George Lucas: Race Car Driver

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George Lucas was a boy with a dream. He wanted to be a race car driver, but instead of being a race car driver he went to college and became a successful filmmaker of Star Wars and Indiana Jones. In order to understand George Lucas’s success it’s important to know about his childhood, schooling, and TV career.

George Lucas was born May 14 1944 and grew up in Modesto, California his parents were George Lucas, and Dorothy Lucas. During his childhood George Lucas was very fascinated with cameras but he wanted to become a racecar driver. His first car was a Fiat but it was slow so he customized the engine to make it go faster. He would go driving with his friends in high school to pick up girls. While driving George went down a dirt road and was going fast
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George Lucas got his high school diploma and he went to college at University California for one year. Then he went to film school and made a sound system called THX 1138. After that he went on to make a screenplay called Star Wars. Even after all of this, George still wanted to become a race car driver. George Lucas was still successful in school even though he only went for one year.

George Lucas’s TV career was very successful. In 1977 George came out with Star Wars episode IV A New Hope with Harrison Ford (Han Solo) Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) Anthony Daniels ( C-3P0) Kenny Baker (R2-D2) Alec Guinness (Obi-Wan Kenobi) David Prowse (Darth Vader). George Lucas was a very successful man during his life.

George Lucas was a very successful man. In George Lucas’s life he was fascinated with cameras and wanted to be a race car driver but instead of all that George became a director of Star Wars and Indiana Jones. George later sold Star Wars to Disney for $4 Billion dollars and now lives at skywalkers ranch in California in Marlin county. George Lucas began as a boy with a dream but became a successful

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