A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Front cover art: Production painting of K-2SO by Doug Chiang. © 2016 Abrams Books and Lucasfilm Ltd/ (LFL) On December 16, 2016, New York-based Abrams Books published The Art of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, a 256-page hardcover book of concept art created during the making of director Gareth Edwards' Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the first of Lucasfilm's standalone "Anthology" films  set "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Written by Josh Kushins ( The Art of John Carter: A Visual Journey ), the book features concept paintings, set designs, sketches of new spaceships, weapons, and other props, as well as art depicting Rogue One' s cast of Rebels and Imperials. This book is a visual chronicle of the Lucasfilm art department’s creation of new worlds, unforgettable characters, and newly imagined droids, vehicles, and weapons for the first movie in the Star Wars Story series— Rogue One: A Star Wars Story . In the same format and style as Abrams’...

Cover Art: "Rey and the Island" concept painting by James Clyne. © 2017 Abrams Books and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) On December 15, 2017, Abrams Books, an imprint of New York publisher Henry N. Abrams, released Phil Szostak's The Art of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Published on Opening Day of director Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi, this was Szostak's third volume in a series of illustrated books that focus on the concept art created by Lucasfilm's Art Department during the making of the post-George Lucas Sequel Trilogy and the standalone Star Wars Anthology movies. An image archivist who has worked for The Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm in the past, Szostak was embedded with Lucasfilm's Art Department almost as soon as George Lucas retired from making blockbuster films and sold his famous production company and all of its assets to Disney in 2012. As a result, he has been in a good position to cover the illustrators, set designers, pre-vis artis...