'Dragonslayer' Visual Effects Featurette Shows an Early Project from George Lucas' ILM [Exclusive]

This new exclusive visual effects featurette shows a closer look at Dragonslayer, one of ILMVFX's earliest projects. Watch it here:

Back in the early 80s, adventure movies had a deadly enemy: Technology. Or, more specifically, the lack of technology necessary in order to bring some concepts to life. For a movie like 1981’s Dragonslayer, for example, coming up with new and creative ways to make a scene pop was essential to make the adventure flick work, which is showcased in an exclusive featurette that Paramount Movies shared with Collider today.

The featurette will be part of the movie’s special 4K Ultra HD Limited-Edition SteelBook, which hits shelves tomorrow. It focuses on Industrial Light & Magic, the George Lucas-founded company that is a reference for visual effects to this day. Created out of the necessity of making movies look as good as they did on the storyboard, ILM worked on the visuals of classics like the original Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Back to the Future.

COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY No One But ILM Could Do Dragonslayer Dragonslayer director and co-writer Matthew Robbins also reveals in the featurette that, ever since its inception, ILM stood tall as the best company to bring ambitious visuals to life, and there was no competition when the production executives were searching for a team to handle the movie’s special effects.

Dragonslayer was co-written by Hal Barwood . The cast featured Peter MacNicol , Ralph Richardson , John Hallam , Peter Eyre , and Caitlin Clarke . The standout element of the movie at the time was, of course, the fire-breathing dragon Vermithrax Pejorative, which came to life at ILM through a combination of 16 massive dragon puppets and heavy use of go motion — a technique that made effects look more realistic through blurring of each frame.

The Dragonslayer special 4K UHD edition hits shelves tomorrow. You can watch the exclusive featurette below: Set in sixth-century England, an ill-tempered, fire-breathing creature—ominously known as Vermithrax Pejorative—terrorizes its citizens until a young sorcerer’s apprentice named Galen is reluctantly tasked with confronting the beast. For Galen to succeed, it will take more than magic to defeat the dragon.

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