The Top 50 Moments of Star Wars Celebration Anaheim
By Kyle Warnke
31. Return of the Jedi Producer Howard Kazanjian
It was one of the few panels at the convention where you could simply walk right in and take a seat rather than standing in line, but the fascinating session with Return of the Jedi producer Howard Kazanjian should have been standing room only.
I had the fortune of listening to Kazanjian talk about what it was like coordinating the production of Episode VI. The movie gets a lot of flak, but Kazanjian is clearly still very proud of what they pulled off in the film, and he even showed off a few of his archived clips from behind the scenes back in the day.
Plus, he dropped a small nugget of film trivia when he revealed the reason why David Lynch turned down the opportunity to direct: The Twin Peaks filmmaker wanted to bring in his own replacements for Ben Burtt and John Williams.
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