J.W. RINZLER

In May, 1977, the release of "Star Wars" changed movies forever. Now to commemorate the film's 30th anniversary, Rinzler presents the exclusive, official, never-before-in-print story behind the original movie, with a new interview with George Lucas, along with new material from the Lucasfilm archives that has literally been shelved for years.

Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of "The Empire Strikes Back," this lavish, fully illustrated book offers an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the making of arguably the greatest of the "Star Wars" films. Includes never-before-published photos, design sketches, paintings, and more.

El libro que estábamos esperando ya está aquí. Indiana Jones Historia de una Saga nos revela a modo de making of todo lo que hasta el momento no habíamos tenido la oportunidad de saber. Todos los detalles sobre la tetralogia en una edicion espectacular de 300 paginas a color, con prologo de Steven Spielberg y prefacio de George Lucas. Todos los secretos de los rodajes, anecdotas que quedaron en el ostracismo, curiosidades (como los guiños a Star Wars o las audiciones de Tom Selleck), entrevistas en exclusiva y en profundidad de todos los integrantes del staff de Indiana Jones y El Reino de la Calavera de Cristal, ademas de una cronica exhaustiva sobre el rodaje de las cuatro peliculas y cientos de fotografias a todo color en el que resulta ser la gran enciclopedia de Indiana Jones. Un curso acelerado en magia cinematografica, con aportaciones de los maestros del septimo arte recopiladas por los veteranos cronistas Laurent Bouzereau y J.W. Rinzler. ¡El libro defintivo sobre Indiana Jones! Una mirada detras de las camaras que desvela absolutamente todo sobre esta epica saga cinematografica. Prologo de Steven Spielberg y Prefacio de George Lucas. Entrevistas exclusivas con los miembros del rodaje de Indiana Jones y El Reino de la Calavera de Cristal Centenares de imagenes a todo color: fotografias, bocetos, ilustraciones, storyboards... Detallada cronica de la produccion de cada una de las tres primeras peliculas. Arte y otras maravillas ineditas de los archivos de Lucasfilm. Todos los secretos y curiosidades del rodaje de la cuarta pelicula de Indiana Jones.

This is it-the climax of the greatest science fiction movie epic of all time, and Star Wars fans can venture behind the scenes for all the fascinating details. From the first story discussions to the final stages of post-production, The Making of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith is an exclusive, unprecedented look at the crafting of the most anticipated and perhaps the most important Star Wars film ever. Packed with hundreds of never-before-seen photos and interviews with the visual-effects teams, cast, and crew-including writer/director George Lucas and producer Rick McCallum-this outstanding volume offers a rare insider''s look at the complete creative process. Granted unprecedented access to all those involved at every stage of the film-from Skywalker Ranch to the sets at Fox Studios, Australia-author and Lucasfilm senior editor J. W. Rinzler captures in riveting detail the intense drama and cliffhangers that occurred as production worked day and night for three years to bring their monumental undertaking to conclusion. Readers will uncover details on how the art and animatics departments teamed up with ILM to create the spectacular opening sequence, perhaps the greatest Star Wars space battle ever produced revelations on the genesis of archvillain General Grievous within the Episode III art department accounts of how George Lucas and Rick McCallum reached critical decisions in often pressure-laden situations exclusive interviews with Hayden Christensen and Ewan McGregor on how they prepared for their thrilling lightsaber duel as Anakin and Obi-Wan an eyewitness account of the reappearance of Darth Vader on theset in Sydney, Australia Finally, there''s the film editing-Lucas''s favorite part of the moviemaking process. This portrait of the legendary director captures the down-to-the-wire tension encountered in getting to the final cut. Fueled by his imagination and his beginnings as a documentary filmmaker, Lucas makes films the way some painters create canvases, building layer upon layer in each frame of the film. And this book takes the reader along for the ride.

Packed with breathtaking visuals created by a team of world-class artists, The Art of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith charts the visual genesis of this epic saga's climactic finale. For years, George Lucas's handpicked group has created characters, costumes, droids, starships, planetary vistas, digi-matte paintings, and sculptures-every type of visual imaginable.

This enhanced eBook transforms The Making of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi into an immersive multimedia experience worthy of the original film. It features exclusive content pulled from the Lucasfilm archives by author J. W. Rinzler: 27 minutes of rare behind-the-scenes video* 20 minutes of rare audio interviews with the cast and crew New bonus photos and artwork not found in the print edition Just as Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi completed the most successful cinematic trilogy of its generation, perhaps of all time, this splendid thirtieth-anniversary tribute completes New York Times bestselling author J. W. Rinzlers trio of fascinating behind-the-scenes books celebrating George Lucass classic films. Once again, the authors unprecedented access to the formidable Lucasfilm Archives has yielded a mother lode of extremely informative, vastly entertaining, and often unexpected stories, anecdotes, recollections, and revelations straight from the closely guarded set of a big-screen blockbuster in the making. Brimming with previously unpublished photos, production artwork, script excerpts, exclusive intel, vintage on-set interviews, and present-day commentary, The Making of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi chronicles how George Lucas and his crew of extroverted artists, misfits, and expert craftspeople roused themselves to great heights for a third time to create the next unforgettable chapter in one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Get up close to the action and feel like a studio insider as creator George Lucas, Oscar-nominated screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan, and director Richard Marquand huddle in a script conference to debate the destinies of iconic Star Wars characters, as well as plot twists and turns for the epic final showdown between the Rebel Alliance and the Empire artists and craftspeople at the groundbreaking Industrial Light & Magic facility top their own revolutionary innovationsdespite the infamous Black Fridaywith boundary-pushing new analog visual effects a crack team of sculptors, puppeteers, actors, and monster-makers bring Jabba the Hutt and his cohorts to startling, slobbering life from the inside out a whos who of heavyweight directorsfrom such films as Superman, Gremlins, Halloween, Dune, Scanners, and Time Banditsare considered for the coveted job of bringing a new Star Wars adventure to the silver screen actors and crew race to the finish line at Elstree Studios, in a fiery desert, and beneath the trees of a dense redwood forestbefore money runs outto answer the questions that audiences had waited three years to find out: Is Darth Vader really Lukes father, who is the otherand who or what is the Emperor? Star Wars stars from both sides of the cameraincluding Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse, Alec Guinness, director Richard Marquand, producer Howard Kazanjian, Ralph McQuarrie, Joe Johnston, Dennis Muren, Phil Tippett, and mastermind George Lucasweigh in with candid insights on everything from technical challenges, character design, Ewoks, the Empires galactic city planet, and the ultimate challenge of bringing the phenomenal space fantasy to a dramatic close. The Making of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi gives a spectacular subject its just due, with more than five hundred images and many, many new interviews.*Video may not play on all readers. Please check your user manual for details.

This enhanced eBook transforms The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back into an immersive multimedia experience worthy of the original film. It features exclusive content pulled from the Lucasfilm archives by author J. W. Rinzler: 28 minutes of rare behind-the-scenes video* 29 minutes of rare audio interviews with the cast and crew New bonus photos and artwork not found in the print edition In this lavish thirtieth-anniversary tribute to the blockbuster film Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, New York Times bestselling author J. W. Rinzler draws back the curtain to reveal the intense drama and magnificent wizardry behind the hit moviearguably the fan favorite of the Star Wars Saga. Following his The Making of Star Wars, the author has once again made use of his unlimited access to the Lucasfilm Archives and its hidden treasures of interviews, photos, artwork, and production mementos. The result is a comprehensive behind-the-scenes, up-close-and-personal look at the trials and triumphs, risks and close calls, inspiration, perspiration, and imagination that went into every facet of this cinematic masterpiece. Heres the inside scoop on: the evolution of the script, from story conference and treatment to fifth draft, as conceived, written, and rewritten by George Lucas, famed science-fiction author Leigh Brackett, and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan the development of new key characters, including roguish hero Lando Calrissian, sinister bounty hunter Boba Fett, and iconic Jedi Master Yoda the challenges of shooting the epic ice planet battle in the frozen reaches of Norway and of conjuring up convincing creatures and craftfrom tauntauns and snowspeeders to Imperial walkers the construction of a life-sized Millennium Falcon and the swamp planet Dagobah inside a specially built soundstage in Elstree Studios the technique behind master Muppeteer Frank Ozs breathing life into the breakthrough character Yoda the creation of the new, improved Industrial Light & Magic visual effects facility and the founding of the now-legendary Skywalker Ranch In addition, of course, are rare on-the-scene interviews with all the major players: actors Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and David Prowse; director Irvin Kershner; producer Gary Kurtz; effects specialists Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston, and Phil Tippett; composer John Williams; and many others. Punctuating the epic account is a bounty of drawings, storyboards, and paintings by Ralph McQuarrie, Joe Johnston, and Ivor Beddoes, along with classic and rare production photos. An added bonus is a Foreword by acclaimed director Ridley Scott. The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is a fittingly glorious celebration of an undisputed space-fantasy movie milestone. Search your feelings, you know it to be true.*Video may not play on all readers. Please check your user manual for details.

This enhanced eBook transforms The Making of Star Wars into an immersive multimedia experience worthy of the original film. It features exclusive content pulled from the Lucasfilm archives by author J. W. Rinzler: 26 minutes of rare behind-the-scenes video* 29 minutes of rare audio interviews with the cast and crew New bonus photos and artwork not found in the print edition After the 1973 success of American Graffiti, filmmaker George Lucas made the fateful decision to pursue a longtime dream project: a space fantasy movie unlike any ever produced. Lucas envisioned a swashbuckling SF saga inspired by the Flash Gordon serials, classic American westerns, the epic cinema of Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa, and mythological heroes. Its original title: The Star Wars. The rest is history, and how it was made is a story as entertaining and exciting as the movie that has enthralled millions for more than thirty yearsa story that has never been told as it was meant to be. Until now. Using his unprecedented access to the Lucasfilm Archives and its trove of lost interviews, photos, production notes, factoids, and anecdotes, Star Wars scholar J. W. Rinzler hurtles readers back in time for a one-of-a-kind behind-the-scenes look at the nearly decade-long quest of George Lucas and his key collaborators to make the little movie that became a phenomenon. Its all here: the evolution of the now-classic story and charactersincluding Annikin Starkiller and a huge green-skinned monster with no nose and large gills named Han Solo excerpts from George Lucass numerous, ever-morphing script drafts the birth of Industrial Light & Magic, the special-effects company that revolutionized Hollywood filmmaking the studio-hopping and budget battles that nearly scuttled the entire project the directors early casting saga, which might have led to a film spoken mostly in Japaneseincluding the intensive auditions that won the cast members their roles and made them legends the grueling, nearly catastrophic location shoot in Tunisia and the subsequent breakneck dash at Elstree Studios in London the whos who of young film rebels who pitched in to helpincluding Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, and Brian DePalma But perhaps most exciting, and rarest of all, are the interviews conducted before and during production and immediately after the release of Star Warsin which George Lucas, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Sir Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels, composer John Williams, effects masters Dennis Muren, Richard Edlund, and John Dykstra, Phil Tippett, Rick Baker, legendary production designer John Barry, and a host of others share their fascinating tales from the trenches and candid opinions of the film that would ultimately change their lives. No matter how you view the spectrum of this phenomenon, The Making of Star Wars stands as a crucial documentrich in fascination and revelationof a genuine cinematic and cultural touchstone.*Video may not play on all readers. Please check your user manual for details.

George Lucas spent nearly ten years bringing his dream project to life: a ground-breaking space fantasy movie. It would be a swashbuckling sci-fi saga inspired by vintage Flash Gordon serials, classic American westerns, and mythological heroes. Its original title: The Star Wars. The rest is history. Yet its production is a story as entertaining and exciting as the film itself. Now, recounted in the words of those who were there, it is finally being told, for the first time.During the years 1975 to 1978, over fifty interviews were conducted with key members of the cast and crew. Remarkably these interviews have sat, undisturbed, in the Lucasfilm Archives for three decades. Until now.The interviews are fresh, candid and above all more accurate than many other reported accounts. George Lucas, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, composer John Williams, legendary production designer John Barry, and a host of others share their fascinating tales of overcoming obstacles storms, crises, technical limitations, high stress and bitter disappointment while displaying real ingenuity, heroism and creativity.Using his unprecedented access to the Lucasfilm Archives and this trove of never-before-published lost interviews, photographs, production notes, factoids and anecdotes, J. W. Rinzler hurtles readers back in time for a definitive look at the making of Star Wars. For the first time, its all here:* The evolution of the now-classic story and characters including Annikin Starkiller and a huge green-skinned monster with no nose and large gills named Han Solo* Excerpts from George Lucass numerous, ever-morphing script drafts* The birth of Industrial Light & Magic, the special-effects company that revolutionised Hollywood film-making* The studio-hopping and budget battles that nearly derailed the entire project* The directors early casting saga* The gruelling, nearly catastrophic location shoot in Tunisia and the following breakneck dash to Elstree Studios in LondonLavishly illustrated with hundreds of images spanning the creation of the film, The Making of Star Wars is a piece of cinema history. It is the true story of human endeavour and creativity that led to the production of one of the most outstanding and innovative movies of all time.