After living in France for almost ten years, Jonathan Rinzler returned to the United States looking to work in the
movie industry, more specifically with
Lucasfilm. Rinzler, who had been working as a managing editor until that point, was interviewed for a position in the company to work with non-fiction books. He then joined the company in 2001, as the executive editor of
LucasBooks, the company's publishing arm. At the time, the company was producing
Episode II: Attack of the Clones, and Rinzler had been hired to produce a series of books about the
making of their movies. Rinzler still produced a book about the behind the scenes of the 1968 film
Planet of the Apes for
Disney in 2018. In 2019, Rinzler published
The Making of Alien, a behind-the-scenes book about the making of the 1979 film
Alien with cast and crew interviews and previously-unseen photographs. Rinzler also published a novel in 2020 called
All Up, about the
Space Race between the United States and Soviet Russia. He spent one year researching for the book, and about seven years writing it sporadically, until its publication. ==Death==