Star Wars creator George Lucas drew fresh admiration from fans across the globe courtesy of a sizzling new shoot.
Lucas, 82, became an unlikely new sex symbol courtesy of a youthful Vogue shoot promoting his upcoming $1billion Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in LA – with fans exclaiming ‘Bro is dripping with Aura.’
In the shoot, a clean-shaven Lucas posed with wife Mellody Hobson, 57, in his stunning museum, which is set to open this September.
The five-story, 300,000-square-foot building will house his extensive collection of paintings, illustrations and movie memorabilia with a focus on the art of storytelling from the time of cave paintings to digital film.
However fans couldn’t get enough of Lucas’ style and ageless looks, with one writing, ‘I wasn’t expecting Lucas to have an ‘Abercrombie model’ phase in his twilight years- wait, what?
Others wrote, ‘It wasn’t enough for him to change cinema with Star Wars, he also has the most amazing hair for his age or any age.
Star Wars creator George Lucas drew fresh admiration from fans across the globe courtesy of a sizzling new shoot (seen in December 2024)
Lucas, 82, became an unlikely new sex symbol courtesy of a youthful Vogue shoot promoting his upcoming $1billion Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in LA – with fans exclaiming ‘Bro is dripping with Aura’ – pictured with wife Mellody Hobson in November 2025
‘unreal hairline at like 100 years old, wtf is wrong with him.
‘He has aged like a fine wine.
‘He lost a good amount of weight, good for him.’
The filmmaker funded the project himself after selling his production company and the rights to Star Wars to Disney for $4 billion in 2012.
Lucas previously said the museum would focus on the art of storytelling from the time of cave paintings to digital film, which he said detailed the ‘mythology of society’.
However, though the futuristic building design resembles a spaceship that would fit right into Star Wars, Lucas insisted it wasn’t about that.
‘Everybody calls it a Star Wars museum. But it’s not a Star Wars museum… because people aren’t gonna come to a Star Wars museum. They can go to Madame Tussauds for that,’ he told CBS.
Exhibits would show off items from his films like set designs, character and costume sketches, storyboards, and stage sets.
However fans couldn’t get enough of Lucas’ style and ageless looks, with one writing, ‘I wasn’t expecting Lucas to have an ‘Abercrombie model’ phase in his twilight years- wait, what?’ – pictured April 2026
But most of Lucas’ collection was made up of paintings by Renoir, N.C. Wyeth, Winslow Homer, Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell.
‘I think more people will come in for Rockwell than will come in for Star Wars. Norman Rockwell can tell a whole story in one picture,’ he said.
Lucas said he was ‘captivated’ by the 20th Century New York painter from age eight, when he knew he wanted to be an illustrator and storyteller.
The museum will be in Exposition Park, near the University of Southern California, where Lucas earned a degree in film in the 1960s.
At the time of the monumental Lucasfilm sale—also including his company’s Industrial Light & Magic and the rights to Indiana Jones—Lucas compared parting with Star Wars to losing a family member.
‘These are my kids, I loved them. I created them,’ he told CBS at the time.
However, after selling the Star Wars rights to Disney, Lucas didn’t hold back in expressing his dissatisfaction with The Force Awakens, the first film in the franchise following the sale.
In a 2015 interview with Empire Magazine, Lucas admitted he wasn’t happy with the film, stating that Disney ‘wanted to make a retro movie’ and didn’t follow his planned direction for the series.
Lucas on set of 1977’s Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
However, after selling the Star Wars rights to Disney, Lucas didn’t hold back in expressing his dissatisfaction with The Force Awakens, the first film in the franchise following the sale; (with Jake Lloyd for Star Wars Episode I – The Phantom Menace – 1999)
He also mentioned that he felt the film was too similar to the original trilogy, saying, ‘They wanted to make a movie for the fans… They decided they didn’t want to use the stories I created.’
He did somewhat backtrack on his initial criticism of The Force Awakens after the film’s release.
In later interviews, he acknowledged that while he had concerns about the direction of the film, he ultimately appreciated the work done by J.J. Abrams and the team at Disney.
He even praised the movie’s success, though he still expressed that it wasn’t quite what he would have done.
