The Making of Star Wars - The Phantom Menace 

I adore George's passion and energy. You entire set and many expensive and complex props have been destroyed in a storm - "I say it's good luck"

I’ve actually seen this more than I have the actual movie. Because as a kid I lost the DVD and so I was just stuck with this so I watched it over and over and over again.

The year was 2000, I as a little boy 12 yrs old, my family was so poor we had only small black and white TV when I catched the announcement of Star Wars Episode I on a TV channel. I was astonished and barely managed to convince my mom to let me watch on the next day. That was amazing. Couple years atrer, we had a color TV and a VHS player and mom gifted me a tape with Episode II. And a third one I watched in theather, bought a ticket for earned money, I was already adult and that movie shocked me. The whole trilogy was processed and consumed by my brains for years, re-watched again and againg, now I'm 34 and I'm still eager to watch it one more time because of the genius of George Lucas and selfless labor of his team. Great respect!

I was 17 when this movie came out. This is the one that got me into Star Wars. So nostalgic for me.

Probably the best making of documentary I’ve ever seen. Probably because you get every bit of development from the writing to the premiere.

Looking back at the making of the Prequels you can see just how much love and work went into them. It's a shame so many people write them off as "just CGI fests".

Naboo starfighter = thing of BEAUTY!!!

When I was 3 years old I was going through a major surgery where I almost died but prior to my surgery where we didn’t know what was wrong with me I was in immense pain all the time, constant stays in the hospital constant pain. The only thing that made me not focus on the pain was watching the phantom menace with my dad. I can’t tell you how many times me and my dad watched this movie together, I’m 24 now and to this day Star Wars is still a massive part of my life, it brings me comfort all the time, these movies in my mind is a good reason why I’m still here

Man. These documentaries are so magical.

I'm watching the first 3 episodes again and enjoying them. Rich in detail.

we all owe john williams a huge thank you, for everything

I can't even BEGIN to explain how much Star Wars means to me. Thankyou George, John, and all the wonderful people who made this far, far away galaxy possible.

Long Live The King

George Lucas is brilliant. Such patience and natural talent. The level of passion and attention to detail invested in all aspects of this movie created a world with beauty that has only been captured so few times. It's incredible the way so many teams worked together to make this happen. Truly astounding

I've watched a lot of movie behind the scene documentaries before, but this is the only one that reminded me why I enjoyed doing plays back in my schooldays.

I will never listen to the haters of the prequels ever again. So much love and passion went into this movie that started with just an idea. Thanks for painting us a beautiful picture George!

Im a artist myself but this is mind blowing! The blood sweat and tears. The vision and the carpenters!! Wow

Terryl Whitlatch put all her wonderful creativity & joy into Jar Jar- her enthusism is infectious. She designed him for kids knowing they would love the character- and they did. Pity a bunch of 40 yr old's had to turn him into a character for their scorn and cynicism. bitter from the frustrations that life hasn't worked out for them. Jar Jar was a giant step up in sfx computer generated character. many subsequent movie characters only existed because of the technology pioneered to create him. Meesa thinkin' he no so bad after all. [i'm sorry for that. no excuses. My kids loved my Jar Jar impersonations and who am I to take that away from them].

I don’t know why people didn’t like this one. I loved The Phantom Menace.

You can see how much craftsmanship was put into all the Prequels. Not a fan of any of em’ but I feel & hear Lucas’ voice in every scene.

These are one of the videos I come back to that inspires me into the art of filmmaking.

the part with Stuart Freeborn is great

This is Star Wars! No more no less. Thank you George.

My first words believe it or not was Darth Maul. I was born 1999 & my dad was a huge Star Wars fan. “Darf Maaauuu” is how he said I would say it.

George really understood world building and design. Wish he expanded into more things outside of star wars and indy.

I grew up with prequels do I always loved them ! But this gives a whole other level of appreciation

I can’t get over how transparent Lucas was all through the prequel trilogy. Cameras rolling all the time. Nothing to hide. Disney…… everyone is held at gunpoint talking about Star Wars now. 😆

22:21 wow this was prabobly a reference sequence that was traced animated and used in Anakins vs Ventress duel in original 2003 clone wars. I caught that becouse one day I was trying to handdraw this fight frame by frame, and this looks very familiar and makes sense

Seeing Jake Lloyd's performance as young Anakin played side-by-side with the other candidates makes me appreciate him a little more. There was definitely effort on his part.

This footage is incredible. These movies did not turn out well, but George really did try to give us something unique and original.

The 3 takes of "someday im going to fly away from this place" etc was the most obvious choice ever😂 it sounded natural instantly, jake did an outstanding job i cant imagine how it wouldve been with the other two, no offence to them of course jake just had it downpat straight away

A great documentary on the making of a great film

George Lucas started writing the backstory of Star Wars and an origin story back in late 1994. Lucas explained in an interview how it took a long time to prep them and would release one by the late 1990s.

Old fans didn't like the CGI but I love the CGI 👍

This video is really inspiring me, getting me to think about certain details. I'm currently trying to write a book with George's mindset and I try and watch him making things to get inspired to try making things myself

George Lucas …. A true gift to humanity …. We are very fortunate that he gave us Star Wars …. George Lucas created such beauty … to bring everyone’s talents to fulfill a true masterpiece …. Star Wars

There is no wrong way to grieve. Be gone as long as you need. I just discovered you and look forward to going back through your videos.

Love this overall. My one and only gripe aesthetically speaking is the Yoda puppet. Really, he should look identical to TESB/ROTJ. He's nearly 900 years old - just 30 years should be almost nothing to him in his older years. Like the difference between 73 and 75 years for a human.

I was 8 and this movie got me into Star Wars

watching this video 20 times at least, made me fall in love with the prequels. The imagination and creativity that went into them is astounding. whatever minor faults with dialogue cannot take away from the magical world that George Lucas created for us in these 3 movies. This galaxy was expanded far beyond the origanal trilogy and enriched our Star Wars knowledge. in Phantom Menace we also have the best ever light sabre duel, the best action sequence with the pod race and the coolest Jedi of all - Qui Gon, and Scariest Sith was Darth Maul. duel of the fates is the finest musical score. Coruscant a planet city was special Jar Jar was such an advance in sfx I just cannot help love him. especially when you see the love and care that his creator put into the character, how cool was the Senate design? Jake Lloyd was delightful [making his loss to the Sith all the more tragic. [shame on all the losers who took away the pleasure he should have been able to cherish, being in Star Wars, for his whole life]. my only dissappointment was that Yoda was not the fun, mischievous character of Empire.

This is my favourite Star Wars, hands off!

Me and my mom walked 2 miles to a mall that no longer exists to see Phantom Menace, X-Men 1, Fellowship of the Ring, and King Kong 2003. I would've been 4-8yo in those days, great memories.

The footage of them practicing the fight scenes puts what ended up in the movie to shame

My favorite scene is where the 2 characters walk in front of a green screen and then stop and talk, and then start walking again

I feel nostaligic because the dream is over now... Thank you Mr Lucas🎖️

Ahmed Best is too good for us.

46:15 12-13 year old Keira Knightley!

The mortis gods smile down upon the one who keeps these docs on youtube

George called John Williams "Johnny" is shown they are a great friends

33:22 i know its only one clip, but am i the only one who thinks devin was the best anakin audition?

The good old days 😊

Skywalker Sound really popped off for this

A filmmakers treat

The drawings are fucking beautiful

I wish I could’ve held that n-1 star fighter model it’s my favorite ship

Honestly I don’t get the hate, looking back at it the prequels are fantastic movies!

I like Darth maul

I was only 2 years old 1994 awww lil baby! lol one more year now and one foot in grave

I like jar jar ..it gives depth ..there's all sorts of characters across all spectrums In star wrars

Love this

Behind the scenes

George is just awesome.

I'm 48 and have been a huge Star Wars franchise fan for the majority of my life. Like everything else I hold near and dear, this major love has disappointed me a few times. But those are very few and, like always, far in between. LOVED episodes 4-6, or as I still refer to them as, the first 3. Which in terms of theatrical release, would be correct. I feel the last 3 sequels were, well, unnecessary for lack of a more pleasant term.

6:07 Its the Horten jet!

I can listen to George talk all day lol

Showing the adventures of young darth Vader is such a choice

Love it

legendary

Liam Neeson was a mentor before being a mentor was even his thing.

Sweet.

*”Jar-jar is the key to all this..”*

That’s how you make a movie: A deep story behind everything, creativity and an idea. It’s not about the money and having millions of a budget to get a soulless couple of scenes, that are written lazy and based on someone else’s ideas, like Disney does. George created an universe, and extended it with the prequels because he had a vision. Disney makes prequels, sequels and prequels of the sequels but has no creative vision behind it, only money and identity politics.

They answered alot of questions I had thank you 1st was who was the mother

Damn the kid who played anakin is a much better actor point blank period.

54:26 this part never made it to the finale film for some reason

The Genius of George Lucas never fails to amaze me.

29:15 They added the bottom half of the slate in post.

Early version of Dual of the Fates. Pretty interesting

wow this is big

It was all along meant to be a 12 something hour epic story. I guess they learned from their (sequel) mistake.

Anyone else catch the E.T.’s at the end🧐

wish there were subtitles, even auto generated ;(

@46:17 Was that Keira, or did they use another decoy?

The worldbuilding is some of the best ever, like the Clone Wars series and so forth. What wordlbuilding are in the sequels? New rebels, new empire. It's ironic: prequels are more boring movies (except ep 3 which I love), but sequels are less interesting. It's like poetry - it rhymes... EDIT: 18:16 - Tarkin Van Helsing poster in the background. Nice

Please buy back Lucasfilm befre it's too late

Can you guys add subtitles :(

I’m not afraid to admit that I like the prequels better than the originals. Some would say that Darth Maul was the only good aspect of Phantom Menace but I strongly disagree, I enjoyed the whole movie and still to this day I think it’s a great movie.👌👍

Is that Walter white at 55:14?

😍😍

I love the prequels. Yeah, some things I don't like but the attention to detail is evident. Modern Star Wars just throws that all out the window sadly.

51:12 Lol. RIP Kenny Baker, our R2-D2.

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47:36 I am watching this sequence about R2D2 and thinking to myself. Imagine telling these artists and engineers there and then that they were working on a *lesbian* robot. What would their faces turn into and how fast you would be kicked out of the building? For some reason, this idea makes me believe that Leslye Headland is not just a ridiculous person but utterly braindead.

George almost killed by a truck. 29:45

The prequels blow, but the documentaries are really interesting.

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People were and still are often unfair towards the Prequals, especially when they don't look at the behind the scenes footage to get a sense how much work and effort was put into it. I don't understand why a lot of Original fans thought things could be exactly as they were in the 1970s and what was wrong with CGI being used to brake boundaries anyway? Not to mention what happened to poor Jake Lloyd. His schizophrenia probably wouldn't have gotten so bad had people not been jealous and the press been more controlled.

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*ahk* i dont want to quote future George... but well... let's just say that the Prequels are getting better like fine wine. Watched these with my dad, just like OG Star Wars. Even though it;s now sold, can't change the bottled lightning!@

46:19 Keira Knightley