Rick McCallum
Rick McCallum
Richard "Rick" McCallumis a German-born American film producer. He is mostly known for his work on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as well as the Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition and prequel trilogy. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with American producer George Lucas, though he was also a long-time producer for British television playwright Dennis Potter...
ProfessionFilm Producer
Date of Birth22 August 1954
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He envisions somewhere like 100 hours between Episode III and Episode IV with a lot of characters that we haven't met but have been developed in other novels and other things. So we're really excited about that because I think finally we can have the opportunity to answer everybody's questions once and for all by the time we finish the series.
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Most people who love movies and kind of understand the process realize that if you do a character like Gollum or Jar Jar or any major digital character, that costs twice as much as having Tom Cruise in a movie.
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When you make a lot of movies, some of them don't work. So when something does work and people are genuinely moved and you have 150 million people worldwide seeing a movie, believe me, it feels good and you want to snatch those victories from the air and hold onto them as long as you can, ... It just doesn't happen very often in the film business no matter whose career it is.
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On a massive, huge film like 'Titanic' you might have 450 (or) 500 shots. This has just over 2,000. So virtually, it's a total-digital movie.
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Most people just want to see the movie, ... But for us, as with The Lord of the Rings, the freaks and geeks are fascinated by the creative process, and we try to demystify it for them.
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I'm amazed nobody's had a problem with that whatsoever, ... They can all identify with that. It's like your mother having cancer or your sister being hit by a car -- there are so many things subliminally in people's lives that make them relate to him, but it was a very tough concept on paper to get through.
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That's such s---, I promise you, ... I know there's one line -- 'You're either with me or you're against me' -- that echoes something. But that was actually in the script way before it even became a nightmare that it was possible that Bush could become president. That line has been echoed since the beginning of time.
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We know we want it to be darker, edgier and have fun sense of humor, but it will be more character--based,
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I love that scene. But at least it's on the DVD.
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Hopefully if we can make it work and everybody's excited and watches it, we will keep on going.
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Hopefully he'll do it by the end of this month and hopefully Steven and Harrison will be happy and then they're going to go off and make it,
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There is a common misconception about Star Wars that we shoot everything on blue screen. We actually built 72 really large sets on the film but, because there are so many different planets, there is always some part of the sequence that has blue screen in it.
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We thought about it, ... One of our assistant editors did the dialogue that George wrote for him. It was one line. It was never during shooting, but in post-production. He did a little Liam sound-alike but it just didn't work, (the scene) was more powerful without it. There was so much buzz about it on the Internet that Liam actually called me to find out if there was any truth to it. I said, 'No, we're going to do it without you this time.' You could feel that there was a presence of him there.
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We shot so fast, so relentlessly, that I don't think we had any funny moments where people flubbed lines or stunts went wrong, ... We do 50 (scene) setups a day. That focuses people in a different way.