When a franchise such as Star Wars is so pervasive in popular culture, it is hard to imagine it once being just a spark of an idea. Star Wars came about because creator George Lucas failed to get the film rights to Flash Gordan. A failure turned out to be a big opportunity to create something original, which would go on to become multiple movies, television series, books and more. These days, Disney, not Lucas, is steering the Millennium Falcon but before we get into all that, let’s take a deeper look at Star Wars’ beginnings.
George Lucas’ big idea
In 1971, Lucas began developing his own space opera. Riding the success of his 1973 film American Graffiti, which featured Harrison Ford, he started to pitch his space film around. Both United Artists and Universal rejected it. 20th Century Fox decided to take a chance on Lucas’ 12 page synopsis. It would take Lucas and creative partner Gary Kurtz several drafts and rewrites to get things right.
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