THAT TIME GEORGE LUCAS GOT STUCK INSIDE THE SHARK FROM JAWS

The malfunctioning shark in Jaws is legendary, his mouth was working perfectly one night though when he caught George Lucas' head between his teeth. Talk about Star Jaws, or so the story goes.

That's right, the then future Star Wars (1977) director got his head clamped in the mouth of Bruce the shark...and he couldn't get it out. All of which gives the force is strong with this one a whole new meaning!

It's said that Lucas was being shown the shark after hours by Steven Spielberg, and is was he who worked the mechanism and shut on on his friend. That's some way to thank the man who recommended Richard Dreyfuss after appearing in his own American Graffiti (1973).

Not that Lucas and Spielberg were the only people there that night, so were Martin Scorsese and John Milius. They struggled to free Lucas, but finally managed to get him free but fled where Bruce was being stored, frightened that the shark was broken.

Well, you know the rest. Lucas didn't lose his head over the episode, with him and Spielberg remaining firm friends and collaborators, just look at the Indiana Jones series: RAIDERS OF THE LOST SHARK: JAWS AND INDIANA JONES

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Milius helped Spielberg get Quint's USS Indianapolis speech perfected, to what degree depends on who you speak to to, but we've tried to make sense of that here: The Writers Who Brought Jaws To The Screen

And Scorsese, he drove Spielberg round on the opening day of Jaws, where they both witnessed scores of people queuing round the block to catch Brody, Quint and Hooper battle the great white shark. Suitably, their jaws were open as they drove by numerous movie theaters to witness the beginning of the first summer blockbuster.

Ingmar Bergman meets one of the three sharks used in "Jaws" (1975) a few months after the film's release. This the last known photograph of any of the original "Bruce" sharks. (photo by John Bryson)

However, this story of Lucas getting stuck in the mouth of the Jaws shark comes with a 25 foot caveat, none of the men said to be involved have ever commented on the curious incident of the shark in the night, with George Lucas.