The $1.5 billion museum has 1,200 pieces of art from Lucas’ private collection, including various paintings, photography, sculpture and original props, costumes and vehicles from the “Star Wars” films. The museum totals 300,000 square feet, with 35 galleries spread across a 13-acre campus. Plans for the museum were originally announced in 2013, and San Francisco and Chicago were considered before the “Star Wars” creator landed on Los Angeles.
Lucas has been hands-on with the designs and even pointed out during the interview that the team needed to add more lights to read some of the art inscriptions better. Then the job was less about convincing and then asking people to execute. Now he won’t work at this level of detail forever because this nearly killed him.” Lucas added, “Well, I’m 82, so there is a limit to — when I did this, I decided to retire from making movies, which was a big deal because I had three more ‘Star Wars’ to make.
But I realized that I was running out of time, and I did want to make this museum, and I’d spent a lot of time developing digital technology for the movie business.” The last films Lucas directed were the “Star Wars” prequel trilogy, comprised of “Phantom Menace,” “Attack of the Clones” and “Revenge of the Sith.” Like the original trilogy, he also wrote and executive produced them. Then, in 2012, Disney bought Lucasfilm for $4 billion, and Lucas wasn’t involved with the sequel trilogy of the 2010s. This summer saw the release of “The Mandalorian and Grogu,” the first theatrical “Star Wars” film since the sequel trilogy ended with 2019’s “The Rise of Skywalker.” Next summer, the franchise will expand with “Star Wars: Starfighter,” starring Ryan Gosling.
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