The New and Improved Millennium Falcon Featured in the Latest Issue of Fortune Magazine!
“Fortune” magazine is the first place people think to go to look for Star Wars: The Force Awakens news, right? Not really, but we’ll tell you why you might want to pick up this month’s issue after the hyperspace jump.
“Fortune” magazine is set to feature the Millennium Falcon in its January issue. The new shots of the Falcon were created specifically for Fortune magazine and include a special cover complete with the “new” radar dish. The magazine features an article about Disney CEO Bob Iger and how he has absorbed many of the greatest franchises and film production companies, Pixar & Lucasfilm Ltd. to name a couple, into the Disney conglomerate. In a first for the prestigious and highly regarded financial magazine Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light and Magic created the featured photos specifically for the cover story:
As for the cover shot, Yannick Dusseault, visual effects art director for The Force Awakens, and his team gave Fortunesix options showing the Falcon in different ways. The resulting image required the custom rendering of ILM’s computer generated Falcon. According to ILM, the fabled ship was rendered in wireframe form (a skeletal version) as well as a more layered “textured render,” which were combined in Photoshop to create the final image.
The resulting cover is one Fortune founder Henry Luce probably couldn’t have imagined over eight decades ago. But whether you read the story online or in print, the mashup of Iger and the iconic spacecraft is emblematic of the times: Like all entertainment companies, Disney, which has been around even longer than Fortune, has had to out-innovate itself time and time again. As the lines between technology and pretty much everything else blur, even cutting-edge ILM has had to constantly up its game. The updated Falcon—and our cover—is a testament to that evolution.
It is apropos that a Star Wars icon be featured on a magazine at the start of 2015 as it is a fitting way to kick off the year of Star Wars. And if you’re a Star Wars collector, especially of ephemera, this is one magazine that you will surely want to add to your collection as this little oddity is likely the first printed look at the updated Millennium Falcon as it will soon appear in The Force Awakens.
First!
Oh dear, is it 2002 again? Only 13 years until Episode VII…
You got served!
Is there a high rez version of Iger standing in the studio with the Falcon? That picture looks amaaaaaaaaazing!
I’m not a fan of the rendered falcon, I hope they remove the flat textures and replace them with 3D parts.
This image looks a lot better, though I still prefer the one in the room 🙂
https://fortunedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/discov.jpg
Empty cockpit though 🙁 would have been funny to see a leak of post ROTJ Han Solo in the image.
She may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts, kid.
Bob Iger must be literally rolling in money.
Running a Movie Studio isn’t like dusting crops boy!
“The resulting image required the custom rendering of ILM’s computer generated Falcon”
So much for practical effects.
Yep. Bob with Millennium photo looks so digital…
Aaaaaaaaaaaand, as digital trademark, MF looks a little fake
Actually, I think the shot with Bob is on set. It’s the cover that’s digital.
Yeah, i know is on set but it looks so digital cause photoshop.
They have built the Falcon for most exterior shots, there are steelwork plans leaked already.
Dude you post in every article about your beef with people who want more practical effects. We get it man. 🙂
Actually that is not a very good cover. The ship’s front looks a bit weird and I notice poor photoshop work.
agreed
Guys, it’s a magazine cover, not a still from the actual movie. Calm yourselves.
Yes, they’re rendered from the same source, but they clearly took a custom approach for the cover.
Who wrote that it’s a pic from the movie?
I didn’t. Learn reading.
“Learn reading?”
Why don’t you “learn typing.”
http://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Fortune-Article.jpg
Larger version of top picture
TY… I’m hoping to find an ultra high rez version so I can zoom in like the one for the cover shot.
Does it mean Han can do the Kessel run in under 11 parsecs now?
That shot in the hangar looks like he’s been photoshopped into a video game still. Obviously not a representation of what we can expect but a disappointing way to give the world a good look at the falcon.
Yep. The problem is almost all photos published in magazines are photoshopped.
I think i will never get used to it…
Not sure if this has already been pointed out but the Falcon’s new radar dish is ‘borrowed’ from the blockade runner/Tantive IV. Nice salvage job, Solo. Check out:
https://fortunedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/discov.jpg
and then
http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090428165017/starwars/images/d/df/TantiveIVFinal.jpg
Here we go, again. Magazine cover comes out, isn’t “real” enough for the fanboys, more “JJ sucks/Jar Jar Abrams/down with Disney” BS.
I think it’s fairly clear from the cover image that the Falcon has been rendered as an illustration rather than rendered in a physical world. The trailer looked fantastic. I don’t think there’s any reason to panic.
Thank you. If you look it is clearly intended to be an illustration of the MF not a photo of the MF.
The difference for our complaining friend below is huge, and that JJ’s team was able to capture that look properly should give us expectation of great visuals in the movie.
I don’t see much of a difference
We live in a time where backdrops start to look fake, and people in the front even faker.
It’s all a devious decoy, and you all bought it…
The truth? *Real* Millennium Falcon.
Bob Iger is 100% CG.
I’ve always believed the first pictures related to “Star Wars VII” especially created for a magazine would be for a movie magazine… not a financial one.