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Lucasfilm people
- George LucasGeorge Lucas was nearly killed before he ever made a film. On the 12th of June 1962, a few days before his high school graduation in Modesto, California…
- Kathleen Kennedy (producer)Kathleen Kennedy was supposed to be taking notes. In 1979, she was an assistant on the Spielberg production 1941. According to Spielberg, speaking in 2015…
- John LasseterJohn Lasseter was fired from the Walt Disney Company for believing too hard in the future. The year was 1984, the project was a test film blending…
- Michelle RejwanMichelle Rejwan produced Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in 2019, sharing that credit with Kathleen Kennedy and J.J. Abrams.
- Howard KazanjianHoward Kazanjian is nowhere in the credits of The Empire Strikes Back. He took over that production partway through, after original producer Gary Kurtz…
- Jonathan HalesJonathan Hales was born on the 10th of May 1937, and the production memo that best captures his career came from a producer named Rick McCallum.
- Dave FiloniDave Filoni thought he was being pranked. When a job offer arrived from George Lucas himself, Filoni assumed his colleagues at Nickelodeon were pulling a…
- Gary KurtzGary Kurtz walked onto the set of a low-budget Western in 1965 with no idea he would one day help shape two of the most profitable films ever made.
- Tim SchaferTim Schafer was born on the 26th of July, 1967, in Sonoma, California, the youngest of five children. His path to becoming one of gaming's most celebrated…
- John KortyJohn Korty is a name that rarely surfaces in lists of great American directors, yet Leonard Maltin described him as "a principled filmmaker who has worked…
- Rick McCallumRichard McCallum arrived in England during the 1980s after a commercial failure in his native United States. The film Pennies from Heaven had closed its…
- Ben BurttBen Burtt grew up in Jamesville, New York, and by the time he was a child he was already making films. His father taught chemistry at Syracuse University;…
- Lawrence KasdanLawrence Kasdan was late for a movie in 1963, and that lateness changed everything. His brother, Mark, took him to see David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, and…