Lucasfilm creative art manager, author of @ABRAMSbooks’ The Art of Star Wars book series and @DelReyStarWars’ From A Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi
Shelter-in-place Day 40 deep closet finds: @ILMVFX 40th anniversary pin from 2015. Finally got (nearly) all of my vinyl out of mailers and into crates and saw the back wall of my closet for the first time in years. More buried treasures to come. #StarWars
Shelter-in-place Day 41 deep closet finds: #SoloAStarWarsStory@ILMVFX crew gear socks from 2018, the pattern on which is based on young Lando Calrissian’s shirt which is, in turn, based on the Ralph McQuarrie sketch below. Apologies if I’ve posted these before. #StarWars
Star Wars Mythbusters
Darth Vader is from the German (or Dutch) for “Dark Father” 1. “General Vader/Imperial Commander” appears on an early-1974 list of potential character names by George Lucas
(screenshots from @jwrinzler’s essential Making of #StarWars book series) 2. “Darth Vader, a tall, grim-looking general” appears in the May 1974 The #StarWars rough draft 3. Darth Vader is not Luke Skywalker’s father until the April 1, 1978 second draft of #EmpireStrikesBack 4. “Darth” doesn’t mean anything in Dutch or German
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