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.

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.

Several years later, in 1975, Lucas commissioned McQuarrie to illustrate several scenes from the script of the film, Star Wars.

Neil Kendricks of The San Diego Union-Tribune stated McQuarrie " holds a unique position when it comes to defining much of the look of the " Star Wars " universe.

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.

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 obituary: Conceptual artist who brought Star Wars to life ( Guardian article )

After Galactica aired, Lucas and 20th Century Fox began legal proceedings against Universal claiming that they had plagiarised Star Wars, a matter not helped by the similar effects and design styles ( artist Ralph McQuarrie had also contributed to Galactica ).

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.

Star Warriors board game cover ( 1987, art by Ralph McQuarrie ).

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.

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

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

Neither McQuarrie nor Singer realized this at the time and they " borrowed it from people who were quoting Baudelaire themselves.

Its route The Dorsal Fin ( 5. 10d ) is a classic of the Wasatch ; first ascended by George Lowe and Mark McQuarrie in 1965, the bolts of this four-pitch were all drilled on the lead.

Rejecting all the scripts and storylines that were developed over a decade of failed production attempts, Singer developed the story for the film with DeSanto in a week and then worked on the script with writers Ed Solomon, Christopher McQuarrie, Joss Whedon, and finally David Hayter ( who had started out as Singer's driver ).

McQuarrie designed many of the film's characters, including Darth Vader, Chewbacca, R2-D2 and C-3PO and drew many concepts for the film's sets.

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

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.

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 matte personnel and Ralph McQuarrie provided design input.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.