Presented with a low budget forced the Londoner to more or less create something from nothing. In Roger Christian's case, he used scrap airplane metal.īack then, the hired set decorator was tasked with helping a young George Lucas on Star Wars: A New Hope, creating prop prototypes and decorating sets in a way that hadn't ever been achieved before in science-fiction films. You had to use unconventional methods and items to achieve the desired look. Back in the 1970s, you didn't just get the interior of the Millennium Falcon spaceship made.
One of the most memorable elements of the original Star Wars in 1977 wasn't the story, or characters, or even the soundtrack.
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