The Making of Star Wars - The Phantom Menace

Making of Star Wars - The Phantom Menace (1999). This video is not an official product. It was created and edited by a team of dedicated fans of Lucasfilm. The footage used are the webisodes and featurettes officially released by Lucasfilm. All rights to any material used remain courtesy of their respective owners.

[pleaseenteraname]

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.

[cornholes]

Man. These documentaries are so magical.

[LouieC]

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

[SmokeyBCN]

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"

[true_xander]

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!

[Mafr]

Naboo starfighter = thing of BEAUTY!!!

[b-battledroid]

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

[coolman]

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".

[crabcore]

I've been falling asleep to all 3 of these Making Of videos since they were released. Please don't take these down

[heibai]

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.

[LionClaw]

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

[ZanderFoulner]

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].

[athenstar]

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.

[IronBeagle]

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

[marlogne]

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

[metrometheus]

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

[peterjohnson]

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

[HULK-HOGAN]

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

[TechNneNZ]

Just started watching this and in the 1st 5 mins have realised i havnt seen this interview at all. Im in fir a treat!!!!

[saintmanuel]

the part with Stuart Freeborn is great