This blind is about HOW he came to be infertile.

The permanent A++ list producer/director/writer/mogul is sterile.

This isn’t news because it’s well known that all of his children are the result of adoption or sperm donations.

One of his wives left him over the fact he couldn’t produce his own offspring.

Rather, this blind is about HOW he came to be infertile.

When he was younger, he was involved in a serious accident in which he nearly died.

He spent over a year recovering, during which time he solidified his career choice. He has always been vague about the nature of his injuries, and with good reason.

Some of the most severe injuries were to his private parts.

Surgeons managed to save the penis, but the testes were damaged beyond repair.

His devastation at losing his chance to have a natural family was one of the reasons he got into film.

If he couldn’t have kids, he had to leave his legacy in another way.

This attitude paid dividends until he started adopting and the quality of his films noticeably began to drop off.

George Lucas

The car crash that changed the galaxy

Long before he took a real interest in cinema, when he was just a kid in Modesto, California, Lucas had the need for speed. He was obsessed with cars and racing, and he used the money he earned working as a delivery boy at his father’s stationery store to buy his first car an Autobianchi Bianchina, an Italian minicar based on the Fiat 500.

He wasted no time souping it up, of course. He put in time working as a mechanic at a local Renault garage, and worked on his own car at the garage after hours. When he wasn’t at the garage (or at school, where he was barely scraping by), he was cruising the main streets of Modesto, competing in street races and discovering girls.

“Modesto was a small town, and there were only a couple of theatres,” he told Film Quarterly in 1974. “When I went to the movies, I really didn’t pay much attention. I was usually going to look for girls or goof off.”

And then, on June 12, 1962, just three days before his high school graduation, life caught up with George Lucas.

He was driving his hotted-up Autobianchi Bianchina home from the library when his classmate, Frank Ferreira, tried to pass him at high speed in a Chevrolet Impala. Lucas didn’t see him, went to make a left turn into his driveway, and got broadsided by Ferreira.

Lucas’ car rolled several times before wrapping around a tree. A picture of the wreck ran on the front page of The Modesto Bee the next day.

Ferreira, behind the wheel of the bigger, heavier Chevy, walked away with barely a scratch.

And somehow, Lucas survived, too. Barely.

On the third roll, Lucas’ seatbelt snapped, throwing him from the vehicle. A bystander, who happened to be in the right place at the right time, pulled Lucas clear of the wreckage and called an ambulance.

When paramedics arrived on the scene, Lucas wasn’t breathing and he had no heartbeat. He was rushed to the hospital in critical condition (in other circumstances, he probably would have enjoyed the high-speed race against time).

His lungs were crushed, and he hovered close to death in intensive care for the next two weeks. He pulled through, but had to spent several months convalescing in hospital.

“I spent some time in the hospital, and I realised that it probably wouldn’t be smart for me to be a race driver — especially after this accident,” Lucas told Starlog in 1981.

“Before that first accident you are very oblivious to the danger because you don’t realise how close to the edge you are. But once you’ve gone over the edge and you realise what’s on the other side, it changes your perspective.

“I was in a club with a lot of guys who were race drivers — one of ‘em went on and drove at Le Mans — and he eventually quit too because of the same thing. You see what the future is there, and you realise that you’ll probably end up being dead. That’s where most of them end up; it’s inevitable, because the odds are if you stay with it long enough that’s what will happen to you.

“And I just decided that maybe that wasn’t for me. I decided I’d settle down and go to school.” – Source