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    Star Wars Episode VIII "The Last Jedi" Coming December 15, 2017

    There's a third volume too, pretty much covering ILM this century. I haven't looked at that one. I had the first one till it fell to five pieces, loved it. The 2nd volume was rewritten practically from scratch in something like 3 weeks, and there are points where it shows. I remember there...
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    Star Wars Episode VIII "The Last Jedi" Coming December 15, 2017

    My computer overheated about 5 paragraphs into my Cushman reply yesterday morning (maybe it caught my pneumonia) and I let it go, but I think you can't even trust the stuff that is supposedly drawn from the record, given that others who have looked at these very same memos (and reproduced them...
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    Star Wars Episode VIII "The Last Jedi" Coming December 15, 2017

    The Carol Publishing book (EMPIRE BUILDING?) is the worst, it is just graphs and graphs swiped out of everybody else's work on the history of the first tril, and even though they make wholesale lifts, they STILL misspell like mad. They're the people who did an unauthorized SEINFELD book and got...
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    Star Wars Episode VIII "The Last Jedi" Coming December 15, 2017

    The initial deal for SW was in place long before Cantwell too - his stuff didn't make any difference except giving ILM a point of departure on the spacecraft. The McQuarrie stuff is what supported GL's later script which got the project officially more than just a development deal. The preprod...
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    Star Wars Episode VIII "The Last Jedi" Coming December 15, 2017

    Was it Vaz' name? Mark Vaz has been doing lots of the making-of stuff on lucasfilm projects for years I think he was slated as co-author on the book in question, at least for awhile ...
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