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Date Posted: 26/05/02 18:42:41 GMT+10
Author: SofaMan
Subject: more tidbits and corrections...
In reply to: Goktimus Prime 's message, "As I remember from his interview with Leonard Maltin..." on 25/05/02 17:46:35 GMT+10


>This is why he did certain
>things like kill Obi-Wan

Actually, Obi-Wan was killed off at the request of Alec Guinness, since he "couldn't stand repeating those awful banal lines" (his quote). He didn't tell Lucas that this was his reasoning, of course, but persuaded Lucas that the story would benefit from his death, and this meant he could also minimise his involvement Eps. 4-6.


>and created Chewbacca in
>Episode IV, because in his original writings, Obi-Wan
>was meant to survive to train Luke as a Jedi and the
>Wookies were never meant to have been seen until
>Episode VI -- hence why he had to create Yoda and the
>Ewoks, to compensate for the changes he had made to
>Episode IV, back when he thought there would only ever
>be one Star Wars movie and he really hoped that the
>film would at least break even and pay for the costs
>of its production.

Another change we found out about later was that Jabba the Hutt was to appear in the first film, but as a human. Lucas cut the scene (since he didn't now if he could finish off that subplot, for the reasons outlined above). Later on when Jabba became an alien in RoTJ, Lucas decided to reinsert the cut scene into Ep4 SE, and had to digitally insert the alien Jabba into the scene, over the top of the human actor.

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