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Forty-two years is an incredibly long time over which to tell a story. I can’t think of any examples of stories that have been told over such an extended period that have had such cultural prominence. I was there pretty much from the start when, as a 7 year old, I became obsessed with collecting. I had the Palitoy (as they were in the U.K.) Star Wars action figures and collected the sticker albums. I was prone to dressing up in a painfully rigid PVC Darth Vader costume that smelled funny with a mask that left an angry red mark around the edge of my face when removed after my journey to the dark side had become unbearable or the frail elastic that held it to my head had snapped.…

IN CONVERSATION WITH… Carrie Fisher, 1982

Can you tell us something about your experience making the Star Wars movies? I grew up in the Star Wars saga. While everyone else was 25 to 30, I was only 19 when the filming started. You can see me growing in each new episode. I used to kid everyone on the set by saying that I had an excuse—I was a teenager, but why were all these grown-ups shooting guns, and playing with all the big toys? I almost think I look totally different now. I came into Star Wars straight from an English drama school. Quite a jump. I played Leia Organa, who is a royal. Leia is angry, which is part of her strength but not all of it. She was very clear about her responsibilities toward…

IN CONVERSATION WITH… Carrie Fisher, 1982

The Soundtrack of Her Life

As Imperial stormtroopers overwhelm the rebel forces on the Tantive IV in the opening minutes of A New Hope, Princess Leia delivers a small data tape to astromech droid R2-D2. Leia turns to leave, and the image is accompanied by a short, muted burst of seven notes, the first two of which are separated by six steps on a musical scale—what’s known as a major-sixth interval. Through the film, this cue will recur in a variety of forms, developing on each occasion and ultimately becoming the theme that we inextricably link with Leia. This idea of having musical themes or “motifs” associated with key characters was central to writer-director George Lucas and composer John Williams’ shared vision for the music of Star Wars. In the vein of classic Hollywood composers…

The Soundtrack of Her Life

John Williams recorded the music for the original Star Wars with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) over the course of 14 three-hour scoring sessions from March 5 to March 16, 1977. David Cripps was the LSO’s principal horn at the time, and at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, he took part in a retrospective panel dedicated to A New Hope’s music and sound. During that session, he recalled playing the French horn solo for Leia’s theme. “The Princess Leia theme is surely one of the most beautiful tunes that anybody ever wrote,” he said. “It shows the genius of John Williams to great effect—not just because it’s a wonderful tune, but because he wrote it for the best instrument in the orchestra! “I remember it so well, even 40 years…

TEASER TRIUMPHS!

STAR WARS TEASER TRAILER, 1976 “TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX AND GEORGE LUCAS, THE MAN WHO BROUGHT YOU AMERICAN GRAFFITI NOW BRING YOU AN ADVENTURE UNLIKE ANYTHING ON YOUR PLANET—STAR WARS!” The first footage of Star Wars that audiences saw came in this portentous trailer, which promised the story of “a boy, a girl, and a universe,” and “aliens from a thousand worlds!” The narrator signed off with the boast that the movie was “a billion years in the making,” but we can forgive a bit of hype, especially as Jurassic Park (1993) would use a similar line in its ad campaign 16 years later. A highly unusual trailer for the time, the film uses fast editing as opposed to the slow takes that were more common in the late 1970s. These…

TEASER TRIUMPHS!

Painting the Galaxy

The Death Star’s chasms. Bespin’s Cloud City. The Ewoks’ village in the trees of Endor. The Gungans’ home beneath the waters of Naboo. The starship graveyard of Jakku. The rainsoaked crags of Eadu. What could unite such disparate vistas? From the beginning of the Star Wars saga through to its most recent big-screen installments, matte paintings have helped realize far-flung settings that dazzle the eyes and fuel the imagination. By the time George Lucas formed Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) to create the visual effects for the original Star Wars, multiple variations of the technique—which combines a live-action element with painted scenery in order to create the illusion of a larger setting—had been developed and refined. The processes by which visual effects artists bring matte paintings to cinematic life would…

Painting the Galaxy

CANYON OF THE CRESCENT MOON

“Camerawork was 50 percent of the matte painting, and all the matte painters were interested in using any trick they could to make things more realistic photographically. Mark Sullivan was one of the best ever at combining paintings and camera techniques. He had a bag of tricks you wouldn’t believe. “He really liked using miniatures, so I worked with him a lot. For Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, there was a shot looking through a pair of binoculars at the Canyon of the Crescent Moon. Mark did the matte painting on Masonite, and it looked really good, but he didn’t think it looked realistic. So he had me cut the bottom off of the painting, just below the horizon, and then we built about a 20-foot-by-2-foot miniature of the…

CANYON OF THE CRESCENT MOON

McQUARRIE’S STAR WARS

Star Wars Insider: These books are absolutely exhaustive! Where do you even start in putting together a project such as this? Brandon Alinger: The first step was assembling the team. [Former Lucasfilm executive editor] Jonathan Rinzler offered me the opportunity to author it after we published Star Wars Costumes: The Original Trilogy in 2014. I knew it would be a mammoth undertaking and I knew David Mandel was a McQuarrie collector and enthusiast, and David knows Wade, who shares the same passions. So the three of us assembled, without realizing exactly what we were getting into at that time. The exciting thing was that everyone was committed to doing the definitive book—to showing all the artwork. I think that was the biggest draw for us to work on this project.…

McQUARRIE’S STAR WARS

The first four Star Wars figures ever made were Chewbacca, R2-D2, Princess Leia, and Luke Skywalker. Included in the legendary Early Bird Kit, these four were sent to kids in the mail in the early months of 1978. While three of the four were standard figures, the Luke was special as his lightsaber was an early Kenner design that was soon discarded. Rather than the single-piece saber, the Early Bird Luke had a two-piece saber: a main shaft that slid in and out of the arm, and a smaller filament that slid in and out of the shaft. Collectors have come to call this the Double Telescoping lightsaber (or DT for short). When Kenner was creating product concepts for the action figures, Bernie Loomis, the president of the company at…

50 THINGS TO NOTICE IN STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS

1 BRINGING BALANCE Lor San Tekka, played by legendary stage and screen actor Max Von Sydow, speaks the first line of dialogue in the film. According to the Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary, San Tekka is a seasoned traveler and explorer who spent the dark times as a follower of the Church of the Force. Although not Force-sensitive, he, like many others, strongly believed in the Jedi ideals. During his conversation with Resistance pilot Poe Dameron, played by actor Oscar Isaac, Lor San Tekka almost immediately references the balance of the Force, saying, “Without the Jedi, there can be no balance.” Qui-Gon Jinn and Mace Windu first mentioned the concept of bringing balance to the Force in The Phantom Menace. 2 FRIENDS REUNITED? During the battle near…

50 THINGS TO NOTICE IN STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS

INTERROGATION DROID

What’s Lando’s greatest asset? His unparalleled charm, of course! That was one of the things that I thought was very important to that character. Lando’s smile is bigger than: a) A Cloud City exhaust port, b) Jabba the Hutt, or c) Boba Fett’s reputation. The Milky Way! When Lando owned the Millennium Falcon, did he trick out his ride? He didn’t need to. He owned something that was comparable to Las Vegas. I think he was more concerned with the mechanics of the Falcon. What drink did Lando most frequently sip while playing sabacc? Colt 45! [For years, Williams was the commercial spokesman for the brand.] Do you think Lando ever toyed with the idea of leaving Han in carbonite so he could make a move on Leia? Oh, he…

INTERROGATION DROID

LAWRENCE KASDAN CO-WRITER STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

Star Wars Insider: How did you get involved in Star Wars? Lawrence Kasdan: I first met George Lucas in 1977. I had sold a screenplay to Steven Spielberg. Steven and George decided, based on that screenplay, that they wanted me to write Raiders of the Lost Ark. I was thrilled to do that. I was brand-new in the business and it was an amazing film to get for your first job. When I was finished with it, I took it up to Marin County to deliver it by hand to George Lucas. He threw it on the desk, and said, “C’mon, let’s go to lunch.” When we went to lunch, he said he was in trouble with The Empire Strikes Back because Leigh Brackett, who was working on it, had…

LAWRENCE KASDAN CO-WRITER STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

J.J. ABRAMS ON LAWRENCE KASDAN

“One of the most surreal and wonderful things was getting to know and collaborate with Lawrence Kasdan. He’s one of the most thoughtful, brilliant, considered, opinionated, funny, collaborative people I’ve ever met. He’s a hero of mine. If the movie didn’t go forward or if something went wrong, I wouldn’t have changed the investment of time. If there were an auction to work with Larry Kasdan in this way, I’d never stop bidding. There I was working on scenes with Han Solo, and Larry would be like, “I don’t think Han would say that. It’s not very Han.” I’d be like, okay, and I’d think, Well, he would know. He wrote Han Solo in some of the best moments in cinema history.”…

INTERROGATION DROID

Dark Father Knows Best: Luke wants to spend all his time racing speeders, hunting womp rats, and cantina-hopping. How can Dad Vader lay down the law without inciting teenage rebellion? Take the crystal out of his lightsaber, he should. No blue milk will he get with his cookies tonight. Extreme Hovel Makeover: Luke’s humble Tatooine abode may have been recklessly torched, but the structure’s still solid. How do you spruce up the charred adobe? Some fresh stucco and paint, and look like new it will. The “barbecued Beru” smell? Much harder to get rid of, that will be. Coruscant Crime Scene Investigation: Who’s trying to kill Senator Amidala this week? Help C-3PO and Jar Jar figure it out! The only clues are a toothpick, a bola, and a drop of…

INTERROGATION DROID

JOURNEY TO LOST STARS

At Celebration III, my first Star Wars convention, all of the books panels were standing-room-only events. For example, one panel I attended featured Matthew Stover previewing his upcoming novelization of Revenge of the Sith. Fans of the Expanded Universe, now called Legends, were keen to see more from the author of New Jedi Order: Traitor and Shatterpoint. Many of the panel’s attendees were regulars from message boards, with tags hung on our lanyards that identified our forum usernames. One by one, fans went to the microphone, and it became apparent from the parade of insightful questions how much about storytelling—point of view, characterization, dialogue—the audience had absorbed through interaction with the great storytellers writing Star Wars novels. This is as true of Star Wars authors and their wonderful stories now…

JOURNEY TO LOST STARS

THE POWER OF THE DARK SIDE: KYLO REN

“Villains have been so important in film history,” Roger Ebert once said, “you could almost argue there wouldn’t be movies without them. Film is the most dynamic storytelling known to man and it lends itself to melodrama and conflict: good guys versus bad guys.” And of Star Wars specifically, he said that, “each film is only as good as its villain.” It’s hard to argue with a man held as the gold standard of film criticism, and it’s through this lens we’ll be taking a look at Kylo Ren and what he adds to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Through the entire classic saga, the heroes of the Republic, then the Rebellion, are plagued by the phantom menace, Darth Sidious, and his grand plan for the Sith. Along the way…

THE POWER OF THE DARK SIDE: KYLO REN

MAD magazine might not be the first thing that springs to mind when it comes to Star Wars, but whenever a new Star Wars movie or TV show has debuted, MAD has always been there to parody it. That’s been the case ever since the beloved humor publication spoofed A New Hope in MAD #196 (January 1978). In fact, by 2007 there were enough MAD Star Wars spoofs to fill a book—namely the Del Rey collection MAD About Star Wars, authored by former Lucasfilm employee (and then-MAD editor) Jonathan Bresman. During the past 40 years, MAD has skewered the saga so frequently that—as of this writing—the last four issues of the magazine (up to and including MAD #540, August 2016) have all included at least one article or comic strip…

Tales From The Red Carpet THE LAST WORD ON THE LAST JEDI

Rian Johnson, the writer and director of The Last Jedi gave off an amazing aura of calm despite the excitement and frenzy of expectation that surrounded the film’s London premiere. “It feels great that people have been enjoying the movie,” he told Star Wars Insider. “I was just excited for fans and crowds to see it for the first time.” When asked about working with the late Carrie Fisher, Johnson was enthused yet thoughtful in his response. “First and foremost, she was a writer, and that’s how we first really connected. We had a lot of really nice moments on set, but the times I remember her best were when we were hanging at her house before the shoot. She was digging out books for me that she wanted to…

Tales From The Red Carpet THE LAST WORD ON THE LAST JEDI

LUKE SKYWALKER THE WIZARD’S JOURNEY

In discussions of the Hero’s Journey in contemporary storytelling, Luke Skywalker is one of the most frequently cited examples. Joseph Campbell—the academic whose work on the subject influenced George Lucas’ writing—viewed Luke’s path in Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) as a modern execution of what he called the “monomyth:” the archetypal hero’s story common to every culture and era. Likewise, Christopher Vogler—who reframed Campbell’s ideas into a model specifically designed for cinematic storytelling—used A New Hope as one of his primary examples in his 1992 book The Writer’s Journey. Yet Luke’s story did not, of course, end with A New Hope. What seemed like a complete Hero’s Journey in that film was expanded and developed upon in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1981) and Star Wars: Return of…

LUKE SKYWALKER THE WIZARD’S JOURNEY

BUILDING THE DEATH STAR

The Death Star. The mighty battle station constructed by the Empire at Emperor Palpatine’s behest was the ultimate weapon. The concept of a weapon the size of a moon capable of wiping out entire planets was so appealing, the Empire returned to the Death Star playbook for a second try after the first attempt met an explosive end. Hey, wouldn’t you? Though the weapon was meant to instill fear across the galaxy—and it accomplished the objective by targeting and blowing up Alderaan—the Death Star actually brought destruction to the Empire. When the Rebel Alliance exploited a weakness and turned the weapon into an expensive fireworks show, it marked a turning point in the Galactic Civil War. The Empire lost millions of soldiers and years of work and resources in a…

BUILDING THE DEATH STAR

PRACTICAL MAGIC THE SURPRISING EFFECTS OF THE PREQUELS

Steve Gawley worked as a model builder on the original Star Wars trilogy, and his resumé beyond that reads as a who’s who of all your favorite films: Jurassic Park, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Back to the Future, and the Indiana Jones trilogy to name just some. When the prequels went into production Gawley was a supervisor in the Industrial Light & Magic model shop. Speaking about the difference in practical effects between the trilogies, he says, “A New Hope had 350 effect shots, The Phantom Menace has 2,000, so that’s many times larger. On Episode I, we had five crews shooting miniatures at one time and we had 95 model makers.” Don Bies is a name you might recognize as one of those model…

PRACTICAL MAGIC THE SURPRISING EFFECTS OF THE PREQUELS

Star Wars Insider: Darth Vader helped kickstart Marvel’s Star Wars comics line in 2015. How did it come to be one of the two launch titles? Jordan D. White: One of the first ideas we had for the line was that we would have multiple ongoing series that happened simultaneously. It was definitely a departure from what had been done with Star Wars comics before, but it was much more in line with what Marvel does. When you buy comics for the various Avengers titles, they all take place together; and while they can be read separately, reading them together creates a richer universe. We wanted to do that with Star Wars as well. Once that idea was hatched, and it was obvious the main book would be Star Wars,…

JOE SCHREIBER’S FIVE FAVORITE STAR WARSSTAR WARS DEMISES

1 BEN KENOBI’S DEATH Death is rarely forever in the Star Wars universe, and Obi-Wan, of course, comes back later in the trilogy—but to this day, the moment on the Death Star when he allows Vader to kill him is still devastating. A crucial part of the story, Ben’s death actually means something, both narratively and metaphysically. He risks his life to disarm the tractor beam, and then engages Vader in combat knowing there’s no way that he can possibly defeat the Sith Lord physically: “If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.” That’s a pretty revolutionary thought, and Kenobi makes good on it in a way that shapes the way we think about the Force, redemption, and resurrection in the Star Wars…

JOE SCHREIBER’S FIVE FAVORITE STAR WARSSTAR WARS DEMISES

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