“She’s the type of producer who’s very supportive of the director, who does everything she can to help the director get his or her movie made,” Scott Farrar would say. “She’s a great person and I think one of the best producers probably in Hollywood. Kathy is always trying to achieve the best quality product. She is there to support the creative, and that’s a good producer in my book.”
Then on October 30, 2012, the world learned that Lucas had sold Lucasfilm, ILM, LucasArts, Skywalker Sound, and the rights to Star Wars and Indiana Jones to the Disney Company. He also announced that he would be a consultant on Episodes VII, VIII, and IX, Star Wars sequels that Kennedy would executive produce (later, spin-off movies were announced, with Lawrence Kasdan’s involvement). A company meeting took place the same day with Lucas, Kennedy, and Howard Roffman taking the stage. It was the end of an era and the beginning of another, and there was a steady outpouring of appreciation for work already completed on so many classic films and for the man who had created so much, expressed in several standing ovations.
Roffman had been in semi-retirement before Kennedy came on and asked him to return: “I would not have come back unless I truly believed that we were doing the right thing for Star Wars and, even more fundamentally, that we were entrusting its fate to people worthy of that trust. I believe in Bob Iger and his teams at Disney. I believe in Kathleen. And I believe in George and our company. My faith isn’t blind. It’s based on knowing these people for decades, knowing their talents, their achievements, their integrity, their commitment. For many of the pundits analyzing the Disney deal, we are often little more than abstractions based on résumés and numbers on a page. But for me it’s much more. My faith is the product of my life experience, what I know from living and working with the folks to whom the torch has been passed, who will now share responsibility for keeping the Star Wars flame burning bright.”
When Lucas told Hamill about Episode VII, the incarnation of Luke Skywalker told the author that he was “gobsmacked.” Not long afterward the writer and director were confirmed after Internet leaks: Academy Award winner Michael Arndt and J.J. Abrams. At the time this book goes to press, nothing else is known about the upcoming movies, though as Lucasfilm hums with excitement and a new end to the Skywalker saga is fashioned, all is being readied …
The Monster Shop crew.
ILM still photographer (cut off) Roberto McGrath, model machinist Mike Cochrane, model maker and engineer Larry Tan, model maker Paul Huston, model maker Sean Casey, and chief mold maker Wesley Seeds stand next to a table with the metallic prototype parts displayed for the large Chicken Walker model (used for the head-crushing gag).
Starting at noon: apprentice machinist Dave Hanks, cameraman Selwyn Eddy III, electronic engineer Marty Brennis, costume designer and concept artist Nilo Rodis-Jamero (with dark glasses), electronics system designer Jerry Jeffress, unknown, and effects cameraman Mike McAlister.
CAST AND CREW CREDITS (COMPLETE)
“I remember on Jedi posting all the ILM credits on the wall, and saying, ‘Go in there and check the spelling of your name and check your title, and if you have any problems, call us,’ ” says Howard Kazanjian. “They all did that and still a couple people didn’t notice that their names were misspelled.”
The following tries to correct those misspellings and to add those people who, at the time of the film, didn’t get their names on the credits for one reason or another.
Directed by RICHARD MARQUAND
Produced by HOWARD KAZANJIAN
Screenplay by LAWRENCE KASDAN and GEORGE LUCAS
Story by GEORGE LUCAS
Executive Producer: GEORGE LUCAS
Co-Producers: ROBERT WATTS, JIM BLOOM
Production Designer: NORMAN REYNOLDS
Director of Photography: ALAN HUME, B.S.C.
Edited by SEAN BARTON, MARCIA LUCAS, DUWAYNE DUNHAM
Visual Effects: RICHARD EDLUND, A.S.C., DENNIS MUREN, KEN RALSTON
Costume Designers: AGGIE GUERARD RODGERS, NILO RODIS-JAMERO
Mechanical Effects Supervision: KIT WEST
Makeup and Creature Design: PHIL TIPPETT, STUART FREEBORN
Sound Design: BEN BURTT
Music by JOHN WILLIAMS
Set Decorators: MICHAEL FORD, HARRY LANGE
Conceptual Artist: RALPH McQUARRIE
Art Directors: FRED HOLE, JAMES SCHOPPE
Assistant Art Directors: MICHAEL LAMONT, JOHN FENNER, RICHARD DAWKING
Set Dresser: DOUG VON KOSS
Construction Manager: BILL WELCH
Assistant Construction Manager: ALAN BOOTH
Construction Supervisor: ROGER IRVIN
General Foreman: BILL IIAMS
Construction Foremen: GREG CALLAS, GUY CLAUSE, DOUG ELLIOTT, STAN WAKASHIGE
Paint Foreman: GARY CLARK
Sketch Artist: ROY CARNON
Scenic Artist: TED MICHELL
Decor and Lettering Artist: BOB WALKER
Set Draftsmen: REG BREAM, MARK BILLERMAN, CHRIS CAMPBELL
Production Buyer: DAVID LUSBY
Construction Storeman: DAVID MIDDLETON
Location Director of Photography: JIM GLENNON
Additional Photography: JACK LOWIN
Operating Cameramen: ALEC MILLS, TOM LAUGHRIDGE, MIKE BENSON
Focus Pullers: MICHAEL FRIFT, CHRIS TANNER
Assistant Cameramen: LEO NAPOLITANO, BOB LA BONGE
Second Assistant Cameramen: SIMON HUME, STEVE TATE, MARTIN KENZIE, MICHAEL GLENNON
Gaffers: MIKE PANTAGES, BOB BREMNER
Aerial Photography: RON GOODMAN, MARGARET HERRON
Helicopter Pilot: MARK WOLFE
Key Grip: DICK DOVA SPAH
Best Boy: JOE CROWLEY
Dolly Grip: CHUNKY HUSE, REG HALL
Matte Photography Consultant: STANLEY SAYER, B.S.C.
Rigging Gaffers: CLARK GARLAND, TOMMY BROWN
Chief Makeup Artists: TOM SMITH, GRAHAM FREEBORN
Makeup Artists: PETER ROBB KING, DICKIE MILLS, KAY FREEBORN, NICK DUDMAN
Chief Hairdresser: PATRICIA McDERMOTT
Hairdressers: MIKE LOCKEY, PAUL LE BLANC
Chief Articulation Engineer: STUART ZIFF
Assistant Articulation Engineer: EBEN STROMQUIST
Armature Designer: PETER RONZANI
Plastic Designer: RICHARD DAVIS
Sculptural Designers: CHUCK WILEY, JAMES HOWARD
Key Sculptors: DAVE CARSON, TONY McVEY, DAVE SOSALLA, JUDY ELKINS, DEREK HOWARTH
Chief Mold Maker: WESLEY SEEDS
Mold Maker: RON YOUNG
Creature Technicians: RANDY DUTRA, KIRK THATCHER, DAN HOWARD, JAMES ISAAC, BRIAN TURNER, JEANNE LAUREN, RICHARD SPAH, JR., ETHAN WILEY
Creature Consultants: JON BERG, CHRIS WALAS
Production/Creature Coordinator: PATTY BLAU
Latex Foam Lab Supervisor: TOM McLAUGHLIN
Animatronics Engineer: JOHN
COPPINGER Wardrobe Supervisor: RON BECK
Costume Supervisor: MARY ELIZABETH STILL
Wardrobe Mistress: JANET TEBROOKE
Shop Manager: JENNY GREEN
Jeweler: RICHARD MILLER
Creature Costumers: BARBARA KASSAL, EDWINA PELLIKKA, ANNE POLLAND, ELVIRA ANGELINETTA
Property Master: PETER HANCOCK
Assistant Property Master: CHARLES TORBETT
Property Supervisors: DAN COLANGELO, BRIAN LOFTHOUSE
Property: HOLLY WALKER, IVAN VAN PERRE
Prop Makers: BILL HARGREAVES, RICHARD PETERS
Master Carpenter: BERT LONG
Master Plasterer: KENNY CLARKE
Master Painter: ERIC SHIRTCLIFFE
Supervising Rigger: RED LAWRENCE
Supervising Stagehand: EDDIE BURKE
Sail Coordinators: BILL KREYSLER, WARWICK TOMPKINS
Sails Engineering: DERRICK BAYLIS, PEGGY KASHUBA
Production Sound: TONY DAWE, RANDY THOM
Boom Operators: DAVID BATCHELOR, DAVID PARKER
Sound Assista
nts: SHEP DAWE, JIM MANSON
Audio Engineers: T. M. CHRISTOPHER, CATHERINE COOMBS, KRIS HANDWERK, K. C. HODENFIELD, HOWIE, TOM JOHNSON, BRIAN KELLY, JAMES KESSLER, SUSAN LEAHY, ROBERT MARTY, SCOTT ROBINSON, DENNIE THORPE, JOHN WATSON
English Lyrics by JOSEPH WILLIAMS
Huttese Lyrics by ANNIE ARBOGAST
Ewokese Lyrics by BEN BURTT
Re-Recording Mixers: BEN BURTT, GARY SUMMERS, ROGER SAVAGE
Music Recording: ERIC TOMLINSON
Orchestrations: HERBERT W. SPENCER
Supervising Music Editor: KENNETH WANNBERG
Re-Recording Engineer: TOMLINSON HOLMAN
Assistant Film Editors: STEVE STARKEY, CONRAD BUFF, PHIL SANDERSON, NICK HOSKER, DEBRA McDERMOTT, CLIVE HARTLEY
Sound Effects Editors: RICHARD BURROWS, THERESA ECKTON, KEN FISCHER
Dialogue Editors: LAUREL LADEVICH, CURT SCHULKEY, BONNIE KOEHLER, VICKIE ROSE SAMPSON
Assistant Sound Editors: CHRIS WEIR, BILL MANN, GLORIA BORDERS, SUZANNE FOX, KATHY RYAN, NANCY JENCKS, HELEN CEASMAN
Production Supervisor: DOUGLAS TWIDDY
Production Executive: ROBERT LATHAM BROWN
Unit Production Manager: MIKI HERMAN
Assistant Production Manager: PATRICIA CARR
Associate to Producer: LOUIS G. FRIEDMAN
First Assistant Director/Second-Unit Director: DAVID TOMBLIN
Second-Unit Director: ROGER CHRISTIAN (uncredited)
Second Assistant Directors: ROY BUTTON, MICHAEL STEELE, CHRIS NEWMAN, RUSSELL LODGE
Production Assistant: IAN BRYCE
Production Coordinator: LATA RYAN
Coordination Assistants: SUNNI KERWIN, GAIL SAMUELSON
Script Supervisor: PAMELA MANN-FRANCIS
Location Script Supervisor: BOB FOREST
Stunt Coordinator: GLENN RANDALL
Stunt Arranger: PETER DIAMOND
Casting: MARY SELWAY BUCKLEY
Location Casting: DAVE EMAN, BILL LYTLE
Assistant to Mr. Kazanjian: KATHLEEN HARTNEY ROSS
Assistant to Mr. Bloom: JOHN SYRJAMAKI
Assistant to Mr. Lucas: JANE BAY
Choreographer: GILLIAN GREGORY
Location Choreographer: WENDY ROGERS
Production Controller: ARTHUR CARROLL
Production Accountant: MARGARET MITCHELL
Production Accountant: COLIN HURREN
Assistant Accountants: SHEALA DANIELL, BARBARA HARLEY
Location Accountants: DIANE DANKWARDT, PINKI RAGAN
Transportation Coordinator: GENE SCHWARTZ
Transportation Captains: JOHN FEINBLATT, H. LEE NOBLITT
Studio Transportation Managers: VIC MINAY, MARK LA BONGE
Location Contact: LENNIE FIKE
Still Photographers: ALBERT CLARKE, RALPH NELSON, JR.
Unit Publicist: GORDON ARNELL
Assistant Publicist: JUNE BROOM
Research: DEBORAH FINE
PRODUCTION AND MECHANICAL EFFECTS UNIT
Special Effects Supervisor: ROY ARBOGAST
Special Effects Foreman: WILLIAM DAVID LEE
Special Effects Floor Controller: IAN WINGROVE
Senior Effects Technician: PETER DAWSON
Chief Electronics Technician: RON HONE
Wire Specialist: BOB HARMAN
Location Special Effects: KEVIN PIKE, MIKE WOOD
MINIATURE AND OPTICAL EFFECTS UNIT, INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC
Optical Photography Supervisor: BRUCE NICHOLSON
Effects Cameramen: DON DOW, MICHAEL J.
McALISTER, BILL NEIL, SCOTT FARRAR, SELWYN EDDY III, MICHAEL OWENS, ROBERT ELSWIT, RICK FICHTER, STEWART BARBEE, MARK GREDELL, DAVID HARDBURGER
Assistant Cameramen: PAT SWEENEY, KIM MARKS, ROBERT HILL, RAY GILBERTI, RANDY JOHNSON, PATRICK McARDLE, PETER DAULTON, BESSIE WILEY, MARYAN EVANS, TOBY HEINDEL, DAVID FINCHER, PETER ROMANO
Optical Printer Operators: JOHN ELLIS, DAVID BERRY, KENNETH SMITH, DONALD CLARK, MARK VARGO, JAMES LIM
Optical-Lineup: TOM ROSSETER, ED L. JONES, RALPH GORDON, PHILIP BARBERIO
Lab Technicians: TIM GEIDEMAN, DUNCAN MYERS, MICHAEL S. MOORE
Art Director—Visual Effects: JOE JOHNSTON
Production Illustrator: GEORGE JENSON
Stop-Motion Animator: TOM ST. AMAND
Matte Painting Supervisor: MICHAEL PANGRAZIO
Matte Painting Artists: CHRIS EVANS, FRANK ORDAZ
Matte Photography: NEIL KREPELA, CRAIG BARRON
Chief Model Makers: PAUL HUSTON, CHARLES BAILEY, MICHAEL GLENN FULMER, EASE OWYEUNG
Model Makers: WILLIAM GEORGE, MARC THORPE, SCOTT MARSHALL, SEAN CASEY, LARRY TAN, BARBARA GALLUCCI, JEFF MANN, IRA KEELER, BILL BECK, MIKE COCHRANE, BARBARA AFFONSO, BILL BUTTFIELD, MARGHI McMAHON, RANDY OTTENBERG
Model Shop Supervisors: LORNE PETERSON, STEVE GAWLEY
Animation Supervisor: JAMES KEEFER
Head Effects Animators: GARRY WALLER, KIMBERLY KNOWLTON
Effects Animators: TERRY WINDELL, RENEE HOLT, MIKE LESSA, SAM COMSTOCK, ROB LA DUCA, ANNICK THERRIEN, SUKI STERN, MARGOT PIPKIN
Supervising Visual Effects Editor: ARTHUR REPOLA
Visual Effects Editors: HOWARD STEIN, PETER AMUNDSON, BILL KIMBERLIN
Assistant Visual Effects Editors: ROBERT CHRISOULIS, MICHAEL GLEASON, JAY IGNASZEWSKI, JOE CLASS
General Manager, ILM: TOM SMITH
Production Supervisor: PATRICIA ROSE DUIGNAN
Production Coordinators: WARREN FRANKLIN, LAURIE VERMONT
Administrative Staff: CHRISSIE ENGLAND, LAURA KAYSEN, PAULA KARSH, KAREN AYERS, SONJA PAULSON, KAREN DUBE
Production Assistants: SUSAN FRITZ-MONAHAN, KATHY SHINE
Supervisor—Still Photography: TERRY CHOSTNER
Still Photographers: ROBERTO McGRATH, KERRY NORDQUIST
Electronic System Designers: JERRY JEFFRESS, KRIS BROWN
Electronic Engineers: MIKE MacKENZIE, MARTY BRENNEIS
Computer Graphics: WILLIAM REEVES, TOM DUFF
Equipment Engineering Supervisor: GENE WHITEMAN
Machinists: UDO PAMPEL, CONRAD BONDERSON
Apprentice Machinists: DAVID HANKS, CHRIS RAND
Design Engineer: MIKE BOLLES
Equipment Support Staff: WADE CHILDRESS, MICHAEL J. SMITH, CRISTI McCARTHY, ED TENNLER
Supervising Stage Technician: TED MOEHNKE
Stage Technicians: PATRICK FITZSIMMONS, BOB FINLEY, ED HIRSH, JOHN McLEOD, PETER STOLZ, DAVE CHILDERS, HAROLD COLE, MERLIN OHM, JOE FULMER, LANCE BRACKETT
Pyrotechnicians: THAINE MORRIS, DAVE PIER
Steadicam® Plate Photography: GARRETT BROWN
Ultra-High-Speed Photography: BRUCE HILL PRODUCTIONS
Color Timers: JIM SCHURMANN, BOB HAGANS
Negative Cutter: SUNRISE-FILM INC.
Additional Optical Effects: LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN FILMS, PACIFIC TITLE, MONACO FILM LABS, CALIFORNIA FILM, VISUAL CONCEPTS ENGINEERING, MOVIE MAGIC, VAN der VEER PHOTO EFFECTS
EWOKS
MARGO APOSTOCOS, RAY ARMSTRONG, EILEEN BAKER, MICHAEL H. BALHAM, BOBBIE BELL, PATTY BELL, ALAN BENNETT, SARAH BENNETT, PAMELA BETTS, DAN BLACKNER, LINDA BOWLEY, PETER BURROUGHS, DEBBIE CARRINGTON, MAUREEN CHARLTON, WILLIAM COPPEN, SADIE CORRIE, TONY COX, JOHN CUMMING, JEAN D’AGOSTINO, LUIS DE JESUS, DEBBIE DIXON, MARGARITA FERNANDEZ, PHIL FONDACARO, SAL FONDACARO, TONY FRIEL, DAN FRISHMAN, JOHN GAVAM, MICHAEL GILDEN, PAUL GRANT, LARS GREEN, LYDIA GREEN, PAM GREZ, ANDREW HERD, J. J. JACKSON, GLYNN JONES, RICHARD JONES, TREVOR JONES, KAREN LAY, JOHN LUMMISS, NANCY MacLEAN, PETER MANDELL, CAROLE MORRIS, STACY NICHOLS, CHRIS NUNN, BARBARA O’LAUGHLIN, BRIAN ORENSTEIN, HARRELL PARKER, JR., JOHN PEDRICK, APRIL PERKINS, RONNIE PHILLIPS, KATIE PURVIS, CAROL READ, NICHOLAS READ, DIANA REYNOLDS, DANIEL RODGERS, CHRIS ROMANO, DEAN SHACKENFORD, KIRAN SHAH, FELIX SILLA, LINDA SPRIGGS, GERALD STADDON, JOSEPHINE STADDON, KEVIN THOMPSON, KENDRA WALL, BRIAN WHEELER, BUTCH WILHELM
MIME ARTISTS
FRANKI ANDERSON, AILSA BERK, SEAN CRAWFORD, ANDY CUNNINGHAM, TIM DRY, GRAEME HATTRICK, PHIL HERBERT, GERALD HOME, PAUL SPRINGER
STUNT PERFORMERS
BOB ANDERSON, DIRK YOHAN BEER, MARC BOYLE, MIKE CASSIDY, TRACY EDDON, SANDRA GROSS, TED GROSSMAN, FRANK HENSON, LARRY HOLT, BILL HORRIGAN, ALF JOINT, JULIUS LEFLORE, COLIN SKEAPING, MALCOM WEAVER, PAUL WESTON, BOB YERKES, DAN ZORMEIER
Thanks to the US Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service Photographed in Buttercup Valley, Death Valley, and Smith River, California, and EMI-Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, England
Cameras and Lenses by Joe Dunton Cameras Ltd.
Aerial Camera Systems by Wesscam Camera Systems (Europe)
Lighting Equipment and Crew from Lee Electric Ltd.
Production Vehicles Courtesy of GMC Truck and Oldsmobile
Location, Service by Cinemobile
Air Transportation by PAN AM
Re-Recording at Sprocket Systems
Music Recording at Anvil–Abbey Road Studio
Special Visual Effects Produced at Industrial Light &
Magic, Marin County, CA
Color By Rank Film Laboratories® Prints by Deluxe®
Recorded in DOLBY®
A Lucasfilm Ltd. Production
A Twentieth Century–Fox Release
Music Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra
CAST
MARK HAMILL as Luke Skywalker
HARRISON FORD as Han Solo
CARRIE FISHER as Princess Leia
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS as Lando Calrissian
ANTHONY DANIELS as C-3PO
PETER MAYHEW as Chewbacca
SEBASTIAN SHAW as Anakin Skywalker
IAN McDIARMID as the Emperor
FRANK OZ performing Yoda
DAVID PROWSE as Darth Vader
JAMES EARL JONES as the Voice of Darth Vader
ALEC GUINNESS as Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi
SUPPORTING CAST
R2-D2: KENNY BAKER
Moff Jerjerrod: MICHAEL PENNINGTON
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