"EVERY SAGA HAS A BEGINNING..."

Saturday 5 December 2020

AN 'EMPIRE' AT 40: A FALCON IN FLIGHT!

At ILM, Ken Ralston supervises a filming shift of one of the new Millennium Falcon models against blue screen.

"The fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy", she would be described as in The Empire Strikes Back, of which this first sequel truly showed the Millennium Falcon living up to Lando Calrissian's description of her, with many ambitious new flying chase sequences showcasing the vessel, and several new models being used and filmed alongside the large scale vehicle built for the original Star Wars in 1977, against the new motion control camera/system created for model filming at ILM by Richard Edlund.









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