George Lucas Risked Everything
Good morning: In today's edition of The Industry, we look at:
American Godfathers, a Memorial Day best forgotten, Jeffrey Wright is playing games, Leos Carax on Leos Carax, and an existential chicken.
Let’s go!
AMERICAN GODFATHERS
On Saturday, Francis Ford Coppola presented George Lucas with an honorary Palme d’Or.
The pair co-founded American Zoetrope (production company: The Godfather, Apocalypse Now), which was home to Lucas’s first two features, THX 1138 (1971) and American Graffiti (1973).
Coppola recounted:
“I also remember, George, when he returned so sad and rejected, having gone to the owners of Flash Gordon, the protagonist of a space comic book in 1934, and he said they told him he wasn't important enough to trust with their famous character, the star of serial movies that he loved so much as a kid.”
He continued: