rank with General Cass, and was a soldier with a distinguished record during the war of 1812 and in the later Indian wars in the west. He was governor of the state of Ohio for two terms, and was later appointed governor of the territory of Iowa when it formed a part of Wisconsin territory, and was also its governor when it became a separate territory. He tendered his nephew, Samuel Lucas, an appointment as Indian commissioner in the Iowa territory, and the latter, in the pioneer year of 1837, with his entire family, moved from Ohio to Iowa, locating at Bloomington, now Muscatine. That was the frontier of western civilization in those days, and there were only a few houses in the settlement of Bloomington. As Indian commissioner Mr. Samuel Lucas helped in the removal of the Sac and Fox Indians further west. He lived in Muscatine a long period of years, and died there in 1877. His wife survived him, and died a few years later in Kansas.
Mr. George W. H. Lucas was accordingly reared to manhood from the time he was two years old at Muscatine, Iowa, or near that place, most of his boyhood being spent on a farm. He remained in his native state until the Civil war, in which conflict the Lucas family were well represented. He and three of his brothers were Union soldiers. He enlisted at Muscatine in 1862 in Company F, Thirty-fifth Iowa Infantry, and was at once commissioned second lieutenant. He was put in the Trans-Mississippi department under General A. J. Smith, and his service was along the Mississippi river. He was appointed an aide on the staff of General Tuttle, of the Third Brigade, and as such took part in the Red River expedition, and for his bravery during this was brevetted major by General Banks.
He was mustered out at Davenport in 1865, and then came to southeastern Kansas. He took up a claim in Cherokee county not far from the present town of Cherokee, but on account of an ailment contracted in the army his health was poor in this vicinity, and he returned to Muscatine. His brothers, Joseph and Jesse, located at Cherokee at the same time. He remained in Iowa until 1874, and then returned to this part of Kansas and located at Cherokee, Crawford county, where he has lived ever since. His first enterprise here was in the mercantile business, which he continued until 1878, and he then engaged in the grain and coal business and also dealt in real estate. He took a prominent part in the development of Cherokee and this part of the county. He was secretary of the company that was organized to build the Cherokee and Parsons Railroad, a narrow-gauge road, now consolidated with the Frisco System. Mr. Lucas is now in the real estate business almost exclusively, and is the owner of valuable coal and farm lands in Crawford and Cherokee counties.
Mr. Lucas was elected to his present office of mayor of Cherokee in April, 1903, and previously he had filled several terms as councilman and in other local offices. He is one of the prominent Democrats of this section of the state, and has been a delegate to numerous conventions and chairman of the Democratic county central committee. He is affiliated with the Masons and other local lodges.
Mr. Lucas was married at Cherokee to Miss Lola E. Hitchcock, who is herself a woman of much business ability, as is evidenced by the fact that she is a director in the First National Bank of Cherokee. Mr. and Mrs. Lucas have three children, Charles, Mrs. Lillie Heap and Frank E.

I watched “2001: A Space Odyssey” for the first time last night and was surprised to see just how much of George Lucas’ design in Star Wars was just lifted from ’2001…


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From someone who was half raised on Star Wars (the other half being G.I. Joe), I can’t tell you how hoodwinked (ha!) felt about this. To be honest, as I was watching and noticing all the aesthetic similarities, I was thinking "Man, Kubrick totally ripped off Star Wars" until I paused, got my IMDB on and found on "2001" came out in 1968 vs. Star Wars which came out in 1977.

First it was the button inside the 2001 ship (looks like the inside of the Death Star!), and then the half-finished space station (Death Star?!) and THEN the slow-moving-long-spaceship shot (WHAT!)… and then I started seeing nods to other films (er, or things that looked like the inspiration *for* other films rather) all throughout: Monolith floating in space reminded me of Superman (or Superman II) and a lot of the computer graphics look pretty Tron… or actually Star Wars arcade (aka X-Wing heads-up-display… WTF Lucas!). That trippy color montage at the end was looking like multiplayer Rock Band to me too.

For some reason I’m kind of obsessed with this right now, and @kevinmarks from Twitter fwd’ed me this great overview of all the visual inspiration Lucas pulled from with Star Wars. (It’s got a wonky interface, but totally worth flipping through…)

www.canopycanopycanopy.com/4/star_wars__a_new_heap

Meanwhile, Baby’s First Film Epiphany is all happening while I’m up here in VT by myself with the wind whipping around like crazy… and here I am scared of the space people coming to get me anyway and then add the crazy music and the ’2001 monolith scenes are Freaking Me Out!. Happy to report I survived the night – no abductions / space people encounters. Whew.

Wow, here's the total break-down of how much Star Wars has earned. "The Economics Of Star Wars" http://t.co/vGQHfNk – by Dred242 (Dred242)

Just watched "Industrial Light & Magic: creating the impossible". Turned my head back and George Lucas was sitting behind. Pretty cool! – by jacobo3d (Jacobo Barreiro)

I just answer one question: Who did George Lucas sue for his stage name? Luke Skywalker (Uncle Luke) – by CamOfaKind (camille )

George Lucas Trivia!
Do I need to send the screenplay to a publishing company or does it have to be pre-approved by George Lucas himself first?

Answer by Rhythmic
lol.

Don’t worry in a few years you’ll look back at this and laugh in embarrassment.