{"id":485651,"date":"2022-08-17T20:30:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T17:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/marcia-lucas-1st-on-camera-interview-in-icons-unearthed\/"},"modified":"2022-08-17T20:30:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T17:30:24","slug":"marcia-lucas-1st-on-camera-interview-in-icons-unearthed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/marcia-lucas-1st-on-camera-interview-in-icons-unearthed\/","title":{"rendered":"#Marcia Lucas&#8217; 1st On-Camera Interview in Icons Unearthed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a32e3bce2c7e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a32e3bce2c7e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/marcia-lucas-1st-on-camera-interview-in-icons-unearthed\/#%E2%80%9CMarcia_Lucas_1st_On-Camera_Interview_in_Icons_Unearthed%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Marcia Lucas&#8217; 1st On-Camera Interview in Icons Unearthed&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/marcia-lucas-1st-on-camera-interview-in-icons-unearthed\/#The_First_On-Camera_Interview_with_George_Lucas_Ex\" >The First On-Camera Interview with George Lucas\u2019 Ex<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/marcia-lucas-1st-on-camera-interview-in-icons-unearthed\/#%E2%80%98Star_Wars_was_Saved_in_the_Edit\" >\u2018Star Wars\u2019 was Saved in the Edit<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/marcia-lucas-1st-on-camera-interview-in-icons-unearthed\/#The_Return_of_Marcia_Lucas\" >The Return of Marcia Lucas<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/marcia-lucas-1st-on-camera-interview-in-icons-unearthed\/#Marcia_Lucas_the_Unearthed_Icon\" >Marcia Lucas, the Unearthed Icon<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CMarcia_Lucas_1st_On-Camera_Interview_in_Icons_Unearthed%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Marcia Lucas&#8217; 1st On-Camera Interview in Icons Unearthed&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<pre><code>     &lt;span class=\"mx-1\"&gt;You would not love \u2018Star Wars\u2019 if not for Marcia Lucas. In numerous ways, she rescued the franchise from oblivion.&lt;\/span&gt;\n&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;div id=\"\"&gt;\n\n\n\n                &lt;figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> \"&gt;\n            &lt;img width=\"800\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Icons-Unearthed-Star-Wars-Vice.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Icons Unearthed Star Wars: Marcial Lucas\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Icons-Unearthed-Star-Wars-Vice.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Icons-Unearthed-Star-Wars-Vice-768x425.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/&gt;                                    &lt;p&gt;\n                    &lt;span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\"&gt;Vice TV&lt;\/span&gt;\n\n                        &lt;\/figure&gt;\n\n    &lt;!-- START BYLINE --&gt;\n    &lt;div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\"&gt;\n        By\u00a0Brad Gullickson\u00a0\u00b7 Published on August 17th, 2022 \n        &lt;\/div&gt;\n    &lt;!-- END BYLINE --&gt;\n\n    &lt;i&gt;Star Wars Explained&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;i&gt; is our ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> where we delve into the latest Star Wars shows, movies, trailers, and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> stories to divine the franchise\u2019s future. This entry examines Icons Unearthed: Star Wars, the new six-hour docuseries from Vice TV, which features the first on-camera interview with Marcia Lucas.&lt;\/i&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Few films have been examined and reexamined as much as <strong><em>Star Wars<\/em><\/strong> and its various sequels, prequels, and spin-offs. I can\u2019t even count the number of documentaries, making-of books, and articles I\u2019ve consumed during my decades-long obsession with the galaxy far, far away. I know it\u2019s a lot. I know I\u2019ll consume a lot more. And most will offer very little in terms of new knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Vice TV, in partnership with The Nacelle Company, recently launched a six-part anthology docuseries digging into the<em> Star Wars<\/em> franchise. <strong><em>Icons Unearthed<\/em><\/strong>:<strong><em> Star Wars<\/em><\/strong> is a nuts-to-bolts retelling of the saga\u2019s creation myth. The first two episodes are <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vicetv.com\/en_us\/show\/icons-unearthed-star-wars\">currently streaming<\/a>, with the rest to follow every Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The show takes a rapid-fire <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach, stitching numerous interviews together in a rough, jaggy fashion. <strong>Phil Tippett <\/strong>will chime in with an interesting tidbit, but you\u2019re off in another direction before you can process the comment. <em>Icons Unearthed<\/em>\u2018s propulsive nature makes the viewing experience a little exhausting but never dull. You\u2019ve undoubtedly heard many of these stories before, but there\u2019s at least one contributor\u2019s tale you\u2019ve missed: <strong>Macia Lucas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_First_On-Camera_Interview_with_George_Lucas_Ex\"><\/span>The First On-Camera Interview with George Lucas\u2019 Ex<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Marica Lucas arrives in <em>Icons Unearthed<\/em> with little fanfare but a significant set-up. Marcia met George in the late sixties when they both worked as apprentice editors on the short film\u00a0<em>Journey to the Pacific<\/em>. They quickly connected, and a few years later, they were married. After working on films like <em>Medium Cool<\/em> and <em>The Rain People<\/em>, Marcia assisted George in editing his first feature, <strong><em>THX<\/em><\/strong>\u2013<em><strong>1138<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>To hear her tell it, she was with George when the <em>Star Wars<\/em> idea first seeped into his brain. It occurred when they both went to see <em>2001<\/em>: <em>A Space Odyssey<\/em>. The film was overwhelming but mostly slow. However, Kubrick\u2019s masterpiece sparked a passion in George\u2019s heart. What if you applied <strong>Douglas Trumbull<\/strong>\u2018s spectacular effects to a <em>Flash Gordon<\/em> serial adventure? He couldn\u2019t shake the possibility, and George spent nearly every waking moment afterward trying to rally the thought into creation.<\/p>\n<p>The journey from that <em>2001<\/em> screening to <em>Star Wars<\/em>\u2018 premiere was also recently told during the Disney+ series, <strong><em>Light and Magic<\/em><\/strong>. That series\u2019 perspective drills into ILM\u2019s birth and how their wizardry saved <em>Star Wars<\/em> from being just another B-movie bust. <em>Icons Unearthed<\/em> agrees but tells the ILM side of things in sentences, not paragraphs.<\/p>\n<p>Marcia\u2019s story is equally skirted, but <em>Icons Unearthed<\/em> is attempting to reveal a grand picture. As someone deeply interested in her story, how she\u2019s plopped alongside <strong>Anthony Daniels<\/strong> and her editorial colleague <strong>Paul Hirsch<\/strong> is frustrating. That being said,\u00a0<em>Icons Unearthed<\/em>\u2018s director <strong>Brian Volk<\/strong>\u2013<strong>Weiss<\/strong> doesn\u2019t have the same desires I do and Marcia Lucas may not want to be the focus.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98Star_Wars_was_Saved_in_the_Edit\"><\/span>\u2018Star Wars\u2019 was Saved in the Edit<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Constructing <em>Star Wars<\/em> was a desperate act. Every minute put strain upon George Lucas.\u00a0<em>Icons Unearthed<\/em> gives the impression that the director walked away from the experience hating the process. Hence, Irvin Kershner\u00a0helmed <em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>Empire Strikes Back<\/em>, and Richard Marquand directed <em>Return of the Jedi<\/em>. Not until the last minute did George Lucas, or anybody in the production really, understand the magnitude of what they had made.<\/p>\n<p>While <strong>John Dykstra<\/strong> and his ILM cronies were rapidly assembling the effects, Paul Hirsch and Marcia Lucas scrambled to concoct a watchable edit. The film\u2019s original editor, from the British crew, cobbled together a tonal disaster. Paul and Marcia were determined to whittle it into something passable, and maybe even something exciting (as long as the ILM folks came through on their end).<\/p>\n<p>Marcia Lucas\u2019 focus was the Death Star run. Using old World War II movies like <em>The Dam Busters<\/em> as her guide and sometimes stand-in (again, the ILM team struggled to complete their shots), she stretched the sequence as far as she could. Originally, Luke Skywalker took two passes at the trench before scoring a hit, but Marcia encouraged George to excise the first. He agreed, but with only one pass, that trench run needed to be as tense as possible. Marcia rearranged and inserted frames, prolonging the battle by adding a countdown clock.<\/p>\n<p><em>Star Wars<\/em>\u2018 initial edit did not have the Death Star approaching Yavin 4. Using voiceover and Death Star gunner footage stolen from the previous destruction sequence of Alderaan, Marcia Lucas created a ticking clock for the final battle. Originally, the only danger belonged to the X-Wing pilots and the Death Star denizens. Marcia Lucas removed the threat-exclusivity from the battlefield and placed a target on those good Rebels not yet in the fight. If Luke Skywalker doesn\u2019t hit his target, millions more will die shortly after.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Return_of_Marcia_Lucas\"><\/span>The Return of Marcia Lucas<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Marcia Lucas and George Lucas\u2019 marriage dissolved during the post-production of <em>Return of the Jedi<\/em>. To this day, as depicted in <em>Icons Unearthed<\/em>, several crew members believe there was an extramarital affair. Marcia Lucas vehemently denies these accusations in the docuseries. In her recollection, George became a workaholic, and his time as Mr.\u00a0<em>Star Wars<\/em>\u00a0pulled him away from her.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, with their marriage in crumbles, according to Marcia, George asked her to contribute one last time to the <em>Star Wars<\/em> franchise. Once again, alongside Paul Hirsch, Marcia toiled on the edit. With the job done, her time as editor was also complete. She no longer contained that creative desire and retired from the task.<\/p>\n<p>Reliving these moments paints pain on Marcia Lucas\u2019 face. She seemingly adored revisiting those early days, celebrating the monumental task they accomplished as a couple, but when reflecting upon the end, Marcia\u2019s demeanor grows grim. She has not spoken to George in years. Marcia even wonders if she ever will again. He seemingly wants nothing to do with her.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Marcia_Lucas_the_Unearthed_Icon\"><\/span>Marcia Lucas, the Unearthed Icon<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em>Icons Unearthed<\/em> feeds the <em>Star Wars<\/em> obsessive well. Like any feast, there are tastier bits than others. You\u2019ll find yourself wishing the meal had more Marcia Lucas or Richard Marquand gossip. I didn\u2019t get into it here, but the <em>Return of the Jedi<\/em> segments features lots of people with nothing but venom for the director. Anthony Daniels ain\u2019t holding back at all, calling Marquand incompetent repeatedly. There\u2019s more to dine on there for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, <em>Icons Unearthed<\/em> initiates more curiosity about Marcia Lucas\u2019 contribution to <em>Star Wars<\/em>. If she\u2019s willing, a doc focused on her perspective would certainly reveal a previously unconsidered side of the franchise story. And with her talking, wouldn\u2019t it be glorious if George Lucas found a voice to chat again about <em>Star Wars<\/em>? Since the Disney Lucasfilm acquisition, the man seems totally done with his cinematic baby.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, he\u2019s said enough already. Marcia Lucas is just getting started. Let her talk.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong><em>Icons Unearthed<\/em>: <em>Star Wars<\/em> is now streaming on Vice TV.<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre><code>    Related Topics: Star Wars, Star Wars Explained\n    &lt;!-- AUTHOR BOX --&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/brad.jpg\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md\">\n            Brad Gullickson is a Weekly Columnist for Film School Rejects and Senior Curator for One Perfect Shot. When not rambling about movies here, he&#8217;s rambling about comics as the co-host of Comic Book Couples Counseling. Hunt him down on Twitter: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mouthdork\">@MouthDork<\/a>. 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