\nDirector:<\/strong> George Lucas
\nCast:<\/strong> Harrison Ford, Mark Hammill, Carrie Fisher
\nPoster Artist: <\/strong>The Brothers Hildebrandt<\/p>\n
The Star Wars franchise has given us an assortment of poster delights and they have, to varying degrees of success, been parodied, lampooned and homaged throughout popular culture ever since.<\/p>\n However, it’s The Brothers Hildebrandt’s original painting that stands out the most. A beautifully crafted tapestry with intricate attention to detail, it comprises the film’s many elements, including a mythical Luke, a rather sexualised Leia as well as R2, C-3PO and TIE fighters, all set against the backdrop of Darth Vader. It truly captures the operatic space-age action and the sheer otherworldliness of the film.<\/p>\n Year<\/strong>: 1982 Award-winning artist John Alvin’s iconic poster for Ridley Scott’s genre staple is a truly mesmerising creation. Capturing the noir aesthetics of the film and the skyscraping production design perfectly, photoreal paintings of Harrison Ford’s Deckard and Sean Young’s Rachael sit atop a view of the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles 2019.<\/p>\n Action packed and yet wholly atmospheric, it recreates the chaos of Scott’s visionary dystopia while maintaining a classical appearance and, of course, it introduces the signature logo too.<\/p>\n Year:<\/strong> 1978 Bob Peak’s subtle yet powerful design for Donner’s 1978 film is a classic example of how less can be more. The logo itself takes up only a fraction of the image but its impact is one of bewitching wonder.<\/p>\n The stark tagline, ‘You’ll believe a man can fly’, focuses attention on the draw of the then-ground-breaking special effects, but it’s the implication that Superman is somewhere up in the clouds that gives the poster both its immediacy and longevity.<\/p>\n Year: <\/strong>1956 The quite menacing- looking Robby the Robot with the arbitrators of political correctness, the MPAA, in a tizz these days. However, despite this misdirection, it is the beautiful use of colour in the depiction of Robby and the magnificent background that makes this a treasure.<\/p>\n The comic strip influences are the source of its eternal appeal and the self-explanatory tagline, \u2018Amazing!\u2019, completes the near-perfect package.<\/p>\n Year:<\/strong> 1981 Illustrator and graphic designer Richard Amsel produced two designs for the Raiders poster, one for the film’s initial 1981 release and this poster for its re-release a year later.<\/p>\n Playing on the character’s familiarity, the frenetic and action-packed design combines all of the film’s elements, as well as most of its characters, into this sleek and perfectly honed one-sheet.<\/p>\n All the characteristics that would become the series’ trademarks are present and Amsel perfectly captures the film’s matinee origins. To be honest, the magnificent title design alone secures its classic status. In a word: class.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Year:<\/strong> 1979 The ‘father of the modern movie poster’ Bob Peak’s design for the one- sheet was inspired. A bold and memorable image, the rainbow- coloured effect creates an aura of anticipation as it teases the audience with the recognisable faces of Kirk and Spock partly cconcealed behind it.<\/p>\n The confidently understated title introduced the Enterprise’s move from small to big screen, however, it was the cheeky tagline ‘There is no comparison’ that stated the film’s intent in bringing the beloved show to celluloid fruition at a time when Star Wars was still riding high in the public consciousness.<\/p>\n Year: <\/strong>1982 This poster was withdrawn at the time in favour of the image showing Elliot and E.T.’s fingers meeting, however, the ‘flying bicycle’ scene is one of the best-remembered from the film and such is the image’s power that Spielberg went on to use it as the logo for his production company, Amblin Entertainment.<\/p>\n Timeless and instantly recognisable, the shot of Elliot and E.T. silhouetted against the moon is one of the most enduring in cinema history and, now a rare and valuable collector’s item, the poster’s stark simplicity perfectly captures the film’s heartfelt story.<\/p>\n Year: <\/strong>1979 In much the same way as the film kept its xenomorph hidden for the most part, its poster shows you next to nothing but leaves you feeling everything.<\/p>\n The brooding atmospherics evoke the suspense the film conjures and the sickly green spilling from the egg hints at the menace inside. With a fantastic tagline, ‘In space no one can hear you scream’, it’s a triumph of the less is more philosophy.<\/p>\n Year: <\/strong>1984![\"Star](\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/starwars-600.png\" "\\"starwars-600\\"")
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\n2. Blade Runner<\/h3>\n
\nDirector<\/strong> Ridley Scott
\nCast:<\/strong> Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer
\nPoster Artist: <\/strong>John Alvin<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n3. Superman<\/h3>\n
\nDirector: <\/strong>Richard Donner
\nCast: <\/strong>Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman
\nPoster Artist: <\/strong>Bob Peak<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n4. Forbidden Planet<\/h3>\n
\nDirector:<\/strong> Fred M Wilcox
\nCast: <\/strong>Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen<\/p>\n
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\n5. Indiana Jones and Raiders Of The Lost Ark<\/h3>\n
\nDirector:<\/strong> Steven Spielberg
\nCast: <\/strong>Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman
\nPoster Artist:<\/strong> Richard Amsel<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n6. Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/h3>\n
\nDirector:<\/strong> Robert Wise
\nCast: <\/strong>William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley
\nPoster Artist:<\/strong> Bob Peak<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n7. E.T.: The Extraterrestrial<\/h3>\n
\nDirector: <\/strong>Steven Spielberg
\nCast:<\/strong> Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Drew Barrymore<\/p>\n\n
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\n8. Alien<\/h3>\n
\nDirector:<\/strong> Ridley Scott
\nCast:<\/strong> Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n9. The Terminator<\/h3>\n
\nDirector:<\/strong> James Cameron
\nCast: <\/strong>Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn<\/p>\n
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