Netflix is on a roll. Following the announcement that its action-fantasy blockbuster (which cost about $90 million) Bright, starring Will Smith and Joel Edgerton, has become the most-watched original title of the streaming service, at the same time giving a considerable boost to the platform's subscriptions base, it has now been revealed that Netflix is in talk to acquire the new Cloverfield sequel produced by J. J. Abrams, named God Particle.

When studying Ralph McQuarrie's concept art commissioned by George Lucas in 1975 to illustrate his then Star Wars project, what first comes to mind is how different the saga could have looked like, but mostly how strikingly it inspired (and still does) the decades-old space saga, visually. Back then feeding his imagination with the first drafts of the script, McQuarrie let it run wild, bringing color and shape to characters like Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, C3PO, Chewbacca and the whole sci-fi universe that would surround them. The result, although it diverges from the final productions, turned out to be an essential source of inspiration for Lucas, who was in much need of some concrete…