Star Wars: Why A New Hope’s Spaceship FX Were So Groundbreaking
Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark writer Lawrence Kasdan recently discussed whyStar Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope's spaceship special effects were so groundbreaking. Star Wars premiered in 1977 and quickly became an international sensation and a cultural phenomenon. Making $775 million ($2.06 billion inflation-adjusted) at the box office,Star Wars is ranked fourth as the highest-grossing film of all time behind Gone With the Wind, Avatar, and Titanic.
The science-fiction fantasy adventure blew audiences away with its striking special effects set against a classic hero's journey to truly create an otherworldly experience. Famed motion picture visual effects studio Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), founded by Star Wars writer-director George Lucas, was created to craft effects never before seen in a film up to that point. ILM went on to win the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 50th Academy Awards ceremony, one of six Oscars won by the film.
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Kasdan recently sat down with EW to discuss his latest directorial project, Light & Magic, the six-part Disney+ documentary series about ILM's history and cinematic impact. When asked about what effect from a Star Wars film was the director's favorite, he revealed that it was the revolutionary spaceship effects from the first film of the franchise. Kasdan found them «dynamic» and «energetic» which is something that he had never seen in a film up to that point. Read what Kasdan said below.
«There are millions, but I have to go back to A New Hope, because that was what blew my mind and everybody in the theater around me in 1977. And so many of these people that worked at ILM subsequently, they were seeing
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