It began in the summer of 1977. George Lucas was vacationing in Hawaii as his space epic Star Wars broke the box office records all over. With Lucas was his friend Steven Spielberg, fresh from the successes of Jaws (1975) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
A collaboration was in the wind. Spielberg said he wanted to make a James Bond film. Lucas contended he had an idea “better than James Bond”, and proceeded to narrate the plot of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
