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Patrick Read Johnson is an American filmmaker, special effects artist and screenwriter. He is known for his directorial work on Spaced Invaders, Angus, Baby's Day Out, The Genesis Code and 5-25-77, a film about his experience of seeing Star Wars in 1977.
- A Hollywood Director Makes His Passion Project
- The Prequels Strike Back
- A Pinto, A Projector and Lots of Miles Later
- The Screening That Changed Everything
In the '80s and '90s, Johnson achieved some success in Hollywood. He directed Spaced Invaders, Baby's Day Out and Angus, among other films. He also co-wrote the story for DragonHeart. In the late '90s he took a break from Hollywood and moved his family back to Wadsworth, Illinois. It was there he got the idea to make an American Graffiti-style movi...
Even though 5-25-77 is intertwined with Star Wars, it's not really about Star Wars. It's more like Dazed and Confused for '70s kids who wanted to make films. But for better or worse, 5-25-77 is linked to Star Wars. And kids who grew up on the original trilogy remember when the prequels were released and things got bad. "By the time we were finished...
Over the years, Johnson screened rough cuts of the movie at festivals in a bid to convince his collaborators that the film was worth finishing. In 2007, 5-25-77 screened at Star Wars Celebration IV. Then, in 2012, Johnson made a cross-country trip in the Ford Pinto featured in the film. He held impromptu screenings of 5-25-77 along the way and made...
So how did Johnson get to be the original Star Wars film's very first fan? As a kid, he remade films he liked. For his homemade sequel Jaws 2 he used a gallon of concentrated dye in a swimming pool to create the "bloodiest shark attack ever filmed." His mother, a champion of Johnson's childhood cinematic feats, eventually contacted Herb Lightman, t...
Patrick Read Johnson was born in Wadsworth, Illinois, USA. He is a writer and director, known for 5-25-77 (2008), DragonHeart (1996) and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989). Menu
Patrick Read Johnson was born in Wadsworth, Illinois, USA. He is a writer and director, known for 5-25-77 (2008), DragonHeart (1996) and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989). Menu
May 5, 2023 · Patrick Read Johnson has a claim to fame which thousands envy. He was the first person, beyond those who made it, ever to see the original Star Wars.The story of how that came about is the lynchpin of his semi-autobiographical new film, 5-25-77, which also explores the way he fell in love with filmmaking and finally moved beyond amateur productions in small town Illinois to develop a career in ...
Nov 17, 2022 · Images courtesy of Patrick Read Johnson and MVD Entertainment Group. Patrick Read Johnson was not the first budding filmmaker to arrive at the ASC Clubhouse in 1977 with a reel, a reverence for Kubrick’s 2001, and an encyclopedic recall of every issue of American Cinematographer he’d struggled to procure in his rural hometown, but he was nevertheless unique.
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5-25-77: Directed by Patrick Read Johnson. With John Francis Daley, Austin Pendleton, Kevin Rosendo, Colleen Camp. Alienated film-maker hopeful Pat Johnson's epic story of growing up in rural Illinois, falling in love and becoming the first fan of the movie that changed everything.
