Counting down the 79 days until The Force Awakens on December 18, 2015.
In the days leading up to Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, And There Came A Day will present links, images, videos, art, memories, laughs, theories and thoughts leading up to the big day… which happens to be on my birthday! ENJOY and may the Force be with you, always… or at least until 12.18.15!
DAVID FINCHER WORKED ON RETURN OF THE JEDI
There have been a lot of innovations throughout the years that the Star Wars films have brought about, and not all of those Hollywood innovations were technical.
Great films have a way of inspiring great minds, but it’s rare for great minds to work on great films before they hit it big. That was the case with Oscar-nominated director David Fincher. The director was hired as a teenager to work with George Lucas’ special effects team Industrial Lights and Magic, and as a result worked on Return of the Jedi in 1983.
Fincher wouldn’t hit it big in Hollywood for another decade, when he was handed Alien 3 before going on to make classics like Seven, Fight Club, The Social Network and most recently Gone Girl.
A bonus fact is that as part of the Industrial Lights and Magic team in the early 80s, a young Fincher also worked special effects on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom — ironically the darkest of the Indiana Jones films.
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