SAN DIEGO (AP) — George Lucas is lastly coming to the stage at Comedian-Con. And whereas “Star Wars” is bound to get a point out, the 81-year-old is making his debut look on the San Diego pop cultural extravaganza for a extra earthbound motive: a preview of his long-in-the-works Lucas Museum of Narrative Artwork in Los Angeles.
The Sunday panel dialogue in Comedian-Con’s vaunted Corridor H will act as a comparatively quiet closing act to the four-day pageant that introduced its normal collection of massive, bombastic appears at upcoming sci-fi and superhero tasks.
The museum-centered session can be meant to be a broader dialogue of the brand new establishment’s material: the histories and traditions of narrative artwork throughout time and cultures.
Lucas can be joined by fellow filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro and artwork director Doug Chiang, who has labored on a gradual collection of “Star Wars” movies beginning with the Lucas-directed prequels in 1999. Queen Latifah will act as moderator.
Lucas is definitely on the Mount Rushmore of figures whose work has had the best inspiration on the form of movies and different pop cultural celebrated yearly in Corridor H at Comedian-Con.
However the conference wasn’t a typical showcase for blockbuster movies when he was directing them himself. And he bought “Star Wars” and Lucasfilm to the Walt Disney Co. in 2012, and Disney has used totally different venues to make large splashy displays about its properties.
The museum based by Lucas and his spouse, businesswoman Mellody Hobson, is about to open subsequent yr in Exposition Park, close to the Los Angeles Coliseum, a number of of the town’s different museums, and the College of Southern California.
The 11-acre campus and 300,000-square-foot constructing designed by architect Ma Yansong contains galleries, two theaters and associated areas.
