Hands Off, Pal

George Lucas, center, was a car-mad gearhead from Modesto, California who went on to create perhaps the greatest film franchise of all time, which evolved from a complicated story of “Luke Starkiller” to a soaring epic about a boy, a girl, and a mysterious Force that bounds the whole universe together.

He’s seen above with Peter Cushing as Moff Tarkin and Carrie Fisher as his young adversary, Princess Leia Organa.