8/29/2023 0 Comments John knoll star wars![]() ![]() ![]() I thought, “All right, well, okay, I did it. I didn’t hear anything for a little while. At the end - they listened to the whole thing very politely, and at the end, Kathy said, “All right, well, thank you.” So I got up and left. ![]() So I made the appointment, and I did the pitch to Kathy and Kiri Hart, who's head of story. If it doesn’t go any further than that, at least I’ll have done it.” Make an appointment and go pitch it, because you have to.” I realized as soon as he said that that if I don’t, I’m always going to wonder what would have happened if I did? So I thought, “What the hell, I’ll make the appointment, I’ll see if I can do the pitch. Could I work this out into a full feature film? Finally, I had this 20-minute version that I could tell that had, I thought, pretty good story logic, and pretty good characters, and all was very exciting, just beautifully meets right up to “Episode IV.”Ī friend of mine said, “Okay, you really have to pitch this to Kathy. I had been going through this mental exercise of kind of thinking through more of the plot mechanics, and who these characters were. Another friend asked me about it, so I pitched it, but this time it was a little more elaborate version of it. I said, imagine this, and kind of took him through the story. I sort of did an informal pitch to a friend of mine at lunch, once. “That sounds like fun.” I thought that idea of the mission to steal the Death Star plans, telling that story could make a pretty good standalone feature as well. It wasn’t until Kathy announced this new slate of “Star Wars” films that, in addition to “VII,” “VIII” and “IX” that would be continuing the saga, that she also wanted to do these standalone adventure stories: stories that took place in the “Star Wars” universe but weren’t necessarily connected to that through-line. As soon as he started going into that, I realized, actually, that idea has no place in that show, so I just dropped it completely. He started telling me about the era that it takes place in, and the themes of the show. Then a day or two later, I asked Rick, I heard you were developing this TV show. That could be a lot of fun!” I started tinkering with this idea internally. One thought was, “What about a ‘Mission Impossible’-style break-in into the most secure facility in the Empire to steal the Death Star plans? There could be a lot of tension of potentially being discovered and overcoming security measures. That was kind of intriguing, and I started thinking about, “What would be a fun thing to do as a one-hour episode as a live action ‘Star Wars’ TV show?” I had heard that Lucasfilm was developing stories for a potential live action TV series, and they were active in story development at the time. ![]() The first inklings of trying to tell that story happened in Summer 2003 when we were shooting on “Episode III” in Sydney. John Knoll: It’s longer than you might think - it was nine years. So when a possible plot for a new series of standalone films set in the rich universe kept percolating in Knoll’s head, he found himself suddenly driven lending his creative vision to the beginning, middle and end of a “Star Wars” story, as he related to CBR during a visit to ILM’s San Francisco headquarters to promote the Blu-ray release of “Rogue One.”ĬBR: When did the very first glimmers of the idea for the story for “Rogue One” start formulating in your brain, and how quickly did it go from daydream concept to a full-fledged notion to you crossing over from your FX work and saying “I’m a storyteller, and have to get the story told somehow.” But George Lucas’ galaxy far, far away has always held a special place in his heart, ever since his youth. ![]()
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