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 thirty years–a 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 never-before-published “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.
OK this is a book i might not pik up. I dont need a bunch of piks. I allready have the 2 houer doc’ on DVD or was that 4 houers. Anyways I wnat to see the live action TV show! I’m hoping its not on the Sith wars. Cuz that would suck. it will be the only story that we keep getting back story. And we all know how it ends up. Sith died, Old Rep’ died (we just seen that) Emp’ takes over. Vader dies. Cool now we get to see how luke builds the new Rep’. thats the shit i want to see. Or Shadows of the Emp’. Now that would be cool too. but not the back STORY!!! NO MORE GOING BACK!!!!. [-(