Rick McCallum

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Rick McCallum
Rick McCallum at the German premiere of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith in Berlin.

Rick McCallum (born August 23, 1952 in Heidelberg ) is an American film producer. He is the stepson of actor Michael York . His mother Patricia McCallum is a photographer.

Career

Rick McCallum began his career as a producer with the screen adaptation of Dance in the Clouds , starring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters , where he first worked with British screenwriter Dennis Potter . McCallum and Potter subsequently reunited for the production of the six-part BBC series The singing Detective .

He also entered into an artistic relationship with director Nicolas Roeg , who also produced two of his films Track 29 - A dangerous game (1987) and Castaway - Die Insel (1987), which McCallum also produced. Other films in which he was involved, including Dennis Potter Black Eyes , Neil Simon Actually, I want to film (1982) and Heading Home (1991) with Gary Oldman and almost anonymous A ratio , where David Hare was responsible for script and direction . Another of McCallum's films called Dreamchild, written by Potter, was nominated for two BAFTA Awards . McCallum produced the HBO film On Tidy Endings for television. He also produced the Rolling Stones' music video for the song Undercover, which won the MTV Award for Best Video of the Decade .

From 1990 onwards, McCallum worked exclusively with George Lucas for more than two decades . You worked on the feature film Radioland Murders and the critically acclaimed television series The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones . The series was filmed in 27 countries over a four-year period, received Emmy nominations, and won 11 of those awards.

McCallum produced the three prequel parts of the Star Wars saga and previously controlled the extensive work on the special editions of the old Star Wars trilogy, which was released a second time in 1997.

In 2012 he was involved as a producer on the war film Red Tails . In the fall of the same year he left the Lucasfilm production company .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 'Star Wars' producer Rick McCallum Quietly Retired from Lucasfilm at firstshowing.net, accessed November 26, 2012
personal data
SURNAME McCallum, Rick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg