In the summer of 1977, a disillusioned film school graduate named George Lucas was convinced he had just made a catastrophic mistake. The rough cut of Star Wars was a disaster—too fast, too weird, too emotional. His friends, including Steven Spielberg and Brian De Palma, walked out of the screening with sympathetic grimaces. “Nobody’s going to get this,” they said. A year later, Lucas was a billionaire, and the company he built—Lucasfilm—had just rewritten the physics of global pop culture.
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