{"id":703989,"date":"2026-05-30T15:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/703989\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:34:12","slug":"star-wars-editor-marcia-lucas-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/703989\/","title":{"rendered":"“Star Wars” Editor Marcia Lucas Has Died"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Lucasfilm<\/p>\n

Oscar-winning film editor Marcia Lucas, ex-wife of filmmaker George Lucas and the editor of the original \u201cStar Wars,\u201d has died. She was 80.<\/p>\n

Lucas reportedly passed away on Wednesday in Rancho Mirage, California, from cancer.<\/p>\n

Following an apprenticeship program, she became the assistant to lauded \u201cJaws\u201d editor Verna Fields and assisted on editing films like \u201cMedium Cool\u201d and Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s \u201cThe Rain People\u201d.<\/p>\n

She met a USC film student hired to assist Fields \u2013 George Lucas \u2013 and the pair married in 1969. She assisted on Lucas\u2019 \u201cTHX 1138\u201d and both Fields and Marcia Lucas edited George\u2019s \u201cAmerican Graffiti\u201d.<\/p>\n

Her first solo editing gig was Martin Scorsese\u2019s \u201cAlice Doesn\u2019t Live Here Anymore\u201d before she went on to supervise editing on his \u201cTaxi Driver\u201d and \u201cNew York, New York\u201d films.<\/p>\n

Then came \u201cStar Wars\u201d with Lucas as one of three editors on both the original 1977 film and 1983\u2019s \u201cReturn of the Jedi\u201d. She also made some contributions to Steven Spielberg\u2019s \u201cRaiders of the Lost Ark\u201d. She and Lucas divorced in 1983.<\/p>\n

Her family said in a statement: \u201cMarcia will be remembered as a brilliant storyteller, a trailblazer for women in film, a loving mother and grandmother, a generous host, and a loyal friend whose humor and sparkle filled every room she entered. Her influence on film is indelible, but those who knew her best will remember the way she made life feel more vivid, more beautiful, more fun, and more full of love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: THR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucasfilm Oscar-winning film editor Marcia Lucas, ex-wife of filmmaker George Lucas and the editor of the original \u201cStar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[112110,49,48,75],"class_list":["post-703989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bigslider","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}