“George Lucas has expressed his intention, in the event the deal closes, to donate the majority of the proceeds to his philanthropic endeavors.”
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George Lucas
George Walton Lucas Jr. is an American filmmaker and philanthropist. He created the Star Wars franchise and its fictional universe, the Indiana Jones franchise, and founded Lucasfilm, LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic and THX. Lucas also served as chairman of Lucasfilm before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012. The recipient of two Emmy Awards and nominations for four Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, he is considered to be one of the most significant figures of the 20th-century New Hollywood movement, and a pioneer of the modern blockbuster. Despite this, he has remained an independent filmmaker for most of his career.
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Ambito: De cuánto es la fortuna de George Lucas, el visionario creador de Star Wars e Indiana Jones
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3djuegos.com: "Star Wars con banda sonora de rock y una Princesa Leia desnuda". Cuando George Lucas protestó en 1988 contra la modificación de películas clásicas
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2026).
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Public attention spiked: 52,542 Wikipedia readers in one day, 13× the usual 4,037, with 0 article edits.
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Snopes rated the claim “"Star Wars" creator George Lucas confirmed that the famed Millennium Falcon spaceship is visible in the 2005 film, "Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith."” True.
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Coinciding with Lucasfilm's 50th anniversary, an action figure of Lucas in stormtrooper disguise was released as part of Hasbro's Star Wars: The Black Series
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Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson made a donation to NYU through the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation to establish the Martin Scorsese Institute of Global Cinematic Arts
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Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,047 times.
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Lucas announced that an eleven-acre campus with green space and the museum's five-story 300,000 square foot building will be constructed over what was a parking lot in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California
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Reported net worth: $5B (as of 2017).
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“s five-story 300,000 square foot building will be constructed over what was a parking lot in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California. It is due to be completed in 2026. In July 2025, Lucas made his first ever appearance at San Diego Comic-Con, where he previewed the museum. At a panel, he showcased multiple pieces, including drawings from the original Iron Man comic, Indiana Jones concept art, Frida Kahlo paintings, and Peanuts sketches, that will be part of the museum”
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Lucas announced that he was abandoning his plans to locate the museum in Chicago, due to a lawsuit by a local preservation group, Friends of the Parks, and would instead build the museum in California
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It was reported that Lucas had donated between $501,000 and $1 million through the Lucas Family Foundation (now the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation) to the Obama Foundation, which is charged with overseeing the constructi
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Lucas supported Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the run-up for the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the first film of a Star Wars anthology series was released
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Lucas likened his decision to sell Lucasfilm to Disney to a divorce and outlined the creative differences between him and the producers of The Force Awakens
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Was an honoree at the Kennedy Center Honors
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Awarded Disney Legends (2015).
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Lucas wrote the CGI film Strange Magic, his first musical
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At Lucas's Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, California
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Awarded Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award (2013).
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They have one daughter together, born via surrogate in August 2013.
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Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson donated $25 million to the Chicago-based not-for-profit After School Matters, of which Hobson is the chair
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Lucas and Hobson announced their engagement in January 2013, and married on June 22, 2013, at Lucas's Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, California.
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“s Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, California. They have one daughter together, born via surrogate in August 2013. Lucas was born and raised in a Methodist family. The religious and mythical themes in Star Wars were inspired by Lucas”
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Lucas sold Lucasfilm to the Walt Disney Company for a reported sum of $4
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Lucas self-funded and served as executive producer for Red Tails, a war film based on the exploits of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II
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A collection of 57 Rockwell paintings and drawings owned by Lucas and fellow Rockwell collector and film director Steven Spielberg were displayed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from July 2, 2010, to January 2, 2011, in an exhibition titled Telling Stories.
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Awarded California Hall of Fame (2009).
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Was one of 13 California Hall of Fame inductees in The California Museum's yearlong exhibit
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Lucas testified before the United States House of Representatives subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet as the head of his Foundation to advocate for a free wireless broadband educational network
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“Accumulations of Incarnations”
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With Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola to present the Best Director award to their friend Martin Scorsese
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The University of Southern California announced that Lucas had donated $175–180 million to his alma mater to expand the film school
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Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2006).
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Its second "Film, Television, and Media" contributor, after Spielberg
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After meeting in 2005 at a business conference
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Lucas began dating Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments and chairwoman of Starbucks, in 2006, after meeting in 2005 at a business conference.
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Awarded AFI Life Achievement Award (2005).
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Lucas gave $1 million to help build the Martin Luther King Jr
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With the film re-cut and containing a number of CGI additions
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Blu-ray releases in 2011 and 4K releases released in 2019
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Lucas reflected that his transition from independent to corporate film-maker mirrored the story of Star Wars character Darth Vader in some ways, but concluded he was glad to be able to make his films the way he wanted to
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“The Imagineering Way: Ideas to Ignite your Creativity”
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Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,635 times.
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As Episode I – The Phantom Menace, which would be the first film Lucas had directed in over two decades
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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Star Wars, Lucas restored the original trilogy and made numerous modifications using newly available digital technology to bring them closer to his original vision
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Lucas re-released the original Star Wars trilogy as part of a Special Edition featuring several modifications; home media versions with further changes were released in 2004 and 2011
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Lucas began work on the screenplay of the first prequel, tentatively titled Episode I: The Beginning
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The George Lucas Educational Foundation was founded as a nonprofit operating foundation to celebrate and encourage innovation in schools
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1990).
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Lucas subsequently adopted two more children as a single parent: daughter Katie Lucas, born in 1988, and son Jett Lucas, born in 1993.
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And son Jett Lucas, born in 1993
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Lucas was hesitant on making additional Star Wars features
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By Steve Jobs shortly after he left Apple Computer
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1984).
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Lucas and Tomlinson Holman founded the audio company THX
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1982).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1981).
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They adopted a daughter, Amanda Lucas, in 1981, and divorced in 1983.
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After Weber asked Lucas for fifty million dollars to invest in other companies and suggested that they sell Skywalker Ranch to do so, Lucas fired Weber and had to let half of the Los Angeles staff go
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As the Graphics Group, one third of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1978).
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Awarded Inkpot Award (1977).
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Lucas was awarded the Inkpot Award
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Wanted his 1977 film Star Wars to include visual effects that had never been seen on film before
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And incorporated as Lucasfilm Ltd
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Lucas was one of the camera operators on the classic Rolling Stones concert film Gimme Shelter
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Lucas married film editor Marcia Lou Griffin, who went on to win an Academy Award for her editing work on the original Star Wars film
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Lucas moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area and co-founded the studio American Zoetrope with Coppola, hoping to create a liberating environment for film-makers to direct outside the perceived oppressive control of the
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In 1969, Lucas married film editor Marcia Lou Griffin, who went on to win an Academy Award for her editing work on the original Star Wars film.
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Lucas moved to San Francisco and co-founded American Zoetrope with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola
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Studied at University of Southern California (1967–1967).
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Tried joining the United States Air Force as an officer, but he was immediately turned down because of his numerous speeding tickets
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A few days before his high school graduation, Lucas was driving his souped-up Autobianchi Bianchina when another driver broadsided him, flipping his car several times before it crashed into a tree; Lucas's seatbelt had s
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Born 1944-05-14.
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In Modesto, California, a small agricultural city in the Central Valley
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Won National Medal of Arts.
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Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Awarded Honorary Palme d'Or.
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Awarded Kennedy Center Honors.
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Studied at Thomas Downey High School.
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Studied at Downey High School.
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Studied at Modesto Junior College.
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Studied at USC School of Cinematic Arts.
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