Episode DCXXXVII: 50 Years of Filming Star Wars - June 1976
Full Of Sith: Star Wars News, Discussions and Interviews
Tha Mike Pilot, Bryan Young and Consetta Parker
4.3 • 780 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Recorded live at Indiana Comic Convention - Holly Frey and Bryan Young gathered before a live audience to talk about the challenges facing the production of A New Hope, the original Star Wars film as George Lucas worked feverishly to complete the film as Fox got more and more impatient with how over schedule and over budget the film was. Still, he had some decisions to make.
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| 0:00.0 | Industrial Light and Magic, it says it all. |
| 0:05.0 | I always wrote for the technology I had available to me. |
| 0:12.0 | And how do you move it ahead? |
| 0:17.0 | Computer graphics is the future. |
| 0:20.0 | ILM's ready to do the Phantom Menace. |
| 0:22.6 | This was an enormous undertaking and the scale and scope of it was overwhelming. |
| 0:30.6 | I know it's going to work because it's impossible. |
| 0:36.6 | This was the first time we were going to create a CG character that could look at a because it's impossible. |
| 0:43.3 | This was the first time we were going to create a CG character that could live in a live action film. Boom! |
| 0:44.3 | We weren't prepared for the backlash. |
| 0:49.3 | But because we were all together, we were going to make this thing work. |
| 0:58.5 | Oh, it's a movie based on a theme park ride. |
| 1:02.3 | How do you make a story out of that? |
| 1:06.3 | The challenge came from Spielberg. |
| 1:08.0 | Can you make digital tornadoes? |
| 1:10.4 | I didn't want to go down in history as the guy who wrecked Yoda. |
| 1:13.6 | No puppet. It's a fully digital character. |
| 1:16.6 | The old way of doing things was going to be gone. |
| 1:19.6 | It was all hands on DAC. |
| 1:21.6 | Everyone worked really hard, but we also all played together. |
| 1:25.6 | So much magic was made here. |
| 1:28.3 | Ilam was created to do the impossible, |
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