# Have Lucas, Coppola and Spielberg ever worked together on a single movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 25, 2003, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-lucas-coppola-and-spielberg-ever-worked-together-on-a-single-movie/215177 "2003-11-25T13:55:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-lucas-coppola-and-spielberg-ever-worked-together-on-a-single-movie/215177/1 "2003-11-25T13:55:22Z")
I was just wondering if George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg have ever all worked together on the same film? If so which one. If not do you think the final result of such a collaboration would be an epic event? A Mega Movie of sorts from the directorial standpoint? ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-lucas-coppola-and-spielberg-ever-worked-together-on-a-single-movie/215177/2 "2003-11-25T13:59:07Z")
I’m inclined to think the final result would never really get off the ground. Three directors, at least two of which have demonstrated major talent, all of whom have differing artistic visions, and all of whom are used to getting their own way? I dunno about that. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-lucas-coppola-and-spielberg-ever-worked-together-on-a-single-movie/215177/3 "2003-11-25T14:37:41Z")
Lucas produced films for both Spielberg (Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc.) and Coppola (Tucker). There were also stories that he did some second unit directing on Raiders, but I don’t see any confirmation. Lucas also did the script for Raiders. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-lucas-coppola-and-spielberg-ever-worked-together-on-a-single-movie/215177/4 "2003-11-25T14:43:13Z")
Coppola was one of the producers for **American Graffiti** , directed by Lucas. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-lucas-coppola-and-spielberg-ever-worked-together-on-a-single-movie/215177/5 "2003-11-25T15:02:27Z")
INDIANA JONES AND THE TRIP DOWNRIVER TO KURTZ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-lucas-coppola-and-spielberg-ever-worked-together-on-a-single-movie/215177/6 "2003-11-25T17:04:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FriarTed \* > \*\*INDIANA JONES AND THE TRIP DOWNRIVER TO KURTZ \*\* The horror, the horror… ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-lucas-coppola-and-spielberg-ever-worked-together-on-a-single-movie/215177/7 "2003-11-25T21:42:55Z")
No, but they each made a play for **Julia Phillips**. Oh, the disgust, the disgust. ---
**Author:** ![Chavardz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Chavardz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chavardz)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-lucas-coppola-and-spielberg-ever-worked-together-on-a-single-movie/215177/8 "2003-11-25T22:57:25Z")
The IMDB Says Coppola & Lucas colaborated on the folloing: American Graffiti (1973) Captain Eo (1986) Filmmaker (1968) George Lucas: Heroes, Myths and Magic (1993) Godfather: Part III, The (1990) Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991) Kagemusha (1980) Making of ‘American Graffiti’, The (1998) (TV) Making of ‘Captain Eo’, The (1986) (TV) Making of ‘The Rain People’, The (1969) Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, A (1998) (TV) Powaqqatsi (1988) R2-D2: Beneath the Dome (2001) (TV) Rain People, The (1969) 6.6/10 (228 votes) Return to Oz (1985) THX 1138 (1971) Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) Unauthorized Star Wars Story, The (1999) ( ---
**Author:** ![Chavardz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Chavardz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chavardz)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-lucas-coppola-and-spielberg-ever-worked-together-on-a-single-movie/215177/9 "2003-11-25T23:05:21Z")
Now, Coppola and Spielberg: George Lucas: Heroes, Myths and Magic (1993) R2-D2: Beneath the Dome (2001) (TV) Return to Oz (1985) Unauthorized Star Wars Story, The (1999) (V) ---
**Author:** ![Chavardz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Chavardz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chavardz)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-lucas-coppola-and-spielberg-ever-worked-together-on-a-single-movie/215177/10 "2003-11-25T23:15:37Z")
Now In George Lucas: Heroes, Myths and Magic (1993) all three apeared as themselves, so it doesn’t really count. In Return to Oz (1985) Speilberg and Coppola are uncredited assistant directors and Lucas gets special thanks. Not really impressive. In R2-D2: Beneath the Dome (2001) (TV) all three are uncredited themselves. Finally in Unauthorized Star Wars Story, The (1999) (V) all three are themselves. I think it’s safe to say they never worked on a project together. ---
**Author:** ![Gamaliel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b487fb/32.png) [@Gamaliel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gamaliel)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-lucas-coppola-and-spielberg-ever-worked-together-on-a-single-movie/215177/11 "2003-11-25T23:21:34Z")
Mistah Spielberg, he dead. ---
**Author:** ![archmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@archmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/archmichael)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-lucas-coppola-and-spielberg-ever-worked-together-on-a-single-movie/215177/12 "2003-11-25T23:45:27Z")
Funny. When I read the title of the thread I was horrified by the thought. Thanks to Spielberg it would probably take place in the ultra glossy, near future, with very pretty lighting, and lots of shafts of light. Coppola would want to make it a trilogy, but ruin it by casting his daughter in the third one. Lucas would go on to make it a nine movie story arc, and claim that it was always his intention to do so ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-lucas-coppola-and-spielberg-ever-worked-together-on-a-single-movie/215177/13 "2003-11-26T12:56:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by archmichael \* > **Coppola would want to make it a trilogy, but ruin it by casting his daughter in the third one.** I’ve always thought Sopfia Coppola was the BIGGEST problem with Godfather III. But, in all fairness to FF, Winona Ryder did drop out at the _very_ last minute. Any delay in beginning production would have cost big bucks. He needed to replace a principle cast member and he needed to do it _quickly_. (That said, I _do_ wish he’d found another solution. God, she was _horrendous_!) .