While there he first met a young George Lucas, and they became not only Delta Kappa Alpha cinema fraternity brothers but also long standing friends.

[6] During those college years, Kazanjian and Lucas both met their respective future wives, and the couples would often double date.

[10][11] For Jedi he came up with the idea of shooting the production under a fake name, Blue Harvest, in order to forestall any attempts at price gouging by suppliers.

Jones was intended to be a smoker and a drinker, but Kazanjian convinced Lucas and Steven Spielberg to remove that.

The scene where sunlight passing through the Headpiece to the Staff of Ra reveals the location of the Well of the Souls was proposed by Kazanjian, who was inspired by the golden statues of Ramesses II at the Abu Simbel temples in Egypt.

[8] The issue of whether Ford would reprise his role of Han Solo for the third Star Wars film arose during pre-production.

Harrison, unlike Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill signed only a two picture contract.

When Phil returned to the office several weeks later he called me back and said I had taken advantage of his son in the negotiations.

[19] Kazanjian lives and works in the community of San Marino, California with his wife Carol (née Eskijian), and three children, Peter, Noah, and Andrew.