George Lucas Net Worth
The U.S. film director, producer, scriptwriter and entrepreneur George Walton Lucas Jr.born May 14, 1944. Lucas is best known to establish and start Lucasfilm, LucasArts and Industrial Light & Magic franchises for Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Prior to selling it to Walt Disney Company in 2012, he served as chairman of Lucasfilm. Lucas has been nominated for four Academy awards and is one of the most financially successful filmmakers in history. His films include one 100 of North American box office’s highest films, adapted to inflation in the price of tickets. Lucas is a major figure in the New Hollywood movement of the 20th century.
Lucas co-founded American Zoetrope with film maker Francis Ford Coppola after graduating in 1967 from the University of Southern California. THX 1138 (1971) was written and directed by Lucas, who based him on his previous student Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138, 4EB. The film, American Graffiti (1973), was inspired by his youth in Modesto California in the early 1960’s and produced through the newly founded Lucasfilm, was his next work as writer-director. The movie was successful critically and commercially and received five nominations for the Academy Award, including Best Picture.
Lucas’ next film, Star Wars’s epic space opera (1977, in French), produced a troubled production and was a surprise hit, becoming the highest film at that time. The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and the return of the Jedi, are produced and co-written by Lucas (1983). In the film “Raiders from the Lost Ark” (1981), “the Temple of Doom” (1984), “The Last Crusade” (1989) and “the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” he created, produced, and co-wrote Director Steven Spielberg (2008).
Lucas is also known for collaborating with the composer John Williams, with whom Spielberg recommended and who worked in both of these franchises for all the films. In Lucas film between the 1970s and the 2010s he produced and wrote a number of movies and television series.
George Lucas Net Worth
George Lucas is a $10 billion net worth managing director, writer, producer and business man. He is best known for creating franchises in the world of Star Wars and Indiana Jones that generated ticket sales of $12 billion north of the world. He is the founder of Lucasfilm and Industrial Light and Magic, the company for technical effects.
The $10 billion net amount of George Lucas makes him the richest famous manager of the world and the richest man in the entertainment industry.Lucas signs the philanthropic “Giving Pledge” which demonstrates his intention to give charity, when he dies and dies, at least one half of his property.
