THX 1138: Lucas Before the Galaxy Far, Far Away

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0000

There is a version of George Lucas that most people never think about: severe, formalist, allergic to sentiment, more interested in framing a figure against blank space than in giving anyone a hero to root for. That Lucas made exactly one feature before the merchandise swallowed the myth. THX 1138 came out in 1971, sank at the box office, and then sat for decades as the strange cold thing at the front of the filmography — the debut nobody expects from the man who later taught a generation to cheer.

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THX 1138: Lucas Before the Galaxy Far, Far Away