Movielogr

The Beginning: Making 'Episode I' (2001)

Directed by Jon Shenk

Documentary

Overview

The entire process of making Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) is shown here in this documentary. From pre-production through post-production, we get to see visual effects meetings, John Williams’ music sessions, and even the storm that wiped out the pod-racers & props.

Length 66 minutes

Actors

George Lucas | Jake Lloyd | Steven Spielberg | Ewan McGregor | Ahmed Best | Rick McCallum | Pernilla August | Ray Park | Ian McDiarmid | Liam Neeson | John Fensom | Frank Oz | John Williams | Doug Chiang | Lewis Macleod

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
01/05/2018TVStreamingVideo on Demand8 stars
 

Viewing Notes

Having recently heard a lot about this making of documentary of the Phantom Menace, I figured I’d should watch it before revisiting the movie, which I picked up the blu from the library. Quite surreal to see these actors when they were auditioning. Also has me recalling Celebration III that we attended in 2005.

Watching Ewan accept the role then get introduced to George’s kids is wild… then he gets his beautiful long hair buzzed off! Natalie Portman at 16yo doing a table reading with the cast… wow. This is honestly better than the actual movie.

Comments

No comments yet. Log in and be the first!