The Rise and Fall of John Dykstra’s Apogee VFX
When George Lucas was dreaming up Star Wars in 1977, he envisioned visual effects that had never been seen before. Lucas initially reached out to Douglas Trumbull, the genius behind the effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey and Silent Running. But Trumbull was already committed to working on Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third…
