John Knoll
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Sep 11, 2026
Robert LambHOST
This was an Industrial Light & Magic picture so, um, tons of credits here.
Robert LambHOST
John Knoll was, I believe, the effects supervisor.
Robert LambHOST
Overall, I'd say everything looks really good here.
Robert LambHOST
There, there's some digital effects in there, a lot of practical effects.
Rob LambHOST
This was an Industrial Light & Magic picture, so, um, tons of credits here.
Rob LambHOST
John Knoll was, I believe, the effects supervisor Overall, I'd say everything looks really good here.
Rob LambHOST
There, there's some digital effects in there, a lot of practical effects.
Rob LambHOST
I think a little bit of CGI, but it-- I think it all integrates nicely.
DarrenHOST
I love it.
ChrisHOST
Look at John Knoll.
ChrisHOST
John Knoll, by the time John Knoll got to Star Wars, they weren't doing anything...
ChrisHOST
Like the old stuff, right? But they wanted to make a ship fly the old way from the Mandalorian, and John Knoll built it in his garage, and they did it.
ChrisHOST
Nice.
ChrisHOST
And I'm not talking about building the model.
D. VizslaHOST
Filoni, he got involved later, but guys like Rian Johnson and J.J. Abrams, when they were developing the 789 movies, she was working on those.
D. VizslaHOST
And of course, John Knoll pitched Rogue One, and they said yes.
D. VizslaHOST
I can't remember the Miller and something, the guys that originally wrote Solo was, you know, ultimately got taken over by Ron Howard, but, you know, they pitched that.
D. VizslaHOST
So it's like, and then, of course, all the Disney Plus stuff, like Favreau with Mandalorian and, Obi-Wan Kenobi and, you know, Skeleton Crew and all these things.
Dominic JonesHOST
To me, they became like celebrities like Ben Burtt and Joe Johnston, Ralph McQuarrie, John Dykstra.
Dominic JonesHOST
And then you get to the prequels with John Knoll and Rob Coleman and Ben Burtt again and Dennis Buren.
Dominic JonesHOST
Ben Burtt and Dennis Buren across both trilogies are equally important.
Dominic JonesHOST
And yeah.
Dominic JonesHOST
To me, they became like celebrities like Ben Burtt and Joe Johnston, Ralph McQuarrie, John Dykstra.
Dominic JonesHOST
And then you get to the prequels with John Knoll and Rob Coleman and Ben Burtt again and Dennis Buren.
Dominic JonesHOST
Ben Burtt and Dennis Buren across both trilogies are equally important.
Dominic JonesHOST
Yeah.
Russell GuestHOST
George Lucas is no longer the guiding hand of the Star Wars franchise.
Russell GuestHOST
And as Disney got a hold of this, writer John Knoll heard about some of these early concepts from the new Star Wars, and he wasn't really impressed with any of them.
Russell GuestHOST
He began developing his own idea for the film and started talking up to fellow ILM employees, kind of developed his 30 minute pitch for it.
Russell GuestHOST
And people liked it a lot.
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Russell GuestHOST
And so that's really cool to see all that.
Russell GuestHOST
Somebody who has that joy for it.
Russell GuestHOST
He was the one who also went to battle for John Knoll's writing that everybody had to die.
Russell GuestHOST
Kathleen Kennedy said, Cassian and Jen need to live at the end of this one.
Justin van der LekGUEST
Not just the tech, but also the knowledge.
Justin van der LekGUEST
The Hal Hickles, you know, the John Knowles.
Justin van der LekGUEST
It's insane what these guys have done.
Justin van der LekGUEST
just to be able to learn every day and to not always quickly grab that shortcut of like, Oh, we'll do it all CG.