Author: Phil Szostak
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Release Date: December 18, 2015
ISBN: 9781419717802
The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is one of the essential books for Abrams’ time in the Star Wars universe. It gathers concept art, production design work, story exploration, and visual development from the film’s long path from early ideas to finished movie, which makes it one of the best ways to see how Abrams and the Lucasfilm team shaped the sequel trilogy’s opening chapter.
For fans of the movie, this is where the creative process really opens up. You get the alternate directions, the unused concepts, and the design logic behind characters, worlds, ships, costumes, and creatures, which makes it one of the strongest Abrams-adjacent art books on the shelf.
