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Star Wars, the Lost Interviews

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-should-get-screenwriter-credits-this-time dept.

smooth wombat writes "Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the Release of Star Wars, Ballantine Books is publishing J.W. Rinzler's "The Making of Star Wars", which bills itself as "The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film." The book is the result of Rinzler's discovery of interviews that Charles Lippincott, Lucasfilm's VP marketing and merchandising in the mid-'70s, conducted with the film's principals between 1975 and 1978."

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  1. It's gonna be $75... by Control-Z · · Score: 3, Informative


    Some photos and text up at: http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/multi media/2007/04/gallery_starwars

  2. I Remember This! by tb3 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Back when Star Wars first came out, Starlog magazine spent an entire issue devoted to Stars Wars. They mentioned somewhere that Charles Lippincott was writing a book called "The Making of Star Wars", inspired by "The Making of Star Trek" book, but it never appeared.

    I'm really glad to see that some of this material is finally seeing the light of day.

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  3. Re:Enough Already by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    the sfx in star wars were nothing short of staggering for the time. you are clearly about 18 years old and didnt see the original theatrical release. as such you have fuck all perspective on it.

  4. Re:Which Version Will They Show by Khisanth+Magus · · Score: 3, Informative

    Do you really have to ask? It will be the "enhanced" version of course. Lucas wants to pretend that the original versions never existed.

  5. Re:Enough Already by FingerDemon · · Score: 2, Informative

    My understanding was that during the three years you mention, ILM was revolutionizing some of the special effects techniques used later by everyone. So comparing it to ESB, isn't just a matter of budget. But perhaps I am wrong and you can convince me by naming some movies during that time that had better effects than SW and bigger budgets. I know Close Encounters came out somewhere soon after SW. That was Douglas Trumbull SFX and lots of lights which is pretty different from the effects in SW. Still it looked good. I just don't remember many SF movies even trying to do effects like SW until after SW came out and was a huge hit.

    Plus you say it was "budget constrained", but at the time I thought it was a big budget for an SF film.

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  6. Re:Some excerpts by Cervantes · · Score: 3, Informative

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  7. Re:you got it wrong by happyDave · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yoda fades away as well, leaving no body behind. I would say that is a repetition.

  8. Re:I doubt this will include interviews where Luca by Flamerule · · Score: 2, Informative

    What should become obvious to anyone who has seen the prequels, Lucas set the original Star Wars as "Episode IV" mainly because it meant that he could drop people into an established setting without really explaining how it came to be; had Lucas made it "Episode 1" most of the movie would be an attempt to explain how the empire came to be.
    No. Did Ridley Scott have to spend most of Blade Runner explaining how that world came to be? The original Star Wars was titled Star Wars; Lucas invented the "Episode IV" stuff later.