20 Things You Didn't Know About Star Wars: Attack Of The Clones
11. It Was The First Film Made By "Virtual Filmmaking"
Despite the film's excessive approach to visual effects integration, Attack of the Clones is nevertheless a ground-breaking movie in helping revolutionise the nature of movie production.
Producer Rick McCallum called it the first film created through "virtual filmmaking," because the elements that went into a given scene were often remotely produced across different countries or continents and composited together by the VFX team.
This is extremely commonplace nowadays, of course, and the pandemic has only further seen movie production workflows become more dynamic than ever before, but without Lucas pushing the bounds of global collaboration almost 20 years ago, the recent pivot would've been far more challenging.