Available via Amazon and Barnes and Noble comes this inside baseball look at the film industry. Inside the Star Wars Empire by former ILM visual effects editor Bill Kimberlin gives a unique look at the most magical era of Lucasfilm as the original trilogy was crafted and the powerhouses of ILM and Lucasfilm were built.
Kimberlin arrived during the making of Return of the Jedi, the time when ILM and LFL were looking beyond the Star Wars saga and ahead to pastures new as the visual effects industry blossomed.
A very funny and insightful memoir about making a career in film. . .
. . . including two decades at Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light and Magic, the special effects studio founded by George Lucas.
If there was an inner sanctum to big time motion picture making outside Hollywood, LucasFilm was the epicenter.
What was it like to work there as one of those names in that endless list of credits at the end of major motion pictures?
Why did the innovations there happen in Marin County, California, not New York or Los Angeles?
Wasn’t Hollywood the motion picture capital of the world?
How did George Lucas, a “D” student from Modesto, California become the biggest director and movie mogul of all time?
And since few of us will ever reach the heights of the famous filmmaker, how can one lead a creative life while still making a good living?
