SAN DIEGO – Comic-Con will feature George Lucas on stage for the first time. While “Star Wars” will certainly be mentioned, his debut at the San Diego pop culture event is primarily for a preview of his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, which has been in development for years.
The Comic-Con panel on Sunday in the prominent Hall H will serve as a modest finale to the four-day event that showcased numerous major, thrilling previews of upcoming sci-fi and superhero films.
This panel will also provide a broader conversation about the museum’s focus: exploring the histories and traditions of narrative art throughout various times and cultures.
Lucas will be joined by fellow filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro and art director Doug Chiang, who has worked on a steady series of “Star Wars” films starting with the Lucas-directed prequels in 1999. Queen Latifah will act as moderator.
Lucas is easily on the Mount Rushmore of figures whose work has had the greatest inspiration on the kind of films and other pop cultural celebrated annually in Hall H at Comic-Con.
But the convention wasn’t a common showcase for blockbuster films when he was directing them himself. And he sold “Star Wars” and Lucasfilm to the Walt Disney Co. in 2012, and Disney has used different venues to make big splashy presentations about its properties.
The museum founded by Lucas and his wife, businesswoman Mellody Hobson, is set to open next year in Exposition Park, near the Los Angeles Coliseum, several of the city’s other museums, and the University of Southern California.
The 11-acre campus and 300,000-square-foot building designed by architect Ma Yansong includes galleries, two theaters and related spaces.
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