'Light & Magic' Will Tell The History Of Industrial Light & Magic Through A Six-Part Docuseries
In November of 2011, Abrams & Chronicle Books released Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation, a fascinating coffee-table sized chronology of the history and the achievements of ILM, accompanied by countless photos and illustrations.
For those, who are not willing to pay the roughly $100 for the book in mint condition, but still want to get an inside look into the past and present of the first and probably most famous special-effects house in the world, there will soon be an alternative:
Light & Magic, an original six episodes docuseries, is to be streamed exclusively on Disney+.
The series, which is directed by Lawrence Kasdan (writer of The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and Raiders of the Lost Ark) and produced among others by Ron Howard and Kathleen Kennedy will take a deep dive back into the earliest days of ILM in the mid-70s when George Lucas recruited a diverse team of people who were tasked with bringing the script for Star Wars to life and to accomplish things that had never been done before and seemed impossible at the beginning.
To ramp up the hype, Lucasfilm released a trailer for the documentary:
Starting with the trench run on the first Death Star, the invention of optical printing and the Dykstraflex, to stop-motion animated AT-ATs, the creation of the revolutionary morphing technology for The Abyss and Terminator 2, live-action dinosaurs for Jurrasic Park, Bob Hoskins interacting with a cartoon rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the Avengers saving New York from an alien invasion, up until today’s the Volume, that was used to create the current Star Wars TV-shows.
The show will include interviews with people, who have been there from day one, like George Lucas himself, Dennis Murren, Joe Johnston, Robert Edlund or Phil Tippet, but also other directors, who have employed the services of ILM for their own movies like James Cameron, Steven Spielberg or Ron Howard.
All six episodes of Light & Magic will be available on Disney+ on July 27.
Source: StarWars.com