Industrial Light & Magic Presents: Making Solo: A Star Wars Story - Hardcover

Bredow, Rob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1419737538 ISBN 13: 9781419737534

Publisher: Abrams, 2019

Synopsis

Industrial Light & Magic Presents: Making Solo: A Star Wars Story is an eyewitness account of the film’s production from visual effects supervisor and coproducer Rob Bredow. The book gives readers an intimate glimpse into the journey that Solo took from pre-production, production, and post-production, fully documenting how this film came to the big screen.

Making Solo gives a chronological overview of how this multiple-Academy-Award-winning visual effects company created new worlds, aliens, droids, and vehicles for a galaxy far, far away, including insights into how the train heist on Vandor, L3-37, the Kessel Run, and the reimagined Millennium Falcon were brought to life. A must-have for Star Wars fans, this authorized, all-access book will be an indispensable work for all movie fans and devotees of popular culture.

About this title

About the Author

Rob Bredow is the SVP, executive creative director, and head of Industrial Light & Magic, responsible for the company’s overall creative strategy and global operations. He was the visual effects supervisor and coproducer on Solo: A Star Wars Story, where he served as a creative partner to the filmmakers throughout the entire production process. Bredow joined Lucasfilm in 2014 as vice president of New Media and head of Lucasfilm’s Advanced Development Group. Previously, he was CTO and visual effects supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks.
 
Ron Howard is the cofounder of Imagine Entertainment and a director, producer, and actor who has won two Academy Awards, four Emmys, a Grammy, and two Golden Globes. He additionally received the National Medal of Arts as well as two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In additional to Solo: A Star Wars Story, he has directed A Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code, Apollo 13, and other award-winning films.
 

From the Back Cover

An eyewitness account of the making of latest Star Wars film "Solo", from Visual Effects Supervisor and Co-Producer Rob Bredow. Includes a foreword from Ron Howard.

Edition details

• Publisher: Abrams
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1419737538
• ISBN 13: 9781419737534
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256