Burns
HOLLYWOOD -- Kevin Burns has been tapped by Lucasfilm to produce the documentary expected to be one of the centerpieces on Fox's upcoming "Star Wars Trilogy" DVD set.
Production is expected to run more than two hours; the Emmy-winning Burns was selected to bring the same kind of exhaustive detail to the project as he did with "Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood" and "Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days," among others. "Cleopatra" won a 2001 DVD Exclusive Award.
Burns' 5-year-old Prometheus Entertainment production company has had a longstanding deal with Fox Television Studios, where he was one of the founders of Foxstar Prods. Prometheus has produced hundreds of hours of programming for A&E's "Biography" and other cable programs and networks.
Jon Shenk ("Lost Boys of Sudan") produced the acclaimed fly-on-the-wall documentary for "The Phantom Menace" DVD. Laurent Bouzereau produced the featurettes for last year's release of Lucasfilm's "Indiana Jones Trilogy" on DVD.
The "Star Wars Trilogy" will be released this fall on DVD by Fox.
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