Lucy Autrey Wilson was the Director of Publishing for Lucasfilm.[1]
She is credited as assistant to director in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.[2] During production, Ben Burtt recorded a chatter between Wilson and Bunny Alsup, after having inhaled helium, and then edited their voices in order to provide some alien babble in the soundscape of Chalmun's cantina.[3]
Wilson had the initial inception for the Shadows of the Empire project, during a dinner with Bantam Spectra's Lou Aronica, who suggested that Lucasfilm's multiple licensing deals would make it easy for them to create a multimedia project that could tell an over-arching story throughout multiple mediums. After George Lucas approved the concept, Wilson and Howard Roffman wrote a brief outline of the premise. Wilson has a relationship with a Portuguese named "Xico" and loved the initial sound of the name; Prince Xizor's name was created by Wilson, who combined the Portuguese pronunciation of the letter X (sh-) with the second syllable of the English word "razor."[4] Xizor's official pronunciation was established in the Shadows of the Empire novel and Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption as "shē'zōr".[5][6]
The appearance of the character Mahd Windcaller in Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood was based on Wilson.[1]
Sources[]
- Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (assistant to director)
- The Secrets of Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
- Galactic Phrase Book & Travel Guide
- Heir to the Empire: The 20th Anniversary Edition
- Heir to the Empire unabridged audiobook
Clones at 20 | R.A. Salvatore on Adapting Episode II on StarWars.com (backup link)
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- Lucy Autrey Wilson (Lucasfilm Director of Publishing) on Star Wars Interviews (content now obsolete; archived from the original on November 7, 2020)