Lucas was always associated with Star Wars (at least from the early 80's). Even as a little kid I knew who he was.
I posted something on IMDB that I wanted to post here, since it hasn't been brought up yet:
Blade Runner has NOT been cut "sixteen ways from Sunday." There is a workprint version, which is standard for pretty much every movie (not that they all get released), there is the theatrical cut, and then the directors cut, which only removes the voice over and studio ending and inserts one unicorn shot. Hardly anything extensive for a director's cut and not NEARLY as extreme as the Star Wars Special Editions. And again, there are a whole bunch of movies that get director's cuts.
The Final Cut only fixes a few technical and continuity problems. The only shot that could be considered superfluous would be the eye contracting in the beginning, but I doubt most people would even notice it. The only other significant change is an insert of the geisha gals that lasts about three seconds (and it was filmed at the time the rest of the movie was filmed). The only really controversial change would be changing the one f-word to the word "father." (which I admit is unnecessary). It's basically the same movie as the director's cut.
