The legendary screenwriter ('Star Wars,' ever heard of it? 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' ditto?) opens up about his career, working with George Lucas, and how ILM changed Hollywood forever
. Kasdan writes great lead characters as well as ensemble films, but he’s also a throwback to the screenwriters of the old studio system who can write memorable small parts—think Mickey Rourke and Ted Danson inThat said, leave it to Kasdan to be interested chiefly in the people behind the effects at ILM, rather than the effects themselves. Which isn’t to say he’s indifferent to the wonders of visual wizardry.
You know, I always thought that directing movies is the best job on earth. What is so attractive about it is that you get to do all these things at once. And if you’re written them too, you’ve created the problems. And then what happens from the moment someone says, yes, we’ll make that screenplay into a movie, then hordes of people come to you who have been training their whole life to be good at what they do. Even if what they do is find locations.
The first few episodes of the show was about the formation of ILM and its early projects. As the series goes on, however, the major storyline is the emergence of digital technology. Muran was one of the old-school heads who embraced the new technology. Even though there was much resistance—at ILM and the industry as a whole—Lucas understood this is where we were headed.
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