The Last Movie-Poster Artist

Drew Struzan painted many of the most iconic movie posters of the last three decades, including the <i>Star Wars</i> and <i>Indiana Jones</i> series

THE THING, 1982
That was an extreme case, that John Carpenter remake. They called me on the phone and said, "We're re-doing The Thing. It's the same story as the first movie, more or less. So send us a drawing." I didn't see anything on the movie. I didn't read the script, I didn't see the stills, I had nothing to go on. So that one was more generic than anything else out of necessity. It took one day and one night to do the whole project.

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