Industrial Light & Magic Presents: Making Solo: A Star Wars Story is an eyewitness account of the film's production from visual effects supervisor and coproducer Rob Bredow. The book gives readers an intimate glimpse into the journey that Solo took from pre-production, production, and post-production, fully documenting how this film came to the big screen. Making Solo gives a chronological overview of how this multiple-Academy-Award-winning visual effects company created new worlds, aliens, droids, and vehicles for a galaxy far, far away, including insights into how the train heist on Vandor, L3-37, the Kessel Run, and the reimagined Millennium Falcon were brought to life. A must-have for Star Wars fans, this authorized, all-access book will be an indispensable work for all movie fans and devotees of popular culture.

About the Author
Rob Bredow is the SVP, executive creative director, and head of Industrial Light & Magic, responsible for the company's overall creative strategy and global operations. He was the visual effects supervisor and coproducer on Solo: A Star Wars Story, where he served as a creative partner to the filmmakers throughout the entire production process. Bredow joined Lucasfilm in 2014 as vice president of New Media and head of Lucasfilm's Advanced Development Group. Previously, he was CTO and visual effects supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Ron Howard is the cofounder of Imagine Entertainment and a director, producer, and actor who has won two Academy Awards, four Emmys, a Grammy, and two Golden Globes. He additionally received the National Medal of Arts as well as two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In additional to Solo: A Star Wars Story, he has directed A Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code, Apollo 13, and other award-winning films.

Reviews
"An inside look at how the iconic visual effects company created new planets, creatures, and starships for last year's film." -- Entertainment Weekly online
"a lavish photo album of the production, from location scouting in The Dolomites (backdrop to the train-heist sequence) through to puppet-master Phil Tippett digging out Episode IV's original armatures for another round of holo-chess. The relatively sparse text is generally upbeat in tone . . . a handsome volume - many pics are monochrome, upping the classiness." -- Total Film
"For the nerd who loves to kick back and peruse pretty Star Wars centric pictures at leisure, this would make the perfect present" -- Cultured Vultures
"It's brimming over with an infectious love of filmmaking, and there are some revealing details about the nitty gritty of how blockbusters come together." -- SFX



Book Information
ISBN 9781419737534
Author Rob Bredow
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Abrams
Publisher Abrams