They created ‘Star Wars,’ but they lived like characters from ‘Caddyshack.’ Industrial Light & Magic “was like a fraternity house,” George Lucas says in a new docuseries about the historic visual effects company.
brought them together in the mid-’70s. As the film’s deadline loomed, they had developed clever new techniques without getting a lot of the actual work completed. “ILM would always say yes,” Kasdan says. “They never said, ‘We can’t do that. We can’t help you.’ They always said, ‘Yeah, that’s exciting! We’ll come up with something new for that.’ And they didn’t go to a toolbox that was already made. They’d say, ‘Well, we’ll take some of what we did here and create something new.
What they lacked was discipline. And as things fell behind, Lucas went to war with Dykstra, repeatedly clashing over what was going wrong or wasn’t happening at all. “I knew he was unhappy,” Dykstra says in“First of all, it was very lucky that they found each other,” Kasdan says of the pair. “That was great good fortune, and it certainly set the course of ILM for 50 years. But when they were actually dealing with each other onthat was a time of enormous stress for both of them.
“He didn’t have the money. He didn’t have the time. And he had picked a guy who was brilliant to run the thing, but Dykstra was not brilliant at organizing with him,” Kasdan continues. “He was brilliant at recruiting the right people. And encouraging and inspiring those people. They all looked up to him, but he did not have a method, a system to get the work done.
“When I arrived for my interview…. I don’t want to use the word ‘shitty-looking place,’” she says in the doc. “It just looked like a dump.” The ratty couches arranged in a makeshift screening room; the equipment scattered everywhere; the hippieish team of employees who too often seemed adrift—her job was to straighten it all out.She had to do that without crushing the spirit of play that made the company so revolutionary in the first place.
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