Star Wars Episode I / The Phantom Menace  Medium: Acrylic paints & colored pencils on gessoed board Size: 30x40 inches Year 1999 Drew speaking with George Lucas director and writer of the Star Wars Epic Drew: “Why do you use illustration to advertise and represent your projects? Computer manipulated photographs dominate the advertising of so many studios, but you continue to loyally choose illustration….” George Lucas: “The kind of movies I make are more fanciful in nature, more mythical in nature. To market my films, I like to move one step away from photo- realism to something that’s a little grander, a little more glorious, and something a bit more romantic than what you get with just simple photographs.” Signed and dated "drew 1999" center left edge. © Copyright & TM Lucasfilm Ltd. 1999 Used by permission All right reserved 