‘Light & Magic’ panel lights up Star Wars Celebration with stories about ILM’s early days
The Millennium Falcon owes part of its design to the dirty dishes in Joe Johnston’s sink. Johnston, who was one of Industrial Light & Magic’s first employees, was tasked with redesigning Han Solo’s ship after the original design was too familiar to the one in the contemporary show Space 1999, and Lucas tasked Johnston to come up with a new design fast.