INSIDE THE STAR WARS EMPIRE: A Memoir

Inside the Star Wars Empire is the very funny and insightful tell-all about the two decades author Bill Kimberlin spent as a department director at LucasFilm Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), the special effects studio founded by the legendary filmmaker George Lucas. Bill Kimberlin may refer to himself as "one of those names on the endless list of credits at the close of blockbuster movies." In reality though, he's a true insider on some of the most celebrated and popular movies and franchises of the past century, Jurassic Park, Star Trek, Jumanji, Schindler's List, Gangs of New York, Saving Private Ryan, even Forrest Gump. And perhaps most notably, Star Wars. " This book reads like a one-sided conversation of a Hollywood has-been sitting in a coffee shop relating long-winded albeit fascinating (sometimes) stories of when he worked with the special effects team for the first "Star Wars" film back in 1976, or ran the editorial department at Lucasfilm in the early 80s, or when he made a low-budget documentary about drag-racing called "American Nitro" that got decent reviews and today has over a thousand hits on Youtube, or when he discovered that his grandfather was a rumrunner during the Prohibition era." - Scott Rhee. 272 page paperback.