{"id":84,"date":"2015-06-06T08:53:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T08:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2016-09-18T19:27:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T19:27:27","slug":"did-star-wars-become-a-toy-story-producer-gary-kurtz-looks-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/did-star-wars-become-a-toy-story-producer-gary-kurtz-looks-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Did \u2018Star Wars\u2019 become a toy story? Producer Gary Kurtz looks back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/latimesherocomplex.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01348625903e970c-800wi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/latimesherocomplex.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01348625903e970c-800wi.jpg\" alt=\" Gary Kurtz camera\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/herocomplex.latimes.com\/movies\/star-wars-was-born-a-long-time-ago-but-not-all-that-far-far-away-in-1972-filmmakers-george-lucas-and-gary-kurtz-wer\/\">\u201cStar Wars\u201d was born a long time ago, but not all that far, far away. In 1972, filmmakers George Lucas and Gary Kurtz were toiling on \u201cAmerican Graffiti\u201d in their San Rafael office when they began daydreaming about a throwback sci-fi adventure that channeled the old \u201cFlash Gordon\u201d serials as opposed to the bleak \u201cmessage\u201d movies that had taken over the genre.<\/a> \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/herocomplex.latimes.com\/movies\/star-wars-was-born-a-long-time-ago-but-not-all-that-far-far-away-in-1972-filmmakers-george-lucas-and-gary-kurtz-wer\/\">A Great Article from the LATimes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">\u201cStar Wars\u201d was born a long time ago, but not all that far, far away. In 1972, filmmakers George Lucas and Gary Kurtz were toiling on \u201cAmerican Graffiti\u201d in their San Rafael office when they began daydreaming about a throwback sci-fi adventure that channeled the old \u201cFlash Gordon\u201d serials as opposed to the bleak \u201cmessage\u201d movies that had taken over&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/did-star-wars-become-a-toy-story-producer-gary-kurtz-looks-back\/\">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":[19,9],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-making-of-star-wars","category-star-wars","tag-interview","tag-star-wars","post_format-post-format-image","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}