The Making of Star Wars (Enhanced Edition)

by J.W. Rinzler

Predictions: “Star Wars could be a type of Davy Crockett phenomenon. I don’t know whether I’ve done it. I don’t know … But I know I’ve got a better one in me, one that is more refined. Gene Roddenberry wrote about his Star Trek series, and pointed out that it wasn’t really until about the tenth or fifteenth episode that they finally got things pulled together. You have to walk around the world you’ve created a little bit before you can begin to know what to do in it. “Someday I’ll do another movie like this, maybe, which will be much closer to my original plan. I didn’t get the illusion that I’d seen in my mind. I got something else, which is all right, but wasn’t what I started out with. Whenever you make a movie, a force takes over and directs the movie, and there’s nothing you can do about it. It takes on its own shape. It’s chemistry, the chemical reaction between people; the wind and the weather, and everything. All that has its own influence; it all has a life of its own. “The film’s only hope is that it is Jaws and not Godzilla versus the Gila Monster.”