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Eight years after its 2018 groundbreaking ceremony, the $1bn Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is scheduled to finally open its doors in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park on 22 September. Founded by the Star Wars director George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson (a former Starbucks chair and current chief executive of Ariel Investments), the long-delayed…

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Production designer Norman Reynolds’ robot R2-D2, left, and John Mollo’s costume for the C-3PO character from the “Star Wars” franchise are displayed in the Cinema Gallery during a preview of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, in Los Angeles.A sculpture of the “Star Wars” character Yoda is displayed along a…

The exciting announcement regarding Lucasfilm’s long-abandoned Star Wars Detours animated comedy series finally finding a home at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art wasn’t the only news to come out of the museum’s panel this afternoon at San Diego Comic-Con 2026 in Southern California. We also learned quite a bit more about the new institution’s…

George Lucas believes artificial intelligence (AI) is the “future” of movie making – because it makes the process “much easier”