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BEYOND `STAR WARS' George Lucas readies the next film revolution; The George Lucas file Age: 52 Birthplace: Modesto, Calif. Occupation: Director, producer, screenwriter. Owns Industrial Light & Magic, a special-effects company. His films: Has had a tremendous impact on filmmaking, but has actually directed few films himself. Among them: "THX-1138" (1971); "American Graffiti" (1973); "Star Wars" (1977). Had a hand in the "Star Wars" sequels and in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) and its sequels. Executive-produced many more films, including "Howard the Duck" (1986), "The Land Before Time" (1988) and "Willow" (1988). Bet you didn't know: One of his teachers at the University of Southern California was Jerry Lewis. Latest milestone: His "Star Wars" became the first film to break the $400 million domestic-gross mark when, after its re-release in February, it leapfrogged over "E.T." Up next: He's readying the first of three "Star Wars" prequels. With the working title "Episode One: The Beginning," the project goes into production this fall, for a 1999 release.
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No director has fast-forwarded filmdom into the 21st century as
far as George Lucas has.
His popular galactic fairy tale "Star Wars" is the classic saga
of a charming princess and brave knights, but also of very
unclassical warp drives, Wookies, bots and droids.
Lucas' mythmaking is a novel convergence of Hans Christian
Andersen and Isaac Asimov, the blending of soul and tech, the meeting
of inner child and inner nerd.
In the late '70s, Lucas fleshed out the scope of his
interpl...
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