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The official behind-the-scenes book of concept, production, and post-production art for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

Go inside the creative process behind the most anticipated film of the century. The latest trilogy in the Star Wars film series brings the Skywalker Saga to a close and The Art of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will take readers into the creative process behind visualizing the epic worlds, creatures, characters, costumes, weapons, and vehicles of the landmark conclusion more than 40 years in the making.

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Harry N. Abrams
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March 31, 2020
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“…The Art of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will give fans a deep dive into the new costumes, droids, ships and worlds that make up the movie.”―IGN

“Gathering insight from the artists and crew who brought the final chapter of the Skywalker Saga to life last year, the book is also of course, packed with never-before-seen art that depicts early ideas for the worlds, people, and events we saw explode onto screens.”―io9

“…full of behind-the-scenes details that'll drive fans wild.”―Looper

“…takes readers behind the scenes of J.J. Abrams’s saga-capping hit, celebrating the artisans who brought the film to life.”―Yahoo! Entertainment

“…showcases beautiful concept art and exclusive interviews with the filmmakers, concept artists, director J.J. Abrams, and more.”―INSIDER

“…Szostak knows a thing or two about what Star Wars fans want to see in a behind-the-scenes tome.”―SyFy Wire

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harry N. Abrams (March 31, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1419740385
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1419740381
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.7 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.95 x 1.2 x 11.95 inches

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Ben Snow

Worth EVERY Penny-

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 31, 2020

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As a life-long Star Wars fan since seeing the first film in 1977 at the age of 13, the film franchise has always captivated me with its tales of heroes and villains, Ultimate Good versus Irredeemable Evil, and the fight for justice in a galaxy that was corrupted.
Part of my fascination has been in the concept art and minor stories developed for the films, characters, places, and the machinery that makes this space opera so grandly amazing, but at the same time believable. The Art of Star Wars books, as a series, has become something of a minor obsession of mine, and this latest book is no exception.
Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of sketches and full color artwork, this book is a masterpiece of unfolding a film's journey from concept to finished work, all through the work created by dozens of artists to give life to the end of the Skywalker Saga. Its pages clearly unfold in chapters regarding the various aspects of its production; character and costume concepts, aliens, droids, and the set pieces of the worlds explored in the film, all of them breathtaking in their own right. It is in my opinion worth every penny you might spend on such a book, and will become a cherished item in my collection, and as a fan-based costume designer, one I will refer to countless times.
A must-have for fans of the Star Wars saga.

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Dale R.

An Excellent Art Book & Addition to the Series Collection!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 29, 2020

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Spoiler Alert! I will be mentioning major story plot element/reveal in my review. Please be aware.

The Art of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is a great addition to my previous collection of these same art books by the author/publisher. What's presented was exciting to see, as I love these behind-the scene and concept renderings of movies. This book doesn't disappoint in the information provided either. Most of the panels get a description of what's being presented, which was nice to read.

This book was originally slated for a December 2019 release date, and I had it originally pre-ordered. However, the publisher delayed the book an additional 3-months and as such I cancelled my pre-order. I personally viewed this publishing delay as a good thing, and my assumption was that additional material from the film might possibly be added to it. All too often what happens with these art books that release along it's companion film is that material can be missing; This is most likely due for the fact of not spoiling story elements. WHile I've always understood this, I've always felt it hurts books like this... as fans such as myself want to see that stuff. It's unknown to me for the reason of the initial publishing delay, but it finally released in March 2020 It seems that nothing was added to the initial page count though.

The biggest disappointment in this book is two-fold. For one, the first thirty pages are filled with art from the The Last Jedi movie! While that material is wonderful, and I loved what I saw, it's certainly not related art to The Rise of Skywalker at all--except that it's Star Wars of course.

The second disappointment is the absolute & complete absence of any Darth Sidious renderings, Dath Sidious' life-sustaining apparatus, the planet Exegol, The Sith Eternal, The Sith Citadel, The Final Order fleet & accompanying Xyston-class Star Destroyers, the Sith Wayfinder , Dark Rey, or any art relating to the space barrier to navigate to Exegol. While these were MAJOR story related elements and were meant to be a huge surprise for film audiences, the delay in book publishing was assumed by many (including myself) that this material was hopefully being added to it; As most of these book are generally missing spoiler-related story art.

I want to reiterate that what's published in this book is absolutely excellent, and I really love it. Truly. I certainly recommend this book to any Star Wars art fans, fans of the film in general, and collectors of the previous art books in this series/collection. The author doesn't disappoint in his work at all, and I've always been impressed with it. I give it two thumbs up!

Addendum: There's enough missing story-related material for the author and publisher to make a second art book on The Rise of Skywalker actually. Not kidding. It would be great to see further Sith related story board material, pre-concept art, or even final-concept art by Lucasfilm & ILM studios. Here's to hoping that happens!

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Great Art book as usual!

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I actually like this artbook and I noticed most reviewers mentioned "no Palpatine, little bits on the Exgol and none on Final Order (besides the officers)." I personally don't mind the lack of Palpatine and the Final Order since I feel as though they were the last-minute add-on to the movie, which happens to steal the spotlight for Kylo Ren and the First Order. Sticking on the Dark side topic, the book focuses mainly on Kylo Ren and the First Order concepts. The idea concepts of Kylo Ren taking the throne and having the whole sith fleet being part of the First Order instead of them being overthrown by Final Order, as it is shown in the movie. So I appreciated this concept where the artbook is the one giving the "spotlight" for how awesome it would be if Kylo was the main villain instead of Palpatine. And showing how cool it would be if the First Order combined it resouces with the sith fleet, while still having their system still intact. Instead of being completely overthrown or forgotten just because the movie wanted to introduce a new system, the Final Order. So I feel the artbook gave a little justice for Kylo Ren and the First Order when the movie did them dirty, despite of being just a concept.

The rest of the arts are worthwhile to look over and over again. Most of the concepts I'm seeing, I feel would've been awesome in the movie. Even Kylo has his own Star Destroyer. And the Star destroyer fleet factory made like the First Order symbol would've been so cool to see in a movie. Overall the whole idea of Kylo Ren and the First Order as being the main threat in the movie would've been ALOT better than Palpatine and the Final Order. And the artbook clearly shows it. So thank you, Phil, for sharing it with us.

The only problem I have with this book is a lack of Duel Of the Fates art concepts. I assumed they delayed the release date just to add the DOTF arts concepts in the book but I guess I was wrong. I was looking forward to it and it's a shame not to see it as being part of the collection. But the arts that were in the book did show somewhat alternative ideas than what the movie has shown as I explained above, so it was not a huge loss, I think.

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Russ

This isn’t the art for the movie I saw in the cinema

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 5, 2020

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This is “the art of the last Jedi“ & the art of “duel of the fates”.

Absolutely ZERO mention of Darth Sidious. Barely any exegol, no cloning chambers, no sith eternal.

Liked seeing more about Kylo on Mustafar but it was all cut from the movie.

The Luke and Leia training should have featured longer in the movie as should the Death Star fight.

This book was delayed remember, and they still didn’t include the art for the final product.

This whole project was a mess. In fact, this whole trilogy was a mess.

Disappointed.

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Mark Storey

Fantastic concept artwork but Infuriating book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 12, 2020

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These art of the movie books are probably one of my most favouite aspects of being fan, designer by trade and movie buff! I collect all making and art from movies books and I own an extensive collection, collected over many years. Not just Star Wars related!

Anyway regardless of what you think of the Disney made sequel trilogy it's a safe bet that anyone should be able to look at all this beautiful artworks and conceptual pieces from any of these movies and appreciate for what it is as artwork and drawings! For this set of books The Art of The Force Awakens was the definitely the best of the bunch.

My real gripe with this book is that it's frustratingly all over the place and doesn't even cover any of the main plot points or even give reference to them. For example there is no concept artwork of even reference to Emperor Palpatine. As the main and ultimate villain to the entire Saga It would have been great to see the thought process and designs involved in bringing him back. I feel so much could have been covered conceptually or briefly shown at least being the final act. Even just to graze over.

A real shame, was so excited to get the book but did feel underwelmed with overall final content.

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Mark West

Missed opportunity

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 17, 2020

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Following the same format as Szostak’s “The Art Of The Force Awakens” and “Last Jedi”, this takes “The Rise Of Skywalker” from initial concept art (along with spoiler images from “The Last Jedi”) right through to the end of production. Lucasfilm and Abrams have this kind of thing down perfected now and the book is beautifully designed, the artwork perfectly reproduced. But the tone has shifted, in that the others featured big spreads of imagery while this kind of gets bogged down in detail, so we get a whole run of “here’s a blaster” with various iterations that look almost identical (and the “wizard” is a case in point too) so it starts to feel samey very quickly. Szostak’s workman-like writing hasn’t improved at all, with the “making of” sections coming over dry and flat, along with his seeming assumption the reader has very limited retention skills (JJ Abrams is often “director JJ…” to make sure we don’t forget). His hero worship of Rick Carter (who doesn’t do much “reaching out” this time round but is still full of odd philosophical ramblings) is also unfortunately fully intact. As with all the films in this trilogy, everyone mentions going back to Ralph McQuarrie and mining his work from the 70s yet no-one seems to find the irony in there being an army of designers on his film against the three or four designers on the first trilogy, or that the work from then is superior to now. There’s also a huge missed opportunity with very little on the new fleet and absolutely nothing on Palpatine. I love Star Wars, I enjoyed this film and I love this kind of art book (and Doug Chiang’s foreword is wonderful) but, I have to say, this did try my patience.

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Jeff Homoranu-Blackheart

Was Palpatine even there.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 11, 2020

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As mentioned by all most all others there appears to be a big hole in the art work in relation to anything to do with Palpatine and instead of amending or informing people of this the have said nothing and like the guide that has no mention of Palpatine we are stuck with another fail. Even more so if the then bring out the full art work in another book.

Very disappointed I’ll not be pre ordering Star Wars any more.

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A. J. Hawkins

Disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 26, 2022

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The Rise of Skywalker is an absolute mess, and try as they might, Lucasfilm can't hide the fact that Colin Trevorrow's Duel of the Fates script had some far better moments. There are a few glimpses of what might have been, but no mention of the alternate story that was thrown away. There's also nothing showing Palpatine, which is really stupid, as the book was delayed to avoid the "spoilery" material from being leaked early, and yet it was omitted anyway. I wonder whether we'll ever see it. Like the film itself, this is a massive missed opportunity, but worth getting if you're enough of a collector that your bookshelf feels incomplete without it.

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