We love Lucas – George Lucas – the master of Coming of age, teen angst stories: Sci-Fi Style and Rock 'n Roll style….Both films would give us iconic characters who are as contemporary today as when we first laid eyes on them.
Two young actors were plucked by Lucas for both films; his breakthrough film making a young TV star a movie star – the great film director himself and the other a total unknown would be launched into space in the film that transformed movies forever by taking into a galaxy... far far away...
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