Despite building out one of the most enduring franchises in history, George Lucas has felt pretty distant from Star Wars lately. Lucas directed his last Star Wars film more than 20 years ago and passed the Lucasfilm reins on to Disney in 2012. The franchise has since tried to move on without him, while Lucas himself seems to be enjoying a retirement of sorts.
The legendary director has spent the past 10 years quietly working on a very different kind of project, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, alongside his wife, Mellody Hobson. The scope of the museum feels pretty removed from the work he did at Lucasfilm: In a comprehensive preview with Vogue, Lucas and Hobson led with the idea of mythmaking in art, the foundational stories we find in anything from an ancient cave drawing to a Wonder Woman comic strip. And that certainly sounds like the main focus of the museum when Inverse caught up with its senior curator, Ryan Linkof, at San Diego Comic-Con 2026.
