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fucktoyprincess -> RE: New Star Wars films (11/18/2012 6:07:08 PM)
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Whether one likes or dislikes any of the first 6 films, it is undeniable that Lucas created a huge franchise the likes of which have never truly been seen before. The original movie came out in what, '77, and kids today are still watching the movies, and buying the merchandise. 35 years later? No other franchise has seen this kind of $$ around it. Not to mention that Lucas also built several hugely successful businesses from these films (Industrial Light and Magic and Skywalker Sound to name two). These companies provided both special effects and sound effects for a multitude of films in the past decades (films that had nothing to do with Star Wars). Lucas built an entire industry.
The money that was paid for LucasFilm was for the COMPANY which includes Industrial Light and Magic, Skywalker Sound, Lucasfilm Animation and LucasArts and, of course, includes the rights to make the next films. But the company as a whole is not just about Star Wars. Lucas is a genius. And the genius is not limited to the Star Wars films - a very small part of what this man has influenced.
From Wiki re Industrial Light and Magic (ILM):
From here on, ILM expanded and has since gone on to produce special effects for nearly three hundred films, including the entire Star Wars saga, the Indiana Jones series, the Harry Potter series, the Jurassic Park series, the Back to the Future trilogy, many of the Star Trek films, Ghostbusters II, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, the Terminator sequels, the Transformers films, the Men in Black series, most of the Mission: Impossible films, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, *batteries not included, The Abyss, and also provided work for Avatar, alongside Weta Digital.
In addition to their work for George Lucas, ILM also collaborates with Steven Spielberg on most films that he directs, and for many that he produces as well. Dennis Muren has acted as Visual Effects Supervisor on many of these films.
Apart from flashy special effects, the company also works on more subtle effects - such as widening streets, digitally adding more extras to a shot, and inserting the film's actors into preexisting footage - in films including Schindler's List, Forrest Gump, Snow Falling on Cedars, Magnolia, and several Woody Allen films.
ILM began creating computer-generated imagery when they hired Edwin Catmull from NYIT in 1979. John Lasseter worked for ILM in the early 1980s as a computer animator. The computer graphics (CG) division, now known as Pixar, was sold to Steve Jobs and created the first CG animated feature, Toy Story.
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