For many movie fans , Drew Struzan is the classic poster artist . His oeuvre has work film series like Indiana Jones , Star Wars and Hellboy to glorious lifetime . But his work on the Back To The Future films remain our favorite .
A new book , The Art Of Drew Struzan , showcases his piece of work on movie card over the past few decades — and as lavish and amazing as the finished product are , the vignette and unfinished version are often the most fascinating . You get to see just how Struzan go about judge a bunch of dissimilar thought and sketches for projects , and then tweaked and tweaked again .
The book also contains a lot of really great ancedotes , including the fact that Struzan only had one day to finishhis iconic bill for John Carpenter ’s The affair . He had n’t seen the remake , and did n’t really experience anything about it , but they tell him to just go establish on the 1952 original — and he still came up with one of the most famous images associated with the film .
It ’s also amazing how many posters feature Struzan ’s own body from the neck down — he used to pose and have his married woman take pictures . Marty McFly ? That ’s Drew Struzan with Michael J. Fox ’s point attached , because the poses the studio mail him were n’t operational .
Besides the big ticket items like Harry Potter , Back To The Future and Star Wars , you get to see a spate of work on promotional imagery for motion picture like Blade Runner , bountiful Trouble In Little China and Adventures In Babysitting — where Struzan had to cut the poster up by hand because the studio wanted the metropolis in the scope to be bigger .
Check out some images from the record book , some of which are exclusive to io9 . More imageshereand atStruzan ’s web site .
Images © Copyright Drew Struzan . All Rights reserve . Used by Permission .
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