A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, George Lucas promised us some intimate movies … yeah,...

Published Date: 05 July 2008 FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL never need to establish a George Lucas museum, because George Lucas has already built one for himself. On either side of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco he has constructed himself two temples where Star Wars is made and worshipped: at his Skywalker Ranch in Marin County and his newer office complex, the Letterman Digital Arts Centre at the Presidio, he has gathered all manner of relics honouring his six-film saga, from the imposing (life-size replicas of the villains Darth Vader and Boba Fett) to the self-congratulatory (a Yoda fountain) to the self-deprecating (a carbonite block encasing the much-loathed Jar Jar Binks). Like religious shrines, these buildings both consecrate and confine the man for whom they were built. Using the freedom and the fortune he has... [read full story]