THE FORCE has propelled American film production company LucasFilm’s five-year-old Singapore office to new heights.
On Thursday, the company behind the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, announced details of an ‘iconic’ new building being constructed at the Fusionopolis high-tech park.
The new eight-storey glass-and-steel Sandcrawler Building, named after the towering mining machines first seen in its 1977 hit Star Wars: A New Hope, will boast a 100-seat theatre, state-of-the-art production facilities and of course, Star Wars-themed decor.
The company’s president, Ms Micheline Chau, said that it decided to build ‘our own facility because it is very important create the right environment for employees to work in, where our production teams can innovate and truly feel at home’.
In any case, Ms Chau – who is Singaporean – added: ‘Building iconic buildings is something we love to do, and since we are committed to Singapore, we may as well build our own building.’
Once the 22,500-sqm building is completed at the end of 2012, it will be home for Lucasfilm’s TV and feature film arm Lucasfilm Animation, its special effects arm Industrial Light & Magic Singapore, and its LucasArts video games unit.
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