{"id":97869,"date":"2025-07-27T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/97869\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T23:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T23:00:12","slug":"george-lucas-in-hall-h-debut-talks-with-guillermo-del-toro-about-new-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/97869\/","title":{"rendered":"George Lucas In Hall H Debut, Talks With Guillermo del Toro About New Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIt was arguably the first big Sunday AM panel post Covid at Comic-Con<\/a>, as Star Wars creator George Lucas<\/a>, 3x Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro<\/a> and Oscar winning Death Becomes Her production designer Doug Chiang gathered to tease to a very packed Hall H, the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tFor Lucas, it was the first time he\u2019s appeared onstage at San Diego Comic-Con.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe panel was narrated by Oscar nominee Queen Latifah. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a temple to the people\u2019s art,\u201d said Lucas about the Mobius-strip building designed by Ma Yansong which is opening next year near the USC campus in downtown Los Angeles. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI refused to sell it,\u201d says Lucas whose been collecting myriad comic books and thrifty pieces of art since his youth.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of Lucas\u2019 inspirations for opening the museum stemmed from the filmmaker needing a place to display his 40,000 pieces of art. But also, it\u2019s about creating an epicenter that pays respect to the myth-telling pop art which has informed our culture. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c(Art) is more about a connection and emotional connection with the work, not how much it cost or what celebrity did it. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s anything anyone will tell you. If you have emotional connection, it\u2019s art. If you don\u2019t, just move onto the next painting,\u201d Lucas added.<\/p>\n

\n\tdel Toro, who is a board member at the new museum, says that after surviving the L.A. fires earlier this year, he\u2019s looking to the new museum as a place to house his own personal collection of art. <\/p>\n

\n\tChiang says the museum \u201cis giving respect to an artform that hasn\u2019t been honored before.\u201d The designer credits comic books for setting him on course to a creative career. However, during his youth, comic books were never respected. He gave props to Lucas who told him that when creating any art, it requires a story behind it. Chiang worked in the art department on Star Wars: Episodes I-III and went on to be a production designer on current Disney Lucasfilm projects such as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Disney+ series The Mandalorian, Ahsoka and Skeleton Crew. <\/p>\n

\n\tChiang shared, \u201cI hope this museum inspires the next Norman Rockwell or Frank Frazetta.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tDropped exclusively in the room was a sizzle reel narrated by Episodes I-III star Samuel L. Jackson which previewed some of the prolific works attendees can expect, i.e. General Grievous bike, the landspeeder from the original Star Wars, and Anakin Skywalker\u2019s spaceship from Star Wars: Episode I \u2013 The Phantom Menace. Many of the Star Wars pieces of art, in particular those from concept artist Ralph McQuarrie, will be housed in the cinema gallery, one of 30-40 galleries at the museum. <\/p>\n

\n\tOther works include paintings from Frida Kahlo, Norman Rockwell, and comic-book work from R. Crumb and Jack Kirby. Of note, there\u2019s also the very first character drawing of Flash Gordon from 1934, the original Peanuts comic strips from the 1950s and 1960s, the original drawing from the first Iron Man cover in 1968, and also the first pen and ink splash of Black Panther from 1968. <\/p>\n

\n\tLucas, in speaking about his adoration for Rockwell\u2019s Thanksgiving \u201cFreedom From Want\u201d painting said \u201cfamily is important, it keeps society together, even if it\u2019s tough.\u201d As Lucas mentioned in the sizzle reel, family, is a chief reason why he\u2019s building the museum. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe realize that stories shape the world,\u201d says del Toro, \u201cone of the narrative branches brutally applied is propaganda. Art is celebrating the work of incredible people, but also is celebrating the thing that belongs to us: Myth, belongs to us. Propaganda belongs to a very small group. Myth unites us and propaganda divides us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe panelists also discussed how the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art\u2019s building has no right angles, just curves. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe intent for that stems from the notion that art is endless in its life, it outlives humanity, and passes on to the next generation who can savor and prize it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was arguably the first big Sunday AM panel post Covid at Comic-Con, as Star Wars creator George…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15661,171,60809,58203,64072,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-97869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-comic-con","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-george-lucas","11":"tag-guillermo-del-toro","12":"tag-lucas-museum-of-narrative-art","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114927686432524641","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}