Product Description

The step-by-step companion to the work of George Lucas. George Lucas has directed only five full-length pictures in thirty years, and yet he is one of the most influential of all contemporary filmmakers: not simply a director, he's also a writer, a producer and an unparalleled technical pioneer, responsible for advances in digital projection, CGI and quality cinema sound. Yet he remains defiantly outside the Hollywood system, financing his - and other people's - pictures out of his own funds, creatively answerable to no one but himself.Starting with his time as a film student, this is a critical journey through the films Lucas has directed and actively produced. It encompasses his abstract early works such as Look at Life and 6.18.67, the mainstream successes of American Graffiti, Star Wars and Indiana Jones and the record selling Star Wars prequel trilogy. There is also an extensive section detailing other projects in which he has had a hand, such as Paul Schraeder's Mishima, Haskell Wexler's controversial Latino and Francis Ford Coppola's Tucker: The Man and His Dream. Thsi is an indispensable reference to the work of George Lucas- the mogul, the mythmaker, the one man brand and the most successful independent filmmaker who has ever lived.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1118961 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Review
'The secret to film is that it is an illusion' George Lucas

From the Publisher
George Lucas is the most successful independent filmmaker who has ever lived. Though he has directed only five full-length feature films, many of them appear in polls of highest-grossing or most-popular films. He has been involved in technological advances and special effects and has used his clout to help produce his own and other people’s films very successfully. Using the formula of the critically acclaimed Virgin Film series, this book covers each George Lucas film, both directed and produced, including the Star Wars and Indiana Jones series, and discusses them in turn, covering categories such as Casting, External References and Cut Scenes. By the co-author of two other books in this series – Tim Burton and Bond Films – Virgin is pleased to publish this essential reference guide to one of Hollywood’s most powerful moguls.

About the Author
Jim Smith was the co-author of Soul Searching: An Unofficial Guide To The Life and Trials of Ally McBeal and Virgin Film books on Tim Burton and the James Bond films, and author of Manhattan Dating Game: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Sex and the City. He has written about television for a variety of publications and is also a regular film reviewer, also writing features for Film Review.