Synopsis
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy (2004) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Edith Becker and Kevin Burns, it gathers George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher to tell the story behind one of cinema's most unlikely blockbusters.
Eight drafts of the script. Crews battling sand in Tunisia. Animatronics that refused to cooperate. Nearly every major studio passed. Lucas mortgaged everything to found Industrial Light & Magic from scratch because no existing company could deliver what the film required. The production came close to collapse before a single reel hit a theater.
Released alongside the 2004 DVD box set, this 151-minute film remains the clearest account of how a struggling filmmaker permanently changed blockbuster cinema — and why it nearly never happened. Stream Empire of Dreams on iFILM.
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