

“The exciting moment for me was when Han releases that escape pod on top of the Falcon to lure the space monster away,” said Shumway. This occurred as a result of the carbon bergs being hurled at the Falcon and slamming against the treacherous, canyon-like terrain.

The final selling point during The Kessel Run was how the sleek and sporty Falcon (owned by Donald Glover’s Lando) gets battered and shattered on its way to becoming Han’s more familiar junk heap.

So, the light had nice interactive detail and consistency.” And then when you turned the camera around, that same screen was used to light the actors. “But we were doing it all in real time, all in camera, going into hyper space. “If you pointed the camera above the actors, you would’ve normally gotten a visual effects shot with blue screen,” Bredow said.
