Just uploaded a batch of 16 more photos from Paris. I like this one in particular.
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I mentioned The Making of Star Wars book by J.W. Rinzler, who also did The Making of Episode III, yesterday. Well I dug up both an Interview with J.W. Rinzler as well as the making of The Making of Star Wars, from which I took this quote:
[…] Rinzler opens The Making of Star Wars in 1971 with the disastrous screening of THX 1138 for Warner Bros executives. According to the book, Warner executives essentially took the film away from Lucas after viewing the film’s first cut. “It starts there because, even though it could’ve been the end of Lucas’s career, it led to his meeting a series of people who helped get Star Wars made,” says Rinzler. “And in a circuitous route, the THX debacle forced Lucas’s friend Francis Ford Coppola to make The Godfather, which later enabled Lucas to make American Graffiti. George was also trying to get Apocalypse Now made during this time, and his failure to do so had a huge impact on Star Wars.”
That whole era of film making is my well of inspiration, which makes me even more giddy to get my hands on this book. In fact, I just finished reading The Apocalypse Now Book and went through all the extras on the Apocalypse Now Complete Dossier DVD (which isn’t quite as complete as it sounds, since Hearts of Darkness isn’t included, and that surely is an essential component in the Apocalypse Now puzzle!).
Anyway, with that, the upcoming Star Wars anniversary, the Ralph McQuarrie book on the cusp of release and me going to watch Apocalypse Now Redux in the cinema with my brother on thursday, my head is securely immersed in the 70’s era of film.
Be aware though, if you’re interested in picking up this little treasure trove, that there is a 50 page difference between the paperback and the hardcover editions!
“Thankfully, Del Rey allowed us to up the page count from around 250 to 324 pages. And the deluxe hard cover has 372 pages, featuring all the early storyboards — and George Lucas’s first recorded thoughts on the Expanded Universe. I didn’t know if he’d want us to print those, as they differ from what came after, but he said it was okay!”
PS: J.W. Rinzler by the way, has his own blog at StarWars.com.
PPS: And of course, if you’re interested in the history of Lucas, Star Wars and the technology that followed both, you simply have to check out the amazing Droidmaker. One of the best books I read last year.
I was lucky enough to pass by the scene of a vandal, which made for a good photo:
Wired has a great celebratory image series called ‘The Making of Star Wars’, which are from an upcoming book called just that. It even has a few images I haven’t even seen before, which is quite something.
Though strictly (and geekily) speaking, despite what slide #4 Lucas didn’t necessarily decide to make Leia Luke’s twin in the third draft of Star Wars. In fact, there are no indications of the familiar relationships between Luke, Leia and Vader at all in the first Star Wars movie, nor, to my knowledge, in the script (or any of its drafts).
All this is of course in celebration of Star Wars’ 30th anniversary, coming up mid-may.
PS: If you want to buy me a copy of the book, perhaps for my birthday on the 30th or in appreciation of the rather massive Star Wars flickr set I’ve got going, it’s on my Amazon wishlist :) — Kidding of course… Unless you’re gonna do it :D
What the title says. I’m a massive Bourne fan, and their stinkin’ trailer site is teh blows (again!). Great; thanks Yahoo. Please; pass the baton to Apple, they know what they’re doing.
Either way, that’s one exclusive trailer. So exclusive in fact that I can’t watch it…
Update: Despite everyone writing in to tell me that it works, I can assure you that it still doesn’t work. And this is not the first time a trailer decides not to play for me on Yahoo’s site.
Update: At work now, on a Windows machine. Still doesn’t work. I’m wondering if they’re blocking countries on the IP. Usually things like that are listed on the page, but I see nothing…
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