Curated playlist
Lucasfilm people
- George LucasGeorge Lucas turned down a higher directing fee for Star Wars. He asked for toy and merchandise rights instead.
- Kathleen Kennedy (producer)Assistant Kathleen Kennedy was supposed to take notes but set her pencil down to pitch ideas.
- John LasseterDisney fired John Lasseter in 1984 after he pitched a film blending hand-drawn art with computer backgrounds.
- Michelle RejwanAn assistant to J.J. Abrams became a Lucasfilm executive. Michelle Rejwan got a Senior Vice President title in 2019.
- Howard KazanjianHoward Kazanjian proposed filming Return of the Jedi as a fake horror movie called Blue Harvest.
- Jonathan HalesJonathan Hales finished the Attack of the Clones script less than a week before filming began.
- Dave FiloniDave Filoni thought George Lucas's job offer was a prank. He later became president of Lucasfilm.
- Gary KurtzStar Wars producer Gary Kurtz filmed combat in Vietnam as a Quaker who refused to carry a sidearm.
- Tim SchaferTim Schafer landed his first game job by mailing a comic strip. It showed him getting hired at Lucasfilm Games.
- John KortyJohn Korty turned a barn in Marin County into a film studio. Lucas and Coppola visited, inspired to build their own.
- Rick McCallumNear the end of The Phantom Menace, Palpatine arrives on Naboo, and in that scene the film's producer, Rick McCallum, makes a brief cameo. It is a small in-joke, but it hints at a larger oddity. Richard McCallum was born on the 22nd of…
- Ben BurttDarth Vader's heavy breathing was sound designer Ben Burtt's own breath, recorded through an old scuba regulator.
- Lawrence KasdanLawrence Kasdan's script The Bodyguard was rejected 67 times. It later made more than $411 million worldwide.