when Lucasfilm would just sue people over and over and over and over.
And Lucasfilm was all effort towards those films and still not sure what they were going to do.
It took Lucasfilm a few years to get up to speed on monitoring all of it as well-- also in games and all the other stuff
It was somebody from Lucasfilm , because they were looking for a Commodore 64 programmer, which was what I had done at the previous company.
While the Lucasfilm name was very big, of course.
They hadn't bought Lucasfilm yet, but they had Marvel.
Caller ID had Lucasfilm on it.
The ideas are wending their way through Lucasfilm to make sure I'm not, again, stepping on something that I have no idea is even out there.
about that same time the Lucasfilm people were considering restarting their adult fiction line and looking around for a publisher.
So the gaming branch of Lucasfilm was very new.
And I was hired at Lucasfilm to be a programmer, to do Commodore 64 work.
And we were talking about the old Lucasfilm games like "Maniac Mansion" and "Loom" and "Monkey Island," and, you know, "Indiana Jones"-- all those games.
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He was the first Director of Computer Graphics at Lucasfilm and the first Graphics Fellow at Microsoft.
I basically did what it says not to do on the Lucasfilm website, which is don't send any unsolicited material.
And I could basically suggest what I wanted to do to Lucasfilm , and at that time, Bantam.
So at some point, Lucasfilm had to make the call to say, OK, this is the official one.
How did you-- how did you get the job at LucasArts-- Lucasfilm Games back then?
To me, Lucasfilm was Star Wars and Indiana Jones, and I had no idea they made games.
He was actually the only artist in the Lucasfilm Games group.
Like Europe, the Lucasfilm games were hugely popular and the Sierra games weren't quite as popular.
So we worked together for a long time at Lucasfilm , at Industrial Light & Magic in San Francisco.
LucasFilm own the books completely, which means Disney now own the books completely.
There was actually a lawsuit filed by Universal against Fox and Lucasfilm because of the imitation of "Silent Running."
Someone clearly tapped into the phone line and created this Lucasfilm avatar.
And at that time, Lucasfilm , far from decision-- I don't even think they'd done "Clone Wars" yet.
The two came together, Bantam and Lucasfilm made a deal, Bantam's editors were asked to find an author,
they made up a short list, Lucasfilm decided they liked my style best, and I had a November of '89 phone call from
There are rumors that Steven Spielberg took some interest in what you were doing at Lucasfilm games?
It's like, why did you leave Lucasfilm ?
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And we're working with many different companies who've brought it-- Pixar and LucasFilms and a lot of tech companies and all over.
The first reason was that with an expanded Disney, when they purchased it from Lucasfilm or from George and Lucasfilm in 2012, in April 2014, they announced, hey,
I think the popularity of Thrawn in "Rebels" and hopefully the popularity of the book will induce people at Lucasfilm to start
And I thought, wow, Lucasfilm !
And so it's like, wow, Lucasfilm !
But when I started, there were seven people in the Lucasfilm games group.
As opposed to-- Well, you know, the Lucasfilm games-- you know, the Sierra games were always a lot more popular in the US.
Well, it was used in modern video games for the first time in the '80s by a group out of Lucasfilm .
But anyway, somehow that card made its way down the ranks, and I ended up working with Lucasfilm on this new book.
In 1988, Lou Aronica, who was head of Bantam Spectra, contacted Lucasfilm , suggesting that since George wasn't doing
They were scrambling to, A, print more copies, and B, make more deals with Lucasfilm for more books.
We'll see if the market is interested, if Del Rey's interested, if Lucasfilm 's interested.
And so, I mean, to me, you know Lucasfilm was just this like amazing thing.
And, you know, I think it was-- in those early days of Lucasfilm , you know, games weren't really green-lit.
And in terms of Carla, the swordmaster in "Monkey Island," she's based on a person that worked in tech support at Lucasfilm , named Carla.
The "Seventh Tower" books were, in fact, commissioned by LucasFilm .
Obviously this not the upgraded version that we know from the Special Edition, but just a very simple, green on black, version of Lucasfilm Limited.
He thought it very funny, showed it at a board meeting, and invited us up to Lucasfilm to get a tour.