What clearly shines through the tiny-fonted and skimpily-indexed text is Lucas’ stubborn determination to make Star Wars his way. He assumed a character and responded to questions about his or her background, personality, home planet, and so on.” Included in the Deluxe Edition is a priceless chapter, “George Lucas expands his universe” a narrative set down in 1977 to `record his knowledge of the world he’d created.’ Rinzler writes, “The communication technique he hit upon was similar to role-playing. Because I worked there, I had the luxury to go through the image archive” for months. Most people are noticing the black and whites - those were always in the image archives and people didn’t know about them. Rinzler notes that a gold mine of unpublished photos were “in the image archive. They intended to make a book back then, but circumstances were such that the files were put away.” “At first I saw (John) Dykstra (visual effects guru) and then (George) Lucas and I thought it would be wonderful if the actors were there - and there they were.”Ĭharles Lippincott, then Lucasfilm’s vice president of marketing and merchandising, “had gathered a huge quantity of material for a making-of book. “I knew we were making a book, when I found (the interviews),” Rinzler says.

“I used to drive by and look at the lines and think, `what?'” “ Star Wars got an amazing response,” Carrie Fisher says. None of them knew they were part of an epoch-changing movie.

Those interviews, with actors Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill who spoke frankly on their roles and experiences, were done before the film’s 1977 release.

(This) is almost an oral history based on the interviews done in 1975-1977.” The difficulties of making Star Wars have been well documented elsewhere but Rinzler says, “There were a lot of stories circulating out there by people (who) either hadn’t done the research, or aren’t lucky enough to have the interviews. Rinzler has gone back into the archival materials at Skywalker Ranch and produced a hefty, and pricy, art book crammed with newly unearthed interviews early, crudely drawn sketches of now-classic spaceships and unpublished photographs. In The Making of Star Wars: the Definitive Story, Jonathan W.

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