ILM’s Fan-Favorite Star Wars Making-of Series Is Now Streaming Season 2

The first play of Light & Magic turned a spotlight connected the creators and innovators of Industrial Light & Magic, better-known arsenic ILM and best-known arsenic the institution founded successful 1975 to make peculiar effects for the archetypal Star Wars movie. In the decades since, ILM has enactment its stamp connected indispensable movies not conscionable from George Lucas, but Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, and beyond, racking up Oscars and thrilling audiences.

The doc series, directed by Lawrence Kasdan (co-writer of Star Wars entries The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Force Awakens, and Solo: A Star Wars Story; helium besides wrote Indiana Jones’ debut adventure, Raiders of the Lost Ark), streamed its archetypal play successful 2022 to captious acclaim.

Episodes focused connected the instauration of ILM (in an introduction appropriately titled “Gang of Outsiders”) arsenic good arsenic the contention to implicit enactment connected Star Wars, the daunting task of moving connected Star Wars‘ sequel aft its smash success, its enactment connected ’80s blockbusters, its displacement to integer technology, and yet its triumphant achievements onJurassic Park.

That leaves plentifulness of taxable substance for play two, and astatine the Light & Magic sheet astatine Star Wars Celebration, fans learned much astir what’s successful store erstwhile play 2 arrives connected Disney+ today—with a trailer for everyone to respect earlier streaming the amusement itself.

Light & Magic play 2 continues the chronological past of the company, picking up with Star Wars‘ instrumentality to the large surface with The Phantom Menace. It runs 3 episodes and is present streaming connected Disney+.

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