Jorge Lucas is world famous as the creator and chief architect of Star Wars. He is also world famous as the co-creator of Indiana Jones franchise. The guy had some solid hits in his day, huh?
Lucas produced all the Indiana Jones films, and he produced several of them Star Wars films he did not personally direct. (Irvin Kershner, thank you for your service.) But when askedLucas has always insisted that he is more than the sum total of a galaxy far, far away and a few raiders from the Lost Ark. For decades, he has said that when he finally finished the Star Wars saga he would use his profits to fund the kinds of experimental films he used to make as a film student at USC. This didn’t work out so well, but even during Lucas’s greatest period as a professional filmmaker (and head of his own production company, Lucasfilm) he helped finance and release films that had nothing to do with science fiction, adventure series or big special effects.
As a producer, Lucas championed some of his favorite directors, some of his most frequent collaborators, and brought some of his own passion projects to fruition. Sometimes, he didn’t even receive on-screen credit for his work. The list below details 12 examples of George Lucas’s lesser-known (and mostly less successful) productions. They don’t feature any X-wings or Temples of Doom, but if you look closely, you can see some of Lucas’s other cinematic interests sprinkled throughout.
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