Re: Kathleen Kennedy to step down from Lucasfilm?
Is it possible they decided to just use "The Art of" books instead. While they are not true "Making of" books, they do go chronologically and talk about some of the other things going on during pre-production, production, and post-production.
I've got all the art books from the very first " Art of Star Wars" printed in 1979, though sadly now the spine glue has all but perished, leaving the pages very loose and, despite my deep disappointment in "The Last Jedi" I've even bought a copy of the "Art of the TLI" , though only because it was at an absolutely knockdown, less than a third of the cover price.
Now whilst I'd admit there is alot more information in them (as regarding the making of the films) than used to be (at least more than just a script), thats mainly because theres a vast amount of work done for concept and previsualization by the art department,much than there ever used to be, so much so it actually directly influences the story, not the other way around. And therefore the quantity the art dep't produces is much larger than it originally used to be , because of that. So it warrants these excellent books.
But , if you've read any of the three brilliant "Making of " OT volumes by Rinzler , there is huge difference in the fantastic amount of detailed information and commentary covering ALL areas of movie production from the very start to finish. And some of it goes against alot of the established folklaw that people and SW fans still like to believe about the OT.
These have almost "Bible" status with me and I've read them more than once and quite thoroughly, which is ALSO why I don't comment here as much as I used to, because I've gotten tired of alot of the misquotes and mistakes that people put up here about SW.
But, in amswer to your question , there is already an "Art of Solo: A Star Wars Movie" out there and its pretty damn good, BUT it really doesn't cover any of the contentious issues that surrounded the movie, of which much has been said and discussed quite heatedly, but about which actually very little accurate information, other than some posts , quotes and a huge amount of rumour, exists.
Which is why I was surprised to find this was up for publishing in April 2019, just short of a year after release.
Some may draw the conclusion that if its being published then that perhaps this could mean KK won't be around by then to be embarassed when all the facts about this troubled production, if they are anything at all like the Rinzler books , are made public.
This film ,afterall, is being widely portrayed as a rare SW failure, though I quite liked it and will soon be buying the bluray.
Or, alternatively, it could entirely vindicate her decision to step in and refilm it, despite the excessive cost and explain exactly why the changes in directors and all the repercussions of that had to happen.
But its because of that I am surprised to see that this is even out there at all, given all the rubbish that has been said about it and the widely held belief that a lot of hardcore SW fans boycotted the movie. I'm very interested in the response to it and what it will actually say.
Now lets see how long it takes for this to hit the youtube channels.
Heres the Amazon link :
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Industrial...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=JVMDBE5VW37TJX06CZCE