George Lucas

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q38222: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Raiders of the Lost Ark, which Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis credits them on.

Counted as studio. The films the hosts said they were behind, which the two lists below run through too: Cars (2006). Count them as director (8 films), writer (3 films), producer (3 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Doc Hollywood (1991): 1 line

  1. craft (structural copy) · through Cars (2006), which they were behind as founder of Pixar: Doc Hollywood ⇒ Cars (the host's read). Cars follows Doc Hollywood beat for beat, swapping in a hidden-legend old racer as the town mentor.
    “Cars is Doc Hollywood basically beat for beat.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 0:07:08 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

Irvin Kershner: 1 line

  1. unmapped (teacher) · them, directly: Irvin Kershner ⇒ George Lucas (the host's read). Kershner (Zebedee here) taught Lucas at USC and is cited as good with actors.
    “He was George Lucas's, yes, like teacher at USC.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 1:18:10 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · them, directly: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ George Lucas (the host's read). Lucas's Star Wars deal (giving up salary for merch and control) enabled the Raiders deal of owning the negative.
    “he gives up his salary and his points as a director on Star Wars to retain the control and the merch.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 1:01:43 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Directing (16) everyone in directing

Writing (5) everyone in writing

Producing (3) everyone in producing

Other (2) everyone in other

Studio (1) everyone in studio

What was said about them, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (career): James Cameron → George Lucas. Blank Check got started trying to make sense of Lucas and what success did to him.
    “we realized what was really interesting to us was trying to make sense of George Lucas”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:03:56 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Warwick Davis → George Lucas. Davis's Ewok performance made Lucas say he would write him a movie.
    “Yeah, I mean, there's a reason that Lucas comes out of this and is like, I'm writing a movie for you.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:05:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Kathleen Kennedy → George Lucas. Kennedy asked Lucas where he was emotionally when he made A New Hope, and his hardware-store-family answer revealed it was about escape.
    “And she was like, oh, that's Star Wars.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 1:19:48 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

contrast (3)

  1. contrast (contrast in pace): George Lucas → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Lucas's pioneering move in Star Wars was to make space move fast, against 2001's floaty slowness.
    “the single most pioneering element of Star Wars was Lucas being like, we can move fucking fast here.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:40:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): J.J. Abrams → George Lucas. Abrams quoted wanting something worth people's time and not a commercial for toys, a jab at Lucas.
    “I want to make something worth people's time and not a commercial for toys.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 0:06:05 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): George Lucas → Steven Spielberg. Spielberg tweaked E.T. and realized he hated having done that, unlike Lucas.
    “you hear about like Spielberg tweaking ET and immediately realizing like, I hated that I ever did that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 0:53:57 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

craft (9)

  1. craft (craft): Stan Lee → George Lucas. Lucas and Spielberg not talking down to young audiences echoes Stan Lee's magic.
    “that was kind of Stan Lee's magic too.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 1:30:57 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): George Lucas → Raiders of the Lost Ark. Lucas directed much of the second unit, taking over a lot of the stunt-heavy truck chase work to get the movie finished.
    “George Lucas also did a lot of the 2nd unit.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:46:12 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. craft (re-edit): Star Wars (original trilogy / special editions) → George Lucas. Lucas re-edited and added CGI; a fan's de-specialized version feels better and was burned to Blu-ray.
    “put them in the original color corrections and I like, it feels better.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:36:02 · Tim Simons (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Wong Kar-wai → George Lucas. Wong's recolorizing of his own films is compared to George Lucas special editions.
    “He's going George Lucas, maybe.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:16:33 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): Richard Marquand → George Lucas. Marquand supposedly said directing Jedi was like directing King Lear with Shakespeare in the next room.
    “trying to direct King Lear with Shakespeare in the next room”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 0:07:00 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  6. craft (craft): George Lucas → Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi. The 1990s special-edition CGI changes touch Jedi more than the other two originals.
    “I would argue more than the other 2 in this trilogy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 0:23:09 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  7. craft (craft): George Lucas → Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi. Lucas's puppet Jabba works because it was a real puppet and shouldn't have been replaced.
    “It's really good that Lucas did not replace that puppet.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 0:38:50 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  8. craft (craft): George Lucas → Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi. Jedi's Yoda deathbed scene is added at Lucas's request after a child psychologist doubted kids believed Vader was Luke's father.
    “the kids might think that Vader was just lying when he said he was his Luke's father.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 0:56:20 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  9. craft (craft): George Lucas → Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi. Lucas did Blu-ray insertion of Hayden Christensen as ghost Anakin so viewers must watch the prequels.
    “he basically makes it impossible for you to not watch the prequels in one final little visual like gag.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 1:16:51 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

industry (4)

  1. industry (dealmaker): Tom Pollock → George Lucas. Pollock as lawyer got Lucas the Star Wars sequel and merchandising rights.
    “he is the one who got George Lucas the Star Wars deal.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 0:54:22 · Jamelle Bouie (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Body Heat → George Lucas. Lucas is said to have produced Body Heat and removed his name so his brand would not undercut its sexiness.
    “Lucas produced body heat, but had his name removed from it because he thought that people would be turned off of the movie being sexy with his name attached.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 0:53:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): George Lucas → The Elephant Man. Compared to Mel Brooks hiding his name on The Elephant Man so audiences would not expect a comedy.
    “It's like the Mel Brooks elephant man thing, where it's like they'll think it's a comedy.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 0:53:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. industry (industry): George Lucas → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Lucas's Star Wars deal (giving up salary for merch and control) enabled the Raiders deal of owning the negative.
    “he gives up his salary and his points as a director on Star Wars to retain the control and the merch.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 1:01:43 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (lineage): James Cameron → George Lucas. Cameron, like Lucas, conceived a new way to make movies and took years doing it.
    “and not unlike Lucas, another lodestar for your show.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:27:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Raiders of the Lost Ark → George Lucas. Raiders fuses Spielberg's and Lucas's love of 30s-50s serialized hero comic strips.
    “it is a neat fusion of his point of view and George Lucas's point of view and their fascination with the serialized hero comic strip stories of the 30s and 40s and 50s”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:09:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

people (5)

  1. people (people): George Lucas → Steven Spielberg. Their friendship is the mythology: two sides of the same coin, like the Beatles and Rolling Stones.
    “here's like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones inspiring each other.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 0:41:14 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): George Lucas → Disney. Spielberg compared Lucas to Disney for putting out a vision so attractive you would be a fool to deny it.
    “George is a bit like Disney.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 0:53:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): George Lucas → David Lynch. Lucas pitched Return of the Jedi to Lynch, who found Star Wars not his cup of tea.
    “Unfortunately, Star Wars wasn't my cup of tea.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:02:05 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Marcia Lucas → George Lucas. The speakers theorize Lucas's divorce, and loss of her reining-in, drives the special-edition tinkering and the end-credit editor change.
    “Like she was the one who was kind of keep reining him in?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 0:26:34 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  5. people (people): Simon Pegg → George Lucas. Lucas told Pegg to promise he would not make the same movie 30 years from now, a haunted remark.
    “Just promise me right now you won't end up making the same movie 30 years from now.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 0:55:02 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (teacher): Irvin Kershner → George Lucas. Kershner (Zebedee here) taught Lucas at USC and is cited as good with actors.
    “He was George Lucas's, yes, like teacher at USC.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 1:18:10 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (orbit): Willard Huyck → George Lucas. Huyck and Katz were in the Lucas orbit in the 70s with an American Graffiti credit.
    “They were in the Lucas orbit in the 70s.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:07:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

what-if (5)

  1. what-if (what-if): George Lucas → Rocky. The hosts wish someone had done a George Lucas and paid to CGI fans into the empty arena for a re-release.
    “I just wish somebody had done a George Lucas and just paid the 50 grand to CGI some fans all over the place.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:13:20 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): George Lucas → Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. Lucas's planned sequel outline, midichlorian-heavy, sounds like the prequels: wacky ideas, possibly unwatchable, dramatically inert.
    “I mean, it sounds like the prequel trilogy and it would probably be at times completely unwatchable.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:49:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): George Lucas → Cars. Lucas's idea of living things as cars for biomatter makes it odd he did not direct the Cars movies, given he founded Pixar.
    “It's kind of weird that George Lucas didn't direct the cars movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:49:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (what-if): George Lucas → Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi. If Lucas went back to these films, Leia would be training with a lightsaber by film three.
    “I think if Lucas went back to these movies, he would be like, Leia should by the 3rd movie Leia should be starting up with a lightsaber.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:22:34 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. what-if (what-if): George Lucas → The Godfather Part III. Speaker jokes that if people can fix Star Wars, someone should fix Godfather III, then Casablanca.
    “Godfather 3 is bad.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 0:30:39 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about George Lucas: Simon Pegg story: Lucas asked him not to make the same movie 30 years from now.
    “Just promise me right now you won't end up making the same movie 30 years from now.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 0:55:02 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)