“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.

Surveyors wrote to Lucas afterwards that while observing " the blessings of the Sabbath ," Michigan militia forces advised them to retreat.

When Lucas refused Mason's demand to extradite Two Stickney back to Michigan for trial, Mason wrote to President Jackson for help, suggesting that the matter be referred to the United States Supreme Court.

Lucas wrote the initial script draft himself based on his earlier short film, but Coppola and Lucas agreed it was unsatisfactory, and Murch assisted Lucas to write an improved, final draft.

Lucas initially suggested making the film " a haunted mansion movie ", for which Romancing the Stone writer Diane Thomas wrote a script.

The Shanghai nightclub shown in the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is called " Club Obi-Wan " because George Lucas wrote both the Star Wars and Indiana Jones Series.

Lucas then wrote a film treatment that resembled the final storyline of the film.

In reference to Lucas, his three Ohio commissioners and their guard, Mason wrote, " Let him get on our soil, arrest him, strike the blood at once, disgrace him and his state, and end the controversy.

* May 1: Mason wrote to Howard and Rush indicating his willingness to let Lucas rerun the Harris Line if Ohio would do nothing to extend jurisdiction over the Toledo area once the project was completed.

Writing in 2000, Tim Lucas wrote that Bava is " the acknowledged smoking gun behind the ' body count ' movie phenomenon of the 1980s, which continues to dominate the horror genre two decades later with such films as Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer and their respective sequels.

With accompaniment by experimental rock guitarist Gary Lucas, Buckley performed " I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain ", a song Tim Buckley wrote about an infant Jeff Buckley and his mother.

Buckley invited ex-bandmate Lucas to play guitar on the songs " Grace " and " Mojo Pin ", and Woodstock-based jazz musician Karl Berger wrote and conducted string arrangements with Buckley assisting at times.

Dolman joined Howard and Lucas at Skywalker Ranch for a series of lengthy story conferences, and wrote seven drafts of his script between the spring and fall of 1986.

A few days prior to the attack, Lucas wrote in his diary, " They will end up putting me ashore with inadequate forces and get me in a serious jam ... Then, who will get the blame?

Noted military historian John Keegan wrote, " Had Lucas risked rushing at Rome the first day, his spearheads would probably have arrived, though they would have soon been crushed.

After his visit Alexander wrote to the CIGS, Alan Brooke, saying: Lucas wrote in his diary on February 15:

It has long been known that Foster wrote the original novel of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope which had been credited solely to George Lucas.

Lucas wrote several books on the philosophy of science and space-time ( see below ).

Fellow IGN editor Lucas M. Thomas wrote that Rattata was in the same class as Pokémon such as Bidoof, Sentret, and Zigzagoon due to being an " early, easy catch ", " a Normal type, and can also be utilitarian in learning classic HM moves like Cut ".

In 1990, the Dickies wrote the theme song for Lucas Reiner's comedy film Spirit of 76.

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

Other celebrities such as Tyler Perry, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg have become successful entrepreneurs through starting their own film production companies and running their own movie studios.

George Lucas and Walter Murch incorporated an Eliza-like dialogue interface in their screenplay for the feature film THX-1138 in 1969.

He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors and he epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman and George Lucas, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.

The film introduced George Lucas to him, who became his lifelong friend as well as production assistant in his next film The Rain People in 1969.

George Lucas commented on the film after its five-hour-long preview, telling Coppola: " You have two films.

Coppola co-produced George Lucas ’ s first film, THX 1138, in 1971.

Shortly after completion of production Lucas and Coppola brought the finished film to Warner Bros., along with several other scripts for potential projects at American Zoetrope.

George Walton Lucas, Jr. ( born May 14, 1944 ) is an American film producer, screenwriter, director, and entrepreneur.

Lucas is one of the American film industry's most financially successful directors / producers, with an estimated net worth of $ 3. 3 billion as of 2012.

Lucas currently serves as executive producer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars, an animated television series on Cartoon Network, which was preceded by a feature film of the same name.

For the film Red Tails ( 2012 ), Lucas serves as story-writer and executive producer.

On September 19, 2006, USC announced that George Lucas had donated $ 175 – 180 million to his alma mater to expand the film school.

In 1969, Lucas married film editor Marcia Lou Griffin, who went on to win an Academy Award for her editing work on the original Star Wars film.

Lewis taught a film directing class at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles for a number of years ; his students included Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.

The company was founded in May 1982 as the video game development group of Lucasfilm Limited, the film production company of George Lucas.

The logo is possibly a reference to the ending of George Lucas ' first film, THX 1138, in which the main character stands silhouetted with his arms raised during a sunset.

* In George Lucas ` s film Electronic_Labyrinth: _THX_1138_4EB, THX is escaping an electronic labyrinth

Miss Congeniality is a 2000 American police comedy film directed by Donald Petrie, written by Marc Lawrence, Katie Ford, and Caryn Lucas, and starring Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt, and Candice Bergen.

* Red Tails ( 2012 ) is a George Lucas directed film about the Tuskegee Airmen of the 332nd Fighter Group, featuring P-51 Mustangs in their role as escort fighters.

Scott's next film was American Gangster, based on the story of real-life drug kingpin Frank Lucas.

Rodríguez is a strong supporter of digital film making, having been introduced to the practice by director George Lucas, who personally invited Rodríguez to use the digital cameras at Lucas ' headquarters.