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100% Tomatometer 14 Reviews 92% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan takes viewers on an adventure behind the curtains of Industrial Light ...
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- A then and now of George Lucas’ famed Industrial Light & Magic.
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By Tara Bennett
Updated: Jul 27, 2022 2:50 pm
Posted: Jul 27, 2022 2:00 pm
Light & Magic premieres on Disney+ on July 27, 2022.
If you grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s and loved movies, that was a magical time for film magazines. Starlog, Cinefantastique, Fangoria, and Cinefex, just to name a few, specialized in revealing the below-the-line creative people who brought the spectacle to life. And for those interested in the making of the movies, like me, they were a virtual master class in technique and innovation. Writer/director Lawrence Kasdan was smack in the middle of that creative whirlwind, working with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg as a screenwriter on the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises. And it’s his ground level perspective that provides the necessary insider’s point of view in telling how Lucas’ special effects company, Industrial Light & Magic, came to be in the new six-part Disney+ docuseries, Light & Magic. Like those magazines of old, the series goes deep, especially with the original Star Wars trilogy, in regards to how ILM became synonymous with creating modern special effects and visual effects. As a series, it works best when it focuses on the incredible talent who launched the company and have since become legends in their field. Where it stumbles is in its pacing, frontloading episodes with a micro focus on Star Wars and then in the later episodes, rushing through 30 years of VFX innovation to end on what feels like a very sanitized, underwhelming corporate sizzle reel.
The first episode, “Gang of Outsiders,” starts with archival footage of Lucas explaining why he had to start a visual effects company for Star Wars: there weren't any existing shops that could handle the depth and breadth of shots that he envisioned. John Dykstra was recommended by special effects legend Douglas Trumbull (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) to supervise the start of Industrial Light & Magic. Lucasfilm producer Gary Kurtz and Dykstra set out to headhunt the best talent they could find. They collected a group of young artists and tech geeks with varied backgrounds, including now legends Richard Edlund, Joe Johnston, Phil Tippett, and Dennis Muren. Within a hot warehouse in Van Nuys, Calif., they were given a $1 million budget to literally invent new hardware and techniques to bring Lucas’ vision of Star Wars to life. Documented with a wealth of incredible archival film from those days and interspersed with talking-head interviews with the players today, Kasdan captures a palpable sense of history and perspective with everyone looking back at essentially their younger selves enthusiastically throwing themselves into the job. And there’s also the necessary guideposts of understanding exactly what wasn’t possible at the time, and how the people in the trenches of ILM bypassed existing roadblocks to use every technique at their disposal to solve the problems.
Star Wars
Jurassic Park
T2: Judgment Day
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Avengers: Endgame
Mission: Impossible
Light & Magic starts strong with a very compelling account of how George Lucas built Industrial Light & Magic from scratch on the backs of some incredible talent who have through their work changed cinema forever. It works best when it documents those early days and challenges in the words of the participants then and now, which gives the series a ...
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Jul 27, 2022 · ‘Light & Magic’ Review: Disney+’s ILM Docuseries Is an Insightful Ride, But Hints There’s More to the Story. The six-episode documentary series chronicles the origins and evolution of George...
Jul 27, 2022 · Review by Brian Lowry, CNN. 3 minute read. Published 9:18 AM EDT, Wed July 27, 2022. Link Copied! Special effects artists hoist a Millennium Falcon model while making "Star Wars" in "Light &...
Jul 27, 2022 · 4. Summary. Take an enchanting journey through the development of special effects throughout the years. Disney+ docuseries Light & Magic Season 1 was released on the streaming service on July 27, 2022.
Jul 27, 2022 · Review scoring. good. Filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan does a deep docu-dive on the formation and early years of George Lucas’ visual effects house, Industrial Light & Magic, that starts strong but...
