In a rare interview, the Star Wars creator and cinema technology pioneer opens up about what could prove to be his most personal and grandest legacy of all, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. On a mild morning in Cannes, not long after receiving an honorary Palme d’Or from Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas is thinking about a patio. “I remember one of the times I was here,” he says, gesturing vaguely toward La Croisette. “I got to sit next to Fellini at the hotel on the patio there. It was a big thrill.” The memory makes him smile, but Lucas, now 81, does not linger in it. His attention moves elsewhere, towards a project that has consumed him for more than a decade and that, unlike any of his films, cannot be revised in post production. In Los Angeles, in Exposition Park, The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has reached its final stages of construction.…