George Lucas. Guillermo del Toro. Frank Darabont. These are just a handful of Drew Struzan’s fans.
Struzan created posters for “Star Wars,” “Harry Potter” “Indiana Jones,” “Back to the Future” and many other iconic franchises during his career of more than 30 years. In his book “Drew Struzan: Oeuvre,” a 320-page hardcover from Titan Books out this month, the prolific movie poster and album cover illustrator turns back the pages on some of his most memorable designs.
Though Struzan’s work still frequently appears in movie theater displays, his paintings may be the last of their kind. Most movie art and design is now created digitally, and Struzan’s contemporaries, renowned illustrators John Alvin and Richard Amsel, have died.
“Most of what passes for movie poster art these days are just Photoshopped pictures of actors striking saucy poses and staring at us like a troop of lobotomy victims,” Darabont told the L.A. Times in 2008. “He crafts a piece of art that honors your film instead of just merely trying to sell it. Seriously, for a filmmaker who really appreciates what poster art means, Drew doing your poster is like getting an award.”
Struzan has illustrated posters for many of Darabont’s projects, including the AMC hit TV series “The Walking Dead” and the Oscar-nominated drama “The Shawshank Redemption.” He also did posters for Del Toro’s “Hellboy” movies and for “Pan’s Labyrinth.”
“What Drew does isn’t really distilling the elements of a movie,” Del Toro told the L.A. Times in 2008. “It’s almost alchemy. He takes images and makes them quintessentially cinematic. His style has been copied so many times in a bad way, people don’t realize until they revisit his posters just how powerful the pure Struzan style is, how purely filmic it is.”
Click through the gallery above for a peek at some of the artwork featured in “Drew Struzan: Oeuvre.” Be sure to turn the captions on.
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