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During the production of THX 1138 (1971), producer Francis Ford Coppola challenged co-writer/director George Lucas to write a script that would appeal to mainstream audiences. Lucas embraced the idea, using his early 1960s teenage experiences cruising in Modesto, California.
Aug 11, 2023 · It was when Francis Ford Coppola dared Lucas to write a screenplay with a wider reach and more domestic appeal that American Graffiti was born—and Coppola would later serve as the movie’s...
Feb 28, 2022 · Kennedy's death turned America into a counterculture battleground, and George Lucas telegraphs a breezy time period for America's youth that would soon disappear. How do the title cards...
- GEORGE LUCAS MADE THE MOVIE PARTIALLY OUT OF SPITE. The young director's previous film and first feature, the futuristic sci-fi drama THX-1138, had been a disappointment both critically and commercially.
- IT WAS SAVED FROM BECOMING A TV MOVIE BY THE GODFATHER. Universal Pictures gave Lucas a budget of $600,000, or about $3.5 million in 2016 dollars, to make the movie—in other words, not very much.
- CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, THERE IS NO ACTUAL CONNECTION BETWEEN AMERICAN GRAFFITI AND HAPPY DAYS. Happy Days premiered five months after American Graffiti was released.
- THE STUDIO WANTED TO CHANGE THE TITLE. Universal executives didn't know what American Graffiti meant as a title (they weren't alone), and begged Lucas to change it.
Aug 2, 2021 · Embracing this idea, Lucas would eventually create American Graffiti under his now-iconic production studio Lucasfilm, Ltd. Set in Modesto, California in 1962, American Graffiti was a film born from autobiographical experiences of the cruising and early rock ‘n’ roll cultures of George Lucas’ youth, telling the story of a group of ...
The financial failure of THX 1138 pushed George Lucas to write American Graffiti, which helped launch his career and eventually led to the creation of Star Wars.
Aug 11, 2023 · Before giving us his show-stopping space adventure with Star Wars, George Lucas drew on more personal subject matter for American Graffiti. Lucas' second film was directly inspired by his own...
