Vader's mask was originally designed by Ralph McQuarrie as part of Vader's spacesuit, and not intended to be part of the regular costume.

The mother ship was designed by Ralph McQuarrie and built by Greg Jein.

Ralph Angus McQuarrie ( June 13, 1929 – March 3, 2012 ) was an American conceptual designer and illustrator who designed the original Star Wars trilogy, the original Battlestar Galactica TV series, E. T.

McQuarrie designed the alien ships in Steven Spielberg's films Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ) and E. T.

McQuarrie went on to work as the conceptual designer on the film's two sequels The Empire Strikes Back ( 1980 ) and Return of the Jedi ( 1983 ).

McQuarrie was interested in making a movie " that you can follow characters who don't go out of their way to ingratiate themselves to you, who aren't traditionally sympathetic ".

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote, " McQuarrie pulls, pummels and pushes us, makes his characters jump through hoops, and at the end produces carloads of ' bag men ' who have no other function than to pop up and be shot at ...

McQuarrie retired and his Star Wars concept paintings were subsequently displayed in art exhibitions, including the 1999 Star Wars: The Magic of Myth.

Jendresen is attached to multiple projects in various stages of development, including National Geographic Films ' Aloft ( starring Robert Redford ), The Hot Zone ( based on Richard Preston's novel ) Fire ( based on the Sebastian Junger book of the same name ), The 300 Spartans, Explaining Hitler, Cousteau, The Immortals, Journey to the Center of the Earth, a prequel to Star Trek, a 4-hour miniseries, " Majestic-12 ", a television series based on the history of The Pony Express with Robert Duvall, a television series based on the Francis Ford Coppola film, " The Conversation ", with Christopher McQuarrie, a television series " Mars " with NBC, a television series " Neurasthenia " with Melanie Griffith, an 8-hour miniseries adaptation of " Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West " with Salma Hayek and ABC, and a feature presentation " Killing Lincoln " which he is co-producing with Ridley Scott for the National Geographic Channel.

Ralph McQuarrie, the designer of Darth Vader, visiting Industrial Light & Magic | ILM in 2008

It was McQuarrie who suggested that Vader wear breathing apparatus.

The box includes a limited-edition full-color print of a painting by artist Ralph McQuarrie, " Yoda and R2-D2 in the swamps of Dagobah ".

Daniels initially did not agree to be cast as C-3PO ; but changed his mind after reading C-3PO's part in the script and seeing a concept painting by Ralph McQuarrie., who based his early design largely on the Maschinenmensch.

A McQuarrie Star Wars design looks like what would have resulted if Salvador Dali had sketched concepts for Universals 1936 Flash Gordon serial by way of Sergio Leones Old West.

The alien probe was the responsibility of ILM's model shop, which brought in outside help like illustrator Ralph McQuarrie for concept art.

The script's only direction for the effect was " now go through time "; Nimoy and McQuarrie envisioned Kirk's dream as a montage of bizarre images.

Singer and McQuarrie collaborated again on the 1995 film The Usual Suspects, for which McQuarrie received best screenplay awards from Premiere magazine, The Texas Board of Review, and the Chicago Critics as well as the Edgar Award, The Independent Spirit Award, and the British and American Academy Awards.

McQuarrie spent the next several years dividing his time between rewriting studio movies ( such as Singer ’ s X-Men ) and developing a screenplay on the life of Alexander the Great, written with Peter Buchman, for Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio.

In an interview, McQuarrie talked about how the plot succeeded in one key respect ; despite the conspirators ' obvious failure to kill Hitler, one of their objectives was also for history to reflect that they tried so the world would know that not all of Germany or its military was sympathetic to Hitler.

In the 1970s, he also co-wrote an unproduced screenplay with his frequent co-worker Matthew Robbins called Star Dancing, for which Ralph McQuarrie was contracted to do a series of conceptual paintings.

It was written specifically for this volume and inspired by the McQuarrie cover illustration.

While there, McQuarrie was asked by Hal Barwood to produce some illustrations for a film project he and Matthew Robbins were starting.

An action figure in his likeness as " General McQuarrie " was produced for Star Wars 30th anniversary.

Rick McCallum offered McQuarrie a role as designer for the Star Wars prequel trilogy, but he rejected the offer, noting he had " run out of steam " and Industrial Light & Magic animator Doug Chiang was appointed instead.

* Ralph McQuarrie Concept Sketches and Concept Paintings for Battlestar Galactica ( 1978 )

After winning an Academy Award for The Usual Suspects, Christopher McQuarrie assumed that he would have no problem making his next movie " and then you slowly start to realize no one in Hollywood is interested in making your film, they're interested in making their films ".

McQuarrie met Benicio del Toro for coffee and he asked the screenwriter why he had not made another crime film.

In his review for Time, Richard Corliss criticized McQuarrie for devising, " a two-hour gunfight interrupted by questions of paternity.

As a writer / producer for film his projects include " Sublime ", directed by Tony Krantz and starring Tom Cavanagh and Kathleen York, " American Voodoo ", " Otis " ( with director Tony Krantz ), " The Big Bang " ( starring Antonio Banderas and Sam Elliott, " The Last President " ( directed by Anhony Drazan ), " The Human Comedy " ( directed by Meg Ryan ), " Saint-Ex ", directed by Christopher McQuarrie, and " Solo ", directed by Antonio Banderas.

Gigantes finished third in her bid for re-election in Carleton East, falling behind both Liberal Bernard Grandmaitre and the winner, Progressive Conservative Bob McQuarrie.

Singer wrote the concept for Public Access with high school friend Christopher McQuarrie, and fellow USC student Michael Feit Dougan wrote the first draft in ten days about a supposedly idyllic small town.

While attending the 1993 Sundance Film Festival, Singer and McQuarrie began discussing an idea that McQuarrie had for a story where " five criminals meet in a police line-up ".

Writer McQuarrie won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay and the BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay, composer / editor Ottman won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing and the Saturn Award for Best Music and actor Kevin Spacey won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Early in the production, Ralph McQuarrie had been hired to redesign the ship.

Chapter 24, D A McQuarrie, J D Simon Physical Chemistry: A Molecular Approach.

Concept artist Ralph McQuarrie influenced Fett's design, which was finalized by and is credited to Joe Johnston.

The matte personnel and Ralph McQuarrie provided design input.

Jim attempts to escape with Selena and Hannah, but is captured by the soldiers, along with a Sergeant Farrell ( Stuart McQuarrie ), who disagrees with the major's plan and tried to stop the other soldiers from imprisoning the group.

Christopher McQuarrie ( born 1968 ) is an American screenwriter, producer and director.

McQuarrie was born and raised in Princeton Junction, New Jersey, where he attended West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South with director Bryan Singer, actor Ethan Hawke and musician James Murphy.

McQuarrie also wrote and directed The Way of the Gun, starring Benicio del Toro, Ryan Phillippe, and James Caan.

The film failed to live up to the acclaim of McQuarrie ’ s earlier films.

One Shot is an upcoming film being directed by McQuarrie, an adaptation of One Shot, a 2005 best selling novel by Lee Child.

Josh Olson worked on the early screenplay and adapted it from the original novel, while McQuarrie worked on the finished script.

Following reports that a stolen light plane ( piloted by Pat McQuarrie ) was approaching the stadium, police cancelled the match.

* Archive of McQuarrie, Jim, " Amazing Adult Fantasy No. 9 ", " Oddball Comics " ( column ), # 1151, April 9, 2007

The Weekenders is a Disney animated series about the weekend life of four diverse 7th graders: Tino Tonitini, Lorraine (" Lor ") McQuarrie, Carver Descartes, and Petratishkovna (" Tish ") Katsufrakis, voiced by veteran cartoon voice-actors: Jason Marsden, Grey DeLisle, Phil LaMarr, and Kath Soucie, respectively.

Lorraine " Lor " McQuarrie ( voiced by Grey DeLisle ) is a tomboy and the " jock " of the group.