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Jul 12, 2022 · Without Marcia Lucas, George Lucas might have kept Obi-Wan Kenobi alive forever. Here's how here late-in-the-game suggestion saved 'Star Wars: A New Hope' — and invented Force Ghosts.
Sep 20, 2021 · Marcia Lucas, the Oscar-winning editor of the original “ Star Wars ,” wasn’t very happy with Disney’s sequel trilogy. She said producer Kathleen Kennedy and director J.J. Abrams “don’t ...
Dec 22, 2019 · Marcia Lucas. Among fiction writers, the editing process is notoriously dreaded as drudge work, but revision is where the magic happens. It’s where a struggling, plodding story is shaped into the author’s vision. Recently I discovered “How Star Wars was saved in the edit”, an impressive and succinct video on the high art of film editing.
Jul 26, 2022 · Marcia Lucas won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing in 1977 for her work on A New Hope, and went on to edit the next two films -- even working on The Return of the Jedi while she and George ...
Marcia Lucas is an American film editor who, in her brief career, won an Academy Award for her work in the first instalment of the Star Wars movies Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope and went on to work in the third instalment of the trilogy Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi.
Marcia Lucas, wife of director George Lucas, right, carries her Oscar statuette as they arrive at a post Academy Awards party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, Ca., April 4, 1978.
Born 1945. Marcia Lucas edited Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and was then the supervising editor of his next two films, Taxi Driver and New York, New York. The first film by her husband George Lucas that she co-edited (with Verna Fields) was American Graffiti. She then co-edited the first Star Wars: Episode IV with Paul ...