{"id":11044,"date":"2010-12-29T17:13:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T01:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=11044"},"modified":"2010-12-29T17:13:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T01:13:21","slug":"mccune-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/12\/mccune-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"McCune Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Grant McCune<\/strong>, known to <em>Star Trek<\/em> fans for his visual effects work on <em>Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/em>, passed away Monday from pancreatic cancer at the age of sixty-seven.<\/p>\n<p>McCune, <strong>Douglas Trumbull, John Dystra, Richard Yuricich, Robert Swarthe <\/strong>and <strong>Dave Stewart<\/strong> were nominated for an Oscar for their work on <em>Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/em> in 1979.\u00a0 The visual effects for <em>Alien<\/em> won instead.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/McCune122910.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11045\" title=\"McCune122910\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/McCune122910.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a>In 1977, McCune shared an Oscar win for Visual Effects for his work on another science fiction film, <em>Star Wars<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>McCune began his career in special and visual effects by helping to create the giant shark for <em>Jaws<\/em>. He also worked on movies such as <em>Die Hard, Space Balls, Never Say Never Again, Big, Caddyshack, Speed, Batman Forever, U.S. Marshalls, Red Planet, U-571, Spider-Man<\/em> and<em> Serenity<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He created a perfect work environment,&#8221; said <strong>Monty Shook<\/strong>, head of Grant McCune Design&#8217;s model shop. &#8220;If you had a question, whether it was in the field of science, math, medicine, or the arts, he would have an answer, not some half-baked fabrication, but a clear, informed, articulate response.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McCune is survived by wife Katherine, a son, daughter and a sister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant McCune, known to Star Trek fans for his visual effects work on Star Trek:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2972],"tags":[3482,3452],"class_list":["post-11044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-movies","tag-mccune","tag-star-trek-the-motion-picture"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-movies\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek Movies<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek Movies","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11046,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044\/revisions\/11046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}