The baby boomer "New Hollywood" big four directors of the late 70s, Scorsese, Lucas, DePalma, Coppolla, were all close and knew each other. Back when I cared about this stuff I read two pretty interesting books about 70s hollywood: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, and The Secret History of Star Wars. Lucas also contributed in small ways to "Apocalypse, Now!" and a couple of air raid scenes he wrote for Coppolla were repurposed for his star was screenplay. Lucas wrote 4 different drafts of star wars before finally getting to make the movie. Many of the scenes from the late 90s to mid 00s prequels were actually in the early drafts of the 70s movies. It's funny to hear people say "Execute Order 66" was just a ripoff of the Godfather baptism scene , not realizing he had a hand in the original thing itself.
Just in case it was confusing to anyone else: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is the title of one of the books and The Secret History of Star Wars is the title of the other book.
The baby boomer "New Hollywood" big four directors of the late 70s, Scorsese, Lucas, DePalma, Coppolla, were all close and knew each other. Back when I cared about this stuff I read two pretty interesting books about 70s hollywood: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, and The Secret History of Star Wars. Lucas also contributed in small ways to "Apocalypse, Now!" and a couple of air raid scenes he wrote for Coppolla were repurposed for his star was screenplay. Lucas wrote 4 different drafts of star wars before finally getting to make the movie. Many of the scenes from the late 90s to mid 00s prequels were actually in the early drafts of the 70s movies. It's funny to hear people say "Execute Order 66" was just a ripoff of the Godfather baptism scene , not realizing he had a hand in the original thing itself.
Just in case it was confusing to anyone else: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is the title of one of the books and The Secret History of Star Wars is the title of the other book.
edited to italicize the titles; thanks
Also, there was a time when Lucas was going to make Apocalypse Now, and he was going to shoot it on location in Vietnam, DURING the Vietnam war.
Needless to say that ended up falling through