I began my career as a producer working with one of Britain's most esteemed screenwriters, the late Dennis Potter, on the screen adaptation of Pennies From Heaven, starring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters. Myself and Potter then reunited on the acclaimed six-part BBC series The Singing Detective.
I also established a close working relationship with director Nicholas Roeg and produced two of Roeg's films, Track 29 and Castaway. My other film credits include Dennis Potter's Blackeyes, Neil Simon's I Ought To Be In Pictures, Heading Home starring Gary Oldman with a screenplay by playwright David Hare who also directed the film, and Strapless also written and directed by Hare, with Blair Brown and Bridget Fonda. Another of my pictures, Dreamchild, written by Mr. Potter, won three BAFTA awards and an Evening Standard Award for Best Actress (Coral Browne).For television, I produced the HBO film On Tidy Endings, written by Harvey Fierstein and starring Fierstein and Stockard Channing. The production received four cable ACE Awards, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay. I also produced the Rolling Stones' music video Undercover, which won the MTV Award for Best Video of the decade.Since 1990, I've worked only with writer/director and good buddy George Lucas. We have collaborated on the feature film Radioland Murders, and the critically acclaimed TV series, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. This series, filmed over a period of four years in 27 countries, received 26 Emmy nominations and won 11 Emmy Awards. It also won the 1993 Banff Award for Best Continuing Series and received a 1993 Golden Globe nomination for Best Dramatic Series. Directors included: Bille August, Mike Newell, Nic Roeg, Carl Schultz, Simon Wincer, David Hare, Deepa Mehta, Rene Manzor, Gavin Millar, and Terry Jones.I produced the restoration and enhancement work done on the phenomenally successful Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition, in addition to producing the next Star Wars trilogy, the first installment of which appeared in theaters on May 19, 1999.Up next we are working on getting the entire saga back in theaters in 3-D and possibly on the IMAX and bringing an all new live action Star Wars television series to you.
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