In 1977, when George Lucas had the guts (or was naive enough) to storm cinemas with a space fairy tale in which a princess had to be rescued from the clutches of a malevolent man with a German helmet, Kubrick's 2001 was still the standard for space spectacle. Lucas was not intimidated by this and reinvented everything himself for Star Wars. Although...
His initial notes for what would become his life's work were loosely based on the Japanese adventure film The Hidden Fortress by Akira Kuros...
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