More Movie Memories: More Star Wars Memories, Marketing Genre Movies in the '80s, Writing Animation, and More Paperback – June 21, 2024

Craig Miller’s first book, Star Wars Memories, told stories about the years he spent as the original Director of Fan Relations at Lucasfilm, working on Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back and his interactions with George Lucas, Gary Kurtz, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and the rest of the people behind those films. Now, with this new book, he tells more stories from his time in the (Death Star) trenches with those films as well as the rest of his nearly 50 year career in Hollywood. More Movie Memories is about one-third more tales from his time with Lucasfilm (including how and why he had a character’s name changed, the line of dialogue he came up with, and who was Star Wars’ Secret Weapon), another third about the films he worked on after leaving Lucasfilm (like Superman II, Altered States, The Thing, The Dark Crystal, The Last Starfighter, Return to Oz, Krull, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Splash, and more), and another third on his “second career” as a television writer, (on animated shows like The Real Ghostbusters, The Smurfs, Curious George, G.I. Joe, Transformers: Beast Wars, as well as shows for China, France, Italy, and Dubai as well as live-action series like Murder, She Wrote and The Hunger). As Gary Kurtz, the producer of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, said about Star Wars Memories, “This isn’t another ‘making of’ book with the same stories and information that have appeared in other books and countless magazine articles. It’s a book of stories you haven’t heard before; an insider’s look from someone who, himself, is a fan and found the whole experience joyful and exciting. These stories are told in a way that brings you in and makes you feel like you were there.” Read more