| Capital: | € 5.8 billion |
|---|---|
| Age: | 75 |
| Born: | May 14, 1944 |
| Country of origin: | United States of America |
| Source of wealth: | Director |
| Last updated: | 2020 |
Short introduction
George Walton Lucas Jr. Is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter who is very well known for his films from Star Wars Saga and Indiana Jones film series. Because of his commitment and his work, he was considered a film industry luminaire. He is one of the richest people in the world, according to Forbes magazine, and sold his company Lucasfilms to Walt Disney Company in 2012 for $ 4 billion. According to his own statement, Lucas wanted to contribute most of the results for educational purposes.
Earth life
George Lucas was born in a small town of Modesto in California. His parents Dorothy and George Lucas senior had three other children besides George Junior. George Lucas Senior is also a stationery shop owner and expects his son George Junior to inherit and continue him. Since Mrs. Dorothy is rare at home because of her professional activity in the hospital, the care of children mostly lying with the family father. It provides great emphasis on strict and conservative care and always tries to maintain the work ethic of children.
From an early age, George Lucas Junior enthusiastically with books such as Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe, Adventure of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn adventure and comics by Donald Duck and Superman and stories with Robin Hood. In addition to strong interest in pop culture, Lucas is also interested in historically relevant backgrounds and also reads a lot of biographies.
After moving to a remote farmhouse in the 1950s, Lucas attended the Thomas Downey Middle School. There he was known as a mediocre student and began developing a great interest on motorbikes at that time. He spent hours messing up his car in his spare time and had made himself a goal starting a racing career.
After graduating from Junior College, Lucas enrolled at the University of Southern California Film School in Los Angeles. There he made his first contact in the film industry and published many smaller student film projects, which made him very popular among his lecturers. After graduating from a film school, Lucas was given a six-month stay at Warner Bros.. Studio by Fellowship Warner warner. There he met the famous director Francis Ford Coppola and a close friendship developed between the two.
Career
Lucas was appointed as Deputy Managing Director of Zoetrope Studios and released his first film feature THX 1138. In the following years 1973-1974 Lucas wrote his script for Star Wars film. The basic ideas include classical struggle between good and evil transferred to a futuristic environment. He got a contract from the 20th century Fox film studio which secured a budget of $ 3 million. Before the idea of Star Wars’s script, Lucas had made a script for a film called Indiana Jones. The implementation of the film was carried out several years later working with Steven Spielberg. Lucas was also involved in several other film production in the following years, as a producer, screenwriter or director.
Career spotlight.
George Lucas’s unexpable milestone marks the Star Wars movie “Star Wars”. At the time of his release, the film was worth around $ 640 million. At that time, it was considered the most successful film financially throughout the time and could accommodate this title for six full years. Star Wars has underestimated $ 892 million to date. The results of this box office are topped by the 1999 film “Star Wars Episode 1”. It underestimates a total of more than 900 million US dollars throughout the world.
Famous quotes
“Star Wars films are my children. I love them, I created them, I was very involved in them and I sold it to Blaver White.”
-George Lucas.
“You can’t sell newspapers by saying good things about something, you can only sell newspapers by creating controversy. Critics are not the creators, the destroyers.”
-George Lucas.
Amazing facts
George Lucas never received an Oscar for his work. However, he has produced more than $ 4.4 billion with his Star Wars film. For Star Wars’s merchandising, Lucas even raised more than $ 20 billion.
Net Worth 2020
As of 2020, his estimated net worth is around US $9.48 billion
