Ralph McQuarrie's early sketches for the Sandcrawler ... sleek weapons - can be seen in the machinery in Star Wars. During filming in the Tunisian desert, the model Sandcrawler was, in fact ...

"Star Wars" borrows heavily from "Dune" in numerous ways, but it arguably borrows more from many other sources. Samurai films ...

Star Wars was such an ambitious effort that ... with the filmmaker enlisting the help of artist Ralph McQuarrie to craft images that conveyed the scope and scale of the sci-fi epic.

The alien species of the Star Wars universe remain fun and creative ... die shortly after the untimely passing of its rider.