Lucas O. Seastrom

Writer, Editor, Historian

United States

-A decade of professional experience writing for books, websites, magazines, journals, documentaries, and exhibits.
-Published hundreds of articles about film, animation, television, art, science, technology, literature, comics, games, and popular culture.
-Conducted more than 400 interviews with filmmakers, artists, musicians, scientists, writers, executives, and technicians.
-Extensive copy-writing, ghost-writing, and copy-editing experience, including press releases, mass communications, obituaries, itemized descriptions, panels, fan letters, and speeches.

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Portfolio

Lucasfilm

Lucasfilm.com
02/12/2021
Getting to Know the Lucasfilm Timeline | Lucasfilm.com

After 50 years, there's a lot to cover! As Lucasfilm celebrates its golden anniversary in 2021, we're exploring a rich array of stories, innovations, and people to celebrate the company's past and to get excited for its future.

Lucasfilm.com
05/31/2023
Young Indiana Jones: A Beginner's Guide

As this unique Lucasfilm television series makes its return on Disney+, a brand-new audience will discover Indy's youthful adventures.

Corporate & Campaigns

Lucasfilm Instagram
2021
Lucasfilm "50 Facts" Campaign

Lead writer and strategist for 50-post series in support of company's 50th anniversary. Samples included here.

Lucasfilm Instagram
2020
#FlyLikeThem Campaign

Lead writer and strategist for public awareness campaign about heroic Tuskegee Airmen. Samples included here.

Interviews & Profiles

Walt Disney Family Museum

Walt Disney Family Museum Blog
12/14/2016
50 Years Later: The Walt Disney Legacy

December 15, 2016 marks fifty years since Walt Disney's passing. It has been half a century since the world lost one of its greatest visionaries.

Walt Disney Family Museum Blog
08/15/2023
100 Years Ago: Walt Goes West

It was late July 1923 and Walt Disney had failed. His Laugh-O-gram Films was headed for bankruptcy and, with little prospects left in Kansas City, Missouri, he was pulling up stakes.

Star Wars

Industrial Light & Magic

Industrial Light & Magic
01/15/2025
ILM Profiles: Tania Richard

The ILM Vancouver artist details her globe-trotting career path from special make-up effects to art direction to effects supervision.

Editing

Books

https://www.amazon.com/2023-Hyperion-Historical-Alliance-Annual/dp/B0CR745ZSK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3H56B8N6PKZJR&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.83ag4Wm8cdZbHGEIWuSxv-TuzOYHRi1L95ILTz7aTs5oShnn1ayo7heKfAxjYKRaG7E6uYsmVIyXDIlFNyLuw0t7qoHTlN3lr_QoQwU03NKj0-2yXh1IDwTu4wCdJOj7.ezbxOcMIxRzqVD_JK6lDVZS2hFzf-PIDEyAWIxoLKw8&dib_tag=se&keywords=hyperion+historical+alliance&qid=1711151505&sprefix=hyperion+histo%2Caps%2C351&sr=8-1
Hyperion Historical Alliance Annual
2023
Woolie Reitherman Needs to Fly: A Disney Artist Goes to War

Contributing essayist.

Magazines

Star Wars Insider
06/13/2023
The Art of Star Wars

A history of the art publications with new interviews with the authors and designers.

On Storytelling

Lucasfilm.com
04/16/2021
Defining Moments: "Courage, Willow"

At sunrise in a desolate valley littered with the wastes of battle, a small farmer and an old sorceress make a stand.

Lucasfilm.com
01/20/2022
Defining Moments: We Fight

It is early morning at Ramitelli Airfield, Italian headquarters for the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II.

Reporting

Lucasfilm.com
12/07/2023
Employee Spotlight: Michelle Phung

As Lucasfilm's events specialist, Michelle Phung is intimately involved in helping produce Star Wars Celebration.

Obituaries & Tributes

StarWars.com
James Earl Jones: 1931-2024

Everyone at Lucasfilm was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of James Earl Jones at the age of 93.

Lucasfilm.com
10/01/2024
Robert Watts: 1938-2024

Producer Robert Watts, who was an essential crew member of the first Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies, has passed away.

Lucasfilm.com
04/06/2023
Norman Reynolds: 1934-2023

The Lucasfilm community mourns the loss of Norman Reynolds, influential production designer for Star Wars and Indiana Jones.

Walt Disney Family Museum Blog
04/18/2023
Remembering Rolly Crump

The Disney community has lost yet another of those cherished collaborators who worked directly with Walt. Roland Fargo Crump passed away recently at the age of 93.

Technology

Lucasfilm.com
05/16/2022
Lucasfilm Originals: Digital Cinema

Star Wars: Attack of the Clones celebrates its 20 th anniversary in 2022. As the first blockbuster movie made entirely with a digital camera system, it helped launch a new century of filmmaking.

Lucasfilm.com
08/18/2021
Lucasfilm Originals: THX

What began as a project to improve the quality of Lucasfilm's new sound-mixing facility quickly snowballed into a decades-long effort to improve the movie-going experience for everyone.

Lucasfilm.com
10/15/2021
Lucasfilm Originals: SCUMM | Lucasfilm.com

In the mid-1980s, the young Lucasfilm Games group become its own burgeoning division experimenting with a relatively new form of entertainment and storytelling.

Lucasfilm.com
12/03/2021
Lucasfilm Originals: The ILM Dykstraflex

When George Lucas organized Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) in 1975 to create the visual effects for his new film, Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), one of his specific goals was to realize dynamic shots of moving spacecraft.