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JOURNEY TO THE LAST JEDI
MAGICAL REALISM
Intrinsic to any Star Wars film is the contribution of
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), and The Last Jedi is no
different. The team at ILM brought to bear the full might
of their artistry and skills—in concert with the practical
creatures and special effects—in order to help realize
director Rian Johnson’s vision.
For ILM visual effects supervisor Ben Morris, Star
Wars is an indelible part of not just film history, but the
wider popular culture, stretching from the 20th into the
21st century. As a consequence, the audience has a firm
idea of what Star Wars is, so it was important for Morris
to give that audience something they hadn’t seen before,
and yet still reference, as he puts it, the “visual languages
and aesthetics and choreography and action that people
respond to as being from the world of Star Wars.” That
process involved ILM “designing those ideas very early on
in production so they can inform how we shoot with the real
actors and the real sets.”
Shot on anamorphic 35mm film, Arri Alexa and IMAX,
The Last Jedi utilized real-world locations and practical
sets whenever possible, lending the production a veracity
that was difficult for ILM to replicate. But the team rose
to the challenge, the authentic nature of the footage
giving them a tangible realism on which to build the more
than 2000 visual effects shots they created, whether
it be digital set extensions or entirely digital locales.
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