Comments on: Interviewing George Lucas

By: shahesh

shahesh — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:13:40 +0000

this film is good

By: Jinn sparrow

Jinn sparrow — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:04:29 +0000

I have always been a fan of yours since age 5, I play the Clone Wars Adventures. Jinn is my character name, I was wonder if you could make the dueling with Yoda on clone wars easier. The game is designed for hard players but I am struggling, can you make the game easier? So can you fix it?

By: Siddique Hussain

Siddique Hussain — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:12:04 +0000

Thanks JW for that insigtful but succinct blog post on interviewing the creator. These new coffee table ‘making of’ books are a huge undertaking but thanks to the ‘archiving everything’ nature of Lucasfilm and your work in putting together these books together they will be enjoyed and be very informative as we’ll as educational for generations of film fans and historians for decades to come. Imagine if the studios of old had taken the same approach for the classics of cinema, like Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia or 2001 A Space Odyssey.

By: oxward321

oxward321 — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:17:11 +0000

I can’t wait for this tomb. I hope they go back and give Episodes I, II & III making of a deluxe treatment.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:23:52 +0000

Can’t wait for this book!

By: Nellith Skywalker

Nellith Skywalker — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:59:51 +0000

I eagerly await this book, but I hope the cuts to the preproduction chapters will not be too extensive – at least in terms of information about story and “world” definition. I am especially curious about the very early development of ROTJ.

Around that time, Lucas seems to have been really considering a 9-film “trilogy of trilogies” plan. Said plan appears to have been pretty amorphous even then, but there are quotes from him from around that time that suggest he had at least a few notes and notions on the direction it would go. The “Other” (before it was turned into Leia) seems to have been one such connection.

The last chapters of The Making of Star Wars seem to overlap temporally with the first chapters of The Making of The Empire Strikes Back. Because of this, comments in one book seem to find corollaries or explanations in the other. For example, the quote about certain aliens having a higher sense of the Force (from TMoSW, in the appendices) dovetails nicely with the Bunden Debannen/Buffy “Chosen One” stuff early on in TMoESB. As one of the last things mentioned in TMoESB is the Sequel Trilogy, I dearly hope the same holds true for anything you (JW Rinzler) were able to uncover about the very early development for ROTJ. And I really hope that if that’s the case, it actually makes it into the book (or that you are allowed to tell us about it later).

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 01:45:04 +0000

I’m clearly behind the times because I didn’t think Jedi was getting a new ‘making of’ book, it being the only Star Wars movie to already of had one.
Although it is obscure to say the least and was a little disappointing back in ‘83 after the wonderful ‘A Journal of The Making of ESB’

I cannot wait for your definitive Making of Jedi though, I hope there’s some new unseen art work from my favourite designer Nilo Rodis!

Thanks!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:25:27 +0000

If anyone reads this I would love to interview George Lucas

By: Rob Keil

Rob Keil — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 03:13:15 +0000

Great blog post that really lets us as readers see inside the process. Can’t wait for the ROTJ book, love the other 3 you have already done.

By: Kenny Kraly Jr.

Kenny Kraly Jr. — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 02:52:24 +0000

Great article J.W. Rinzler I like all your star wars books that you have written over the years like sounds of star wars , the making of star wars and the making of the empire strikes back and I’m looking forward to the making of return of the jedi. I also hope one day their will be updated making of books on the prequels. Keep up the good work J.W. and may the force be with you always.