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Producer
Gender
Male
Birthday
22 August
Location
Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Edit pageRick McCallum
Biography
Richard McCallum (born August 22, 1950) is an American film producer. He is mostly known for his work on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and the Star Wars Special Editions and Prequel Trilogy. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with American filmmaker George Lucas. However, he was also a long-time producer for British television playwright Dennis Potter, most notably on The Singing Detective.
During the production of Radioland Murders, Lucas confided to McCallum the plans for three new Star Wars movies. To test the nascent digital technology just then becoming available, McCallum produced revised versions of the original Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi – released in 1997 as the Special Editions.
Assembling the teams that worked both in front of and behind the cameras, McCallum produced the next three films, which Lucas wrote and directed: Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005).
The Star Wars prequels also ushered in a new era of digital filmmaking, and McCallum played a leading role in its development, overseeing a team of creative and technical professionals that developed and created the industry's first all-digital production pipeline. McCallum makes a cameo appearance in The Phantom Menace near the film's end when Palpatine arrives on Naboo.
