![]() We agreed we were "semi-cousins" and he said he was glad to hear from me. The books mainly feature artwork accompanied by a short explanation of the scene and the artists ideas, but also script notes, posters and other information. He was modest, gracious and generous with his time we talked for about ten minutes before making our goodbyes. I told him what little I knew about the migration of the family from Scotland during the Highland Clearings of the early 1800s, and then moved on to typical fanboy fawning over his work and Star Wars in particular and how honored I was to be working on something related to the films. He told me he wished he could help me out, but the fact was he didn't know anything about the McQuarrie family his father had abandoned his family when he was an infant, and he's never met a single relative from that side of his family. He answered the phone, I introduced myself and asked about his ancestry. ![]() When I told her what I wanted, she said "I'm sure he'd love to talk to you," and gave me his home phone number. She then called Ralph's agent, who called me. ![]() In conversation, I mentioned the possible McQuarrie-MacQuarrie connection. It turned out that the representative from Fox happened to be somebody I went to high school with. Perhaps one of the most famous pieces of Ralph McQuarrie concept art, 'Luke versus Vader' portrays a clash between two of the most powerful force users in the. Coincidentally, at the time, I happened to be working for an ad agency that was handling a major retailer's promotion of the re-released original trilogy in a shiny gold boxed VHS set. This little factoid led me to wonder if perhaps I might be related to Ralph. I learned that there are about 30 different variations of the name MacQuarrie (ranging from Maguire to McCrary to MacWhorry), and that my particular branch didn't standardize the spelling until the early 20th century the name was spelled however the census-taker decided to write it down. In 1995, when I was still fairly new to the internet, I got involved with online genealogy after a distant cousin contacted me to ask about my family. He did the same for the original Battlestar Galactica, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., and many other movies and TV shows. ![]() During the earliest stages of production, he commissioned him in 1975 to illustrate a. Impressed by his work, Lucas contacted him for the first film Star Wars: A New Hope. Ralph McQuarrie was the conceptual designer and futurist artist who George Lucas to bring the universe he had in his mind to life. Concept artist Ralph McQuarrie established the look of Darth Vader, C-3Po & R2-D2, the Tusken Raiders, Tatooine, the Death Star, the Cloud City of Bespin and many other beloved elements of the Star Wars universe. The visual father of the Star Wars universe. For the past 35 years, Star Wars has been a prominent landmark in the cultural landscape, and a large part of the visual representation of that landmark sprang from the mind and hand of one man. ![]()
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