LATEST: ILM StageCraft Volume Makes Public Premiere at D23
Tap the button below to join writer Clayton Sandell as he takes you behind the scenes at the Lucasfilm pavilion as fans experience ILM’s StageCraft volume for the very first time!
The Force of Sound
Go behind-the-scenes at the legendary Skywalker Ranch to meet the sound designers behind "Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi". This was a passion project for Clayton, and more than a year in the making.
Clayton's Bio:
Clayton Sandell is an award winning national TV correspondent, most recently for Scripps News, covering a wide range of entertainment, space exploration, and technology feature stories.
Clayton is also a massive Star Wars fan. He is a co-author of "Star Wars Timelines" for DK Publishing and "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi: A Visual Archive" for Insight Editions. At Star Wars Celebration fan conventions, Clayton has appeared as a guest on multiple panels and moderated a chat with Lucasfilm's Doug Chiang and Jason Horley for Industrial Light & Magic (ILM).
Clayton previously worked for ABC News, appearing on "Good Morning America," "World News Tonight with David Muir”, “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” and "Nightline".
Clayton is adept at covering a wide range of hard news and feature stories. On the Star Wars beat, he's interviewed Luke Skywalker actor Mark Hamill in Ireland, taken viewers inside ILM and Skywalker Sound, and reported on the development, construction, and opening of "Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge" at the Disneyland Resort.
Across the West he’s proven himself as a fierce competitor, reporting on climate change, mass shootings, the legal marijuana industry, the Taylor Swift assault trial, the Aurora movie theater massacre, as well as numerous wildfires, floods and tornadoes.
In addition to domestic assignments, Clayton has reported from around the world, covering democracy protests in Hong Kong to melting glaciers in Greenland. In 2014, he went to Malaysia and Australia to cover the disappearance of flight MH-370. He's reported on climate change from the Arctic Ocean and attended the 2009 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Denmark. He traveled to China to produce a special series on toy recalls and food safety, and was in Haiti during the violent uprisings that led to the ouster of President Jean Bertrand Aristide.
Prior to his post in Denver, Clayton was based in Washington D.C. as a producer for ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson" and "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings”, receiving an Emmy Award as part of the ABC News team covering the inauguration of President Barack Obama. He also was a producer for the "Sam Donaldson: Live in America" radio program and Donaldson's daily live webcast for ABCNews.com. Clayton joined ABC's Washington bureau in September 2000, working on the assignment desk.
Before ABC News, Clayton worked as a reporter at Los Angeles all-news radio station KFWB-AM. He also produced and edited award-winning science and nature documentaries for the Finley-Holiday Film Corporation in Whittier, California.
Clayton's professional broadcasting career began in Southern California, first as a DJ at KRTM-FM radio in Temecula and then as a reporter and anchor at KCKC-AM news-talk radio in San Bernardino. In his free time he produced a live TV talk show for the Riverside Police Department.
Clayton is a graduate of the University of California Riverside with a degree in political science. He lives in Denver with his wife and two children, and too many dogs.