Started season two of Light and Magic and it’s sooooo gratifying to see the positivity for Rick McCallum. He earned a reputation for being a “1,000 pound gorilla” as one person puts it, and was absolutely ruthless about being economically-minded as the producer of the prequels.
McCallum was willing to be as strong-willed as needed when dealing with people and doing whatever was needed to keep the productions as cost-effective. He was the complete antithesis of Gary Kurtz — which is why some OT fans think so little of him.
I spent a good bit of time in my first Star Wars video documenting his strengths, but like, watch S2E1 and you’ll see footage of him being the strongest voice of reason in the room in footage of the SAME INTERVIEWS that Stoklasa and Jessie Gender and other folks use when calling him a “yes man!”
It’s sooooo satisfying to hear John Knoll and Doug Chiang recount that infamous storyboard meeting and corroborate my exact assessment of it, which flatly contradicts Mike Stoklasa’s interpetation, oh my god!
DENNIS MUREN AND JOHN KNOLL ARE BEING EDITED TO DO A RASHOMON OVER WHETHER OR NOT THEY TRICKED GEORGE INTO MAKING JAR JAR BINKS COMPLETELY CGI
An Akira Kurosawa film story structure about a George Lucas film?!