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auximenies
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ANH screening with modelmaker Lorne Peterson...WHY ARE THEY SCREENING THE SE??
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29-Nov-2006, 2:34 PM
I was just at Barnes & Noble and saw Lorne's book Sculpting a Galaxy: Inside the Star Wars Model Shop. Preface by George Lucas, Foreword by Rick McCallum. The preface was typical GL: "The models were great and Lorne was great, but then I realized that everything I wanted to do couldn't be done with miniatures. So I used computers." (paraphrased) Strange that would even be in there. Maybe it was a pre-requisite for Lorne to get GL's permission to do the book. At least Rick's foreward mentioned that during the prequels there were some things that were better done with models instead of CGI, but he said it was some guy named Brian at the model shop who was really helpful. Apparently Brian works with Lorne, or something like that. Again, not exactly the most appropriate stuff to appear as a foreword in this book.

So my take is that this American Cinematheque screening is more of an opportunity for Lorne to sell his book than to highlight the unfortunate fact that the great work of a lot of folks has been erased by the revision of the film.