That personalisation included the now blink-and-you’ll-miss-it inclusion of some infamous chrome hanging dice. The exterior had to look used and pretty beaten up, and the cockpit had to be a fantasy that you felt could work.” I put in pipes and bits of dressing to try and personalise it. “It would’ve been too clean but it was a good basis.
“He created the panels and switches slightly (like 2001), was done, and then I came along and fucked it all up to give it the Star Wars look!” laughs Christian. Oscar-nominated art director Harry Lange, who was behind the interiors on Stanley Kubrick’s epic 2001: A Space Odyssey, was appointed to work on the Falcon’s cockpit. That’s how it was done in those early days.” We’d just get a package once a week and we’d look and go, ‘Oh my god this is what we gotta build!’ and we’d send back drawings. “We never met because we were on two different sides of the Atlantic and there wasn’t email.
“He laughs about it now because it was literally making a hamburger into a ship!” says Christian. “I think that was great – it created a ship that had never been seen before or since and that round shape has become a very iconic kind of image,” reflects Christian.įrom McQuarrie’s painting, miniature effects illustrator and designer Joe Johnston drew further sketches and made a miniature model, enabling the design process to evolve further. Significantly, McQuarrie’s Falcon realigned that cockpit from a conventional front positioning to the rather irregular side of that “half-eaten hamburger” design. In fact, the only noticeable design aspect that was utilised from McQuarrie’s original concept was the cockpit, which derived from the Boeing B-29 Superfortress – a fighter plane used in World War Two. Production illustrator Ralph McQuarrie’s originally linear Falcon design was instead modified into the Rebels’ Blockade Runner, Tantive IV, the first ship seen entering the Star Wars universe in A New Hope.
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