Skywalker Ranch

The Skywalker Ranch is the name given to the offices of the producing and Réalisateur George Lucas located in the Comté of Sailor in California. These buildings gather several subsidiary companies of the company Lucasfilm Ltd. such as Skywalker Sound or Lucas Licensing. The buildings are not opened with the public, although certain curious fans try to be introduced there. When the president Ronald Reagan asked to visit Skywalker Ranch, little time after Lucasfilm lost its lawsuit to prevent the government of the time from using the name the Star Wars for its program of Initiative of strategic defense, its request was refused.

Built piece per piece, Skywalker Ranch extends on 19 km ² and would have cost 100 million dollars according to an investigation of the Wall Street Journal . In spite of the protests of the residents which claimed that the ranch polluted the environment, Lucasfilm their receipt four other close ranches adding 12 other km ² to the park. However, only 60.000 m ² are built today by it.

The Ranch contains a cattle shed, vineyards, a garden with an orchard and a kitchen garden whose harvests are used in the restaurants of the personnel, an external swimming pool, a center of fitness, its own brigade of firemen, an artificial lake baptized “lake Ewok”, many rooms of projection and an underground car park in order to preserve the landscape. The ranch also shelters Skywalker Sound, the files of the Star Wars films. The principal building also contains a library.

The symbol

This building is also the symbol of the independence of Lucas with respect to Hollywood: indeed this dream goes up at the time of THX 1138 where with his/her friend Francis Ford Coppola, in the Utopia of beginning of the year 70, they dreamed to have a place dedicated to cinematographic creation in margin of the Hollywood system. Unfortunately, this dream could not succeed, but the success which Star Wars knew allowed finally has Lucas to reach that point. Thus Skywalker Ranch presents a calm and idyllic framework favourable with creation and has all the infrastructures necessary to the post-production of a film.

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • Inside Skywalker Ranch: Illustrated account of the visit of a fan

Source

  • “secrecies of Skywalker Ranch”, Lucasfilm Magazine , n°27 (2001) p. 24-31.

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