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A Producer’s Life with Howard Kazanjian, Producer, Raiders of the Lost Ark | The Writer Experience #156

October 27, 2021 by Gary Collinson

Listen to the latest episode of The Writer Experience…

In this episode of The Writer Experience, Court and Harry are joined by Howard Kazanjian, a film producer whose career spans 50 years. He has collaborated with Hollywood legends such as Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Sam Peckinpah, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas, and worked on such classics as The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Return of the Jedi. Howard was also Vice President of Lucasfilm, Ltd., and is a published non-fiction author. He is known for producing some of the most commercially and critically successful films of all time and for coming up with central ideas on those films.

The new memoir about Howard’s life, HOWARD KAZANJIAN: A PRODUCER’S LIFE, written by J.W Rinzler, was just released on September 21st, and is in stores now.

You can subscribe to The Writer Experience on SoundCloud, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice to listen to future episodes, along with an extensive back catalogue of interviews.

The Writer Experience Podcast is part of The Flickering Myth Podcast Network.

 

Originally published October 27, 2021. Updated November 5, 2021.

Filed Under: Flickering Myth Podcast Network, Movies Tagged With: Howard Kazanjian, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, the writer experience

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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