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Why does it take three years between the release of the new Star Wars movies?
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Answered by: Rick McCallum
That's how long it takes us to make a movie.
Episode I actually took us 5 years, including one serious year of massive conceptual art design which effected not only Episode I but also Episode II and even III to a certain degree. This one took three years, one year less than the real pre-production time we had on Episode I.
For Episode III, we're trying to start the script now and move back to about four years of total time because in reality that's how much time we need. They're very complicated to make.
It takes 18 months just to do the effects, and it takes six months to prepare for those effects, so that's two years right there. It takes us basically seven months to prepare and four months to shoot... that's another year. And then it takes us a year to conceptualize and have everything together to make the necessary commitments for locations. We don't just shoot in the studio, we stop in five different countries, we have to get permissions, schedule, just mammoth things.
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