"Star Wars" filmmaker George Lucas has settled on Los Angeles for the home of his $1 billion storytelling museum, after pulling the project from Chicago last year. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Tuesday that the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will be located in Exposition Park in downtown Los Angeles. Garcetti immediately moved to woo the filmmaker to house the museum in Los Angeles. The proposed museum, valued at $1 billion and funded by Lucas, would feature exhibitions of Lucas' collection of paintings, illustrations and digital art from the blockbuster "Star Wars" movie franchise he started in 1977. Lucas sold his "Star Wars" franchise to Walt Disney Co. in 2012 for $4 billion.

Source: Egypt Independent January 13, 2017 12:08 UTC