Curated category
American epic films
- Star WarsGeorge Lucas began developing his own space opera in 1971 after failing to secure the rights to adapt a Flash Gordon serial.
- Star Wars (film)George Lucas conceived a space opera in 1971, shortly after finishing his first feature film THX 1138. He initially planned to adapt the Flash Gordon serials…
- 2001: A Space OdysseyStanley Kubrick told a publicist from Columbia Pictures in 1964 that his next project would be about extraterrestrial life.
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two TowersFrodo Baggins awakens from a dream of Gandalf fighting the Balrog in Moria, finding himself and Samwise Gamgee lost in the Emyn Muil near Mordor.
- Return of the JediLuke Skywalker stands before the massive jaws of a rancor, his lightsaber glowing green in the dim light of Jabba the Hutt's palace.
- Gone with the Wind (film)Selznick International Pictures spent two years delaying the start of filming until January 1939. The production was troubled from its inception, with…
- Titanic (1997 film)James Cameron stared into the dark Atlantic in 1985 and saw a ghost. He had spent years studying shipwrecks, but the Titanic felt like Mount Everest to him.
- The GodfatherIn 1967, a literary scout for Paramount Pictures contacted Peter Bart about an unfinished sixty-page manuscript titled Mafia.
- The Birth of a NationD. W. Griffith began filming on the 4th of July 1914 and finished by October 1914. The production used approximately 150,000 feet of footage to create a…