“The Lucas War” is a fantastic investigation into the making of the first film in the “Star Wars” saga. Where we discover its director, George Lucas, preaching in the Hollywood desert.
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The Galaxy Star Wars is an essential pop culture franchise: a machine for offering dreams and making cash. We can no longer count the films, series, books and, obviously, the lightsabers that will land under the trees at Christmas.
An investigative comic book on popular cinema
But if you weren’t old enough to go to the movies in 1977, you can’t understand the shock of the arrival on screens of what was then called Star Wars. We had never seen that.
No one, really no one, except director George Lucas, understood before the first screening what it was about. Neither the Hollywood studio, Fox, supposed to finance the film, nor the actors who played in it. To the point that this creative epic is part of the Stations of the Cross. This is what a breathtaking comic report tells, Lucas Warsby Renaud Roche and Laurent Hopman.
“Financiers only look at what has worked before. The cinema of the 1970s is serious cinema. The only recent science fiction film with special effects, “ 2001, A Space Odyssey ”, didn’t make any money. So they don’t believe it.”
The screenwriter, Laurent Hopmanat franceinfo
The authors of this comic book present George Lucas as the first uninhibited teenager. An introvert with a taste for risk. During filming, the problems multiply. Lucas ends up hospitalized on the verge of a heart attack.
“Lucas defined himself as a provincial hillbilly, which is what he was made to feel like. We don’t take him seriously with his somewhat stupid film.”
The screenwriter, Laurent Hopmanat franceinfo
The book also highlights his wife Marcia Lucas, a great film editor. She will carry the man and the film at arm’s length. Before divorcing after the third opus of the saga.
Lucas Warspublished by Deman.