Michael Pangrazio was known for his matte painting work on what movie that was the 2nd installment of the original Star Wars trilogy?
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Michael Pangrazio Michael Pangrazio (commonly credited as Mike Pangrazio) is an award-winning American art director in the feature film industry best known for his matte painting work on Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back. As traditional and digital matte artist, he created some of the most famous matte paintings in movie history. His best known painting is the Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse interior set-extension at the end of the movie.
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The Empire Strikes Back The Empire Strikes Back (also known as Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back) is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner. Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan wrote the screenplay, with George Lucas writing the film's story and serving as executive producer. The second installment in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, it was produced by Gary Kurtz for Lucasfilm and stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, and Frank Oz.
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Star Raiders II Star Raiders II is a video game released in 1986 for the Atari 8-bit family as a sequel to 1979's "Star Raiders", which was the killer app for the Atari computers. The game was originally developed as part of a tie-in with the movie "The Last Starfighter", which featured an arcade game of the same name as part of its plotline. Versions for the Atari 5200 and the Atari 8-bit computers were developed in 1984, although those were never released. Later the tie-in was dropped, and the game converted into a sequel to "Star Raiders" by changing a number of gameplay elements. The gameplay remained different from the original "Star Raiders".
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Empire of Dreams Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy is a 2004 documentary film directed by Kevin Burns and narrated by Robert Clotworthy. It documents the making of the original "Star Wars" trilogy: "Star Wars" (1977), "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980), and "Return of the Jedi" (1983) and their impact on popular culture.
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Dark Empire Dark Empire is a "Star Wars" comic book metaseries produced by Dark Horse Comics. It consists of a six-issue limited series written by Tom Veitch and drawn by Cam Kennedy ("Dark Empire I"), followed by a second six-issue limited series by Veitch and Kennedy ("Dark Empire II") and a two-issue limited series written by Veitch and drawn by Jim Baikie ("Empire's End"). "Dark Empire" in particular, is notable for being one of the very first Star Wars comics to be produced by Dark Horse Comics, who had acquired the comic rights to the Star Wars franchise in the early 1990s.
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Twice Upon a Time (1983 film) Twice Upon a Time is a 1983 American animated fantasy comedy film directed by John Korty and Charles Swenson. It is the first animated film produced by George Lucas. The movie uses a form of cutout animation which the filmmakers called "Lumage", involving prefabricated cut-out plastic pieces that the animators moved on a light table.
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Martin Sheen Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor who first became known for his roles in the films "The Subject Was Roses" (1968) and "Badlands" (1973), and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role in "Apocalypse Now" (1979).
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Star Tours Star Tours was a motion simulator attraction at several Disney theme parks, based on the successful "Star Wars" film series created by George Lucas. Set in the "Star Wars" universe, the attraction sent guests on a excursion trip to Endor, whilst being caught in an altercation between the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire. The attraction featured Captain "Rex" RX-24 along with series regulars R2-D2 and C-3PO.
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Ken Ralston Kenneth "Ken" Ralston (born 1954) is an American visual effects artist, currently the Visual Effect Supervisor and Creative Head at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Ralston began his career at the seminal commercial animation and visual effects company, Cascade Pictures in Hollywood, where he worked on over 150 advertising campaigns in the early 1970s. In 1976, he was hired at Industrial Light & Magic by Dennis Muren to help George Lucas create the effects for "Star Wars". He remained in ILM for 20 years before joining Sony Pictures Imageworks as president. Ralston is best known for his work in the films of Robert Zemeckis.
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Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1984 video game) Star Wars: Return of the Jedi is a 1984 arcade game by Atari, Inc. and the follow-up to 1983's "Star Wars" arcade game. The game uses raster graphics, rather than vector graphics which were used for the first and third Atari arcade games based on the "Star Wars" franchise. Home ports were released by Domark Software for the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and Amiga in 1988.
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Death Troopers Death Troopers is a "Star Wars" novel written by Joe Schreiber. Schreiber's idea was to create a horror story in the "Star Wars" universe that pulled from horror movies he enjoyed such as "The Shining" and "Alien". The novel is the first "Star Wars" horror story since the "Galaxy of Fear" series, released in the late 1990s. Released on October 13, 2009, Death Troopers is set just before the events shown in "A New Hope". It was heavily featured in the MMORPG "Star Wars Galaxies" with SOE confirming a full page of information and advertisements of the game in the book. On September 22, 2010, Ballantine Books revealed the cover of the prequel novel, also by Schreiber, called "Red Harvest".
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Star Wars Battle Pod Star Wars Battle Pod is a 2014 arcade game based on the franchise "Star Wars". It was unveiled at the New York Comic-Con on October 8, 2014. The game consists of multiple scenarios that correspond with one of the major battles in the original trilogy. There are five scenarios, the Battle of Yavin (Yavin) from "Star Wars" where the player is placed in an X-wing attacking the Death Star to prevent it from destroying Yavin 4, the Battle of Hoth (Hoth), from "The Empire Strikes Back", where one pilots a snowspeeder to assist in the evacuation of Hoth from invading Imperial forces, a speeder run through Endor (Endor) where one helps Han Solo make it to the shield generator to destroy the Death Star's shield for the rebels in space. and the Battle of Endor (Death Star II) from "Return of the Jedi", which places the player in the cockpit of the "Millennium Falcon" to try to destroy the Death Star II and end the war. There is one scenario that doesn't follow the storyline of the movies but sets its own path, (Vader's Revenge). This scenario takes place literally seconds after the destruction of the first Death Star where one plays as Darth Vader who is trying to prevent the rebels from escaping with a piece of the Death Star with the ability to eliminate Han Solo in the process. Another version of the game adds a scene from "The Force Awakens", where the player pilots a T-60 X-Wing to engage First Order ships on Takodana and protect General Leia's transport.
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Inglourious Basterds Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Til Schweiger, and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells the fictional alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's political leadership, one planned by Shosanna Dreyfus (Laurent), a young French Jewish cinema proprietor, and the other by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt). Christoph Waltz co-stars as Hans Landa, an SS colonel tracking down Raine's group and who has a connection to Shosanna's past. The film's title was inspired by Italian director Enzo G. Castellari's macaroni combat film, "The Inglorious Bastards" (1978).
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Kreia Kreia is a fictional character and party member in Obsidian Entertainment's "". She is a blind Force-sensitive who forms a "bond" with the player character, the Jedi Exile, through the Force. Kreia sets herself up as the Exile's mentor, and rejects the divide of the light and dark side of the Force, as well as the predestination the Force entails. By the game's end, it is revealed she is the Sith Lord Darth Traya and is planning on destroying the Force, and she becomes the final boss of "The Sith Lords". Kreia makes no more appearances in "Star Wars" fiction, though a miniature by Wizards of the Coast was released in August 2008.
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C-3PO C-3PO ( ) or See-Threepio is a humanoid robot character from the "Star Wars" franchise who appears in the original trilogy, the prequel trilogy and the sequel trilogy. Built by Anakin Skywalker, C-3PO was designed as a protocol droid intended to assist in etiquette, customs, and translation, boasting that he is "fluent in over six million forms of communication". Along with his astromech droid counterpart and friend R2-D2, C-3PO provides comic relief within the narrative structure of the films, and serves as a foil. Anthony Daniels has portrayed the character in all nine "Star Wars" cinematic films released to date, including "" and the animated ""; C-3PO and R2-D2 are the only characters to appear in every film.
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Mon Calamari cruiser Mon Calamari Star Cruisers are starships in the fictional "Star Wars" universe. These starships were first depicted in "Return of the Jedi" as part of the Rebel Alliance fleet that attacks the second Death Star. Industrial Light and Magic designed the vessels to visually contrast the Imperial Star Destroyers. Various Mon Calamari cruisers also appear in literature and video games of the "Star Wars" expanded universe. Replicas, toys and other depictions of the ships have been released by several merchandise companies.
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Star Wars: Rogue Squadron Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (known as Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D on the PC) is an arcade-style action game co-developed by Factor 5 and LucasArts. The first of three games in the , it was published by LucasArts and Nintendo and released for Microsoft Windows and Nintendo 64 in December 1998. "Rogue Squadron" was one of the first games to take advantage of the Nintendo 64's Expansion Pak, which allows gameplay at a higher display resolution.
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The Marine 3: Homefront The Marine 3: Homefront is a 2013 American action film starring The Miz and directed by Scott Wiper. The film was released on direct-to-DVD and Blu-ray in the United States on March 5, 2013. It is the third film in the film series and is a sequel to "The Marine" starring John Cena and "The Marine 2", starring Ted DiBiase, Jr.
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Star Wars Gangsta Rap The "Star Wars Gangsta Rap" is a parody song based on the original "Star Wars" trilogy. The song was later popularized as a Flash animated music video and was the first winner of the Audience Choice Award in the Lucasfilm-sponsored Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards.
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Star Wars Mini Movie Awards The "Star Wars" Mini Movie Awards a.k.a. "The Artoos" a.k.a. "Episode 3⁄ Inches" was a filmmaking competition held in the UK by Hasbro. The rules stated that filmmakers had to make an animation using "Star Wars" action figures of no more than five minutes. There were three awards - Best Creativity, Best Storyline and Best Use of Characters, and two age categories, Padawan (15 years and under) and Jedi (16 years and over). Two finalists were picked for each category by a judging panel consisting of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Cartoon Network, "Empire" magazine and "Rampage" magazine. All of the finalists were also put forward for the overall award of 'Best "Star Wars" Mini Movie'.
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Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire is a 1995 video game developed by LucasArts. It is the sequel of the LucasArts action game "", set in the "Star Wars" expanded universe.
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Dark Tide: Ruin Dark Tide: Ruin (also released as Dark Tide II: Ruin) is the second novel in a two-part story by Michael A. Stackpole. Published and released in 2000, it is the third installment of the "New Jedi Order" series set in the "Star Wars" galaxy.