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    How Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is connected to the Mac

    by JASON SNELL Jan 24, 2017 3 minutes

    What do Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, opened in December, and the Mac have in common?

    John Knoll is chief creative officer at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the division of LucasFilm that has been a leader in creating special effects for decades. And, yes, ILM is responsible for the special effects in Rogue One.

    But beyond his role as a leader at ILM, John Knoll is the executive producer of Rogue. When Disney bought LucasFilm and announced that it would be making annual Star Wars films, including ones that weren’t the continuation of the story from Return of the Jedi, Knoll pitched  that had its origins in the opening crawl of the original 1977 Star Wars.

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