The second season of Light & Magic, the documentary about ILM from Lucasfilm and Imagine Documentaries, is coming to Disney+ from April 18th with Joe Johnston taking over directorial duties from Lawrence Kasdan across the three new episodes.
Collider’s Mike Zimmerman also with Light & Magic director Joe Johnston about Season 2, where he confirmed that it will pick up “right after Jurassic Park,” but that it would not follow a strict timeline and would instead jump around all over the place. The two also went on to talk about how big of a player the prequel trilogy is in the second season of Light & Magic, highlighting that there were many things George Lucas wanted to do going in that he would only pursue if he had the proper special effects for, and that he was fortunately able to see his vision through thanks to the work of ILM. Johnston also mentioned that the work ILM did with other movies such as Twister and Pirates of the Caribbean will be featured heavily in Season 2, along with Casper and War of the Worlds.
“Every time ILM is given a challenge, they figure out how to do it and that advances their abilities and techniques for the next film to come along.”
