FREE: STAR WARS TRILOGY BONUS MATERIAL

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The elements split into four different areas. We start with “Documentary and Featurettes”, the domain that includes the most significant pieces. It opens with the disc’s major attraction, a two-hour, 30-minute and 36-second program entitled Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy. This piece essentially splits into four areas to examine pre-Star Wars background and then each of the Trilogy’s films. The introduction/Star Wars segment lasts 86 minutes, while the Empire portion runs about 34 minutes. The final half an hour mainly looked at Jedi.

Throughout the program, we get a mix of movie clips, archival materials, behind the scenes shots, and interviews. In the latter category, we hear from series creator/producer George Lucas, Empire director Irvin Kershner, visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren, sound designer Ben Burtt, journalists Walter Cronkite and Bill Moyers, filmmakers Steven Spielberg, producers Gary Kurtz and Howard Kazanjian, USC professor and cultural historian Leo Braudy, former 20th Century Fox production executive Gareth Wigan, former Fox studio chief Alan Ladd Jr., conceptual artist Ralph McQuarrie, miniature and optical effects cameraman Richard Edlund, model makers Paul Huston, Lorne Peterson and Steve Gawley, visual effects supervisor John Dykstra, stunt coordinator Peter Diamond, art director/production designer Norman Reynolds, stop-motion animator Phil Tippett, composer John Williams, editors Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew, production supervisor Robert Watts, visual effects art director Joe Johnston, visual effects artist Ken Ralston, former Lucasfilm marketing director Sid Ganis, writer Lawrence Kasdan, makeup and special creature designer Stuart Freeborn, former Lucasfilm president Charles Weber, production supervisor Jim Bloom • “Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy” Documentary