Boba Fett designer, Star Wars idea artist, and visible results technician Joe Johnston has confirmed that one other season of the Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) documentary, dubbed Light and Magic, has wrapped up filming. We didn’t even know this was taking place.
On October 1 earlier this month, 32Ten Studios – which served as the house to the George Lucas Theater and the ILM Model and Practical Effects Shop, the place the visible results for the unique trilogy have been developed – closed up store for good, with a number of ILM alumni having a reunion to share a number of reminiscences earlier than to mark the tip of an period. Star Wars collector and documentarian Gus Lopez filmed a brief speech that Johnston made in regards to the creation of the Boba Fett armor.
During the dialogue, Johnston indicated that one other season of Light and Magic is on the horizon:
“One day, this picket crate arrived, and we opened it up and it was the Boba Fett – the white plastic Boba Fett swimsuit that Ralph [McQuarrie] and I had been engaged on designing, and George [Lucas] stated ‘We don’t have sufficient within the finances for 5000 tremendous troopers, so let’s take this man and switch him right into a bounty hunter.’ So I went to [Lucas’ assistant] Jane Bay, and I stated ‘I want a spot to ache this factor.’ and she or he handed me a set of keys, and she or he stated ‘George has simply leased a constructing in San Rafael, 3210 Kerner [Boulevard]; it’s empty, you may have any room you need.’, so I put the swimsuit on the bottom to color it.
The different day – Friday, really – we shot our final 32Ten interview for the Light and Magic Season 2 documentary on this very stage, proper there. So I really feel like I’m form of the bookends for the lifetime of ILM.”
You can watch the total speech under:
The preliminary six-episode season of Light and Magic was a linear narrative explaining the historical past of ILM, from the event of the primary two Star Wars movies to ILM’s rise as some of the prestigious visible results firms in all of Hollywood within the current day. How the method to the sequence will probably be adjusted for a second season stays to be seen, because the documentary sequence will more than likely have to deal with particular ideas as an alternative of merely protecting the corporate’s historical past in a chronological format.
Not to be missed, although, is the closure of 32Ten, a historic place for Lucasfilm productions and the movie enterprise on the whole. This was introduced in September by Scott Wickman on Facebook, who stated the owner wouldn’t be renewing the lease previous October 31. A crowdfunding effort to avoid wasting the constructing from being repurposed is being arrange.
All episodes of the primary season of Light and Magic can be found to stream on Disney Plus, with no phrase of when the second season will arrive. Special because of Reddit person CyborgNinja116 for recognizing this story.
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