The projections also came in handy during the ‘Kessel Run,’ where the Falcon is evading Imperial TIE fighters, a giant space creature and a major Maelstrom. Says Bredow: “We had about 20 minutes of media that we created for the Kessel Run. Ron Howard wanted to run it from top to bottom, so we would start at the beginning and run it all the way through and just do one cue after another, but oftentimes he would want to just do a section or repeat a section a bunch of times, then pop into the next one. We had various real-time systems in play with people able to operate it.”

Director of Photography Bradford Young was also able to use the projections as primary lighting cues, and he would light the shots accordingly. “If we wanted more blaster fire or ‘pew-pews’ from the TIE fighters,” says Bredow, “I could call for some TIEs to be firing on screen right or screen left, and Bradford might then say, ‘I just need more green backlight over here.’ We could do that all interactively, so we didn’t have to make those decisions in advance, which was really fun.”