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tar Wars Insider: These books are                                                                   McQUARRIE
                     absolutely exhaustive! Where
                     do you even start in putting                                                                         MASTERPIECES
             S together a project such as this?

             Brandon Alinger: The first step was

             assembling the team. [Former Lucasfilm                                                                       Insider asked the team
                                                                                                                         behind the books which
             executive editor] Jonathan Rinzler offered                                                                  b
             me the opportunity to author it after we                                                                     piece they would most
             published Star Wars Costumes: The                                                                            like to have displayed
             Original Trilogy in 2014. I knew it would                                                                       on their walls…
             be a mammoth undertaking and I knew
             David Mandel was a McQuarrie collector                                                                       David Mandel: At the
             and enthusiast, and David knows Wade,                                                                        moment, I cannot stop
             who shares the same passions. So the                                                                         looking at the original
             three of us assembled, without realizing                                                                      “Cantina” painting.
             exactly what we were getting into at that                                                                   I love the colors and all
             time. The exciting thing was that everyone                                                                    the creatures buried

             was committed to doing the definitive                                                                                 in it.
             book—to showing all the artwork. I think


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