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The Making of Star Wars by J.W. Rinzler, Peter Jackson

5.0

funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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This book is a fabulous, well-researched look at not only the making of Star Wars but really at George Lucas’s beginnings and how it all led to him making Star Wars and his own company. 

I feel that reading this further emphasizes the fact that George Lucas is brilliant. You can see how Star Wars, despite at first being written as one movie, though later revisions started adding ‘Episode I’ into the title, that there was a whole galaxy worth of ideas here. He had so many characters, species, worlds that were never meant for just one movie. As he continued doing revisions, you can see the world-building and character development that became foremost to the story. 

My favorite parts were reading through each draft and script revision, watching as the story got closer and closer to the Star Wars we know. And seeing how he knew some elements he wanted right from the beginning, including names! 

It was just utterly fascinating learning everything that went into making the first Star Wars. All the behind the scenes you would never know. One of my favorite BTS moments was learning on the last day of on-location shooting they couldn’t stop R2 from moving and he ended up on the production of Jesus of Nazareth which was filming in the same town! That had me laughing out loud at the very idea! 

All in all, this book is amazing; I read it from cover to cover. It has so much information about George Lucas, his two movies before Star Wars, the process of trying to get Star Wars started, how they started making their own technology, etc. I learned so much that I had never known before, and I love Star Wars! Making movies is hardly a simple process especially when the studio is against you the whole way.  I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone wanting to know more about Star Wars, George Lucas, or what really goes into making a movie. You certainly won’t be disappointed!