{"id":244,"date":"2015-06-14T11:59:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T11:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2016-09-18T19:10:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T19:10:22","slug":"the-man-who-literally-built-star-wars-set-decorator-roger-christian-tells-us-what-it-was-like-making-george-lucass-dreams-out-of-scrap-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/the-man-who-literally-built-star-wars-set-decorator-roger-christian-tells-us-what-it-was-like-making-george-lucass-dreams-out-of-scrap-metal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Literally Built &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; &#8211; Set decorator Roger Christian tells us what it was like making George Lucas&#8217;s dreams out of  scrap metal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/movies\/a28570\/star-wars-roger-christian\/\">RC: I told George gingerly one day, &#8220;I cannot afford to dress these sets, I can&#8217;t get anything made in the studio,&#8221; but my idea was to make it like a submarine interior. And if I bought airplane scrap and broke it down, I could stick it in the sets in specific ways \u2014 because there&#8217;s an order to doing it, it&#8217;s not just random. And that&#8217;s the art of it. I understood how to do that \u2014 engineering and all that stuff. So George said, &#8220;Yes, go do it.&#8221; And airplane scrap at that time, nobody wanted it. There were junkyards full of it, because they sold it by weight. I could buy almost an entire plane for 50 pounds&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">RC: I told George gingerly one day, &#8220;I cannot afford to dress these sets, I can&#8217;t get anything made in the studio,&#8221; but my idea was to make it like a submarine interior. And if I bought airplane scrap and broke it down, I could stick it in the sets in specific ways \u2014 because there&#8217;s an order to doing&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/the-man-who-literally-built-star-wars-set-decorator-roger-christian-tells-us-what-it-was-like-making-george-lucass-dreams-out-of-scrap-metal\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,8],"tags":[7,9],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-making-of-star-wars","category-star-wars","tag-making-of","tag-star-wars","post_format-post-format-image","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}