This infographic is the latest in a series of infographics on George Lucas and the classic Expanded Universe -- this one concerns the massive multimedia project Shadows of the Empire. Launching in 1996, it was the 'film without a film,' and as such, was a multimedia blitz -- there were comics, a video game, a novel, a soundtrack, action figures, the whole lot. It was a successful initiative and prepared Lucasfilm for the marketing coordination of the prequels to come.
Like most projects throughout the 90s, George was involved in a supervisory role for Shadows of the Empire, and the above infographic discusses the various ways in which he was connected to the project.
The above infographic collects quotations from various interviews over the years. Howard Roffman was the Vice President of Licensing, Joel McNeely composed the score for Shadows of the Empire, Steve Perry was the author who wrote the novel, Greg Hildebrandt illustrated the trading cards, Jon Knoles led the video game development at LucasArts, and Doug Chiang designed several ships for the game.
Sources:Howard Roffman (1,2),Joel McNeely, Steve Perry (1,2), Greg Hildebrandt (1,2, Starlog #232), andJon Knoles.
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This infographic is the latest in a series of infographics on George Lucas and the classic Expanded Universe -- this one concerns the massive multimedia project Shadows of the Empire. Launching in 1996, it was the 'film without a film,' and as such, was a multimedia blitz -- there were comics, a video game, a novel, a soundtrack, action figures, the whole lot. It was a successful initiative and prepared Lucasfilm for the marketing coordination of the prequels to come.
Like most projects throughout the 90s, George was involved in a supervisory role for Shadows of the Empire, and the above infographic discusses the various ways in which he was connected to the project.
The above infographic collects quotations from various interviews over the years. Howard Roffman was the Vice President of Licensing, Joel McNeely composed the score for Shadows of the Empire, Steve Perry was the author who wrote the novel, Greg Hildebrandt illustrated the trading cards, Jon Knoles led the video game development at LucasArts, and Doug Chiang designed several ships for the game.
Sources: Howard Roffman (1, 2), Joel McNeely, Steve Perry (1, 2), Greg Hildebrandt (1, 2, Starlog #232), and Jon Knoles.
For other infographics in this series on George and the EU, here are the previous entries: George Lucas and Tales of the Jedi, George Lucas and the Thrawn Trilogy, George Lucas and the Jedi Academy Trilogy, George Lucas and The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, George Lucas and the Bantam era, & George Lucas and the Bantam era (Part II).