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Post by MCDemuth on Dec 7, 2017 4:45:36 GMT
Not sure if this has been discussed here before... (I tried a forum search and didn't get any hits...)
But, the article was published today...
I can't really make out any details of what the creature looks like, in the embedded Twitter image found in the news article, so I can't tell, how well it resembles Gary...
But, doing a tribute to Gary like this sounds pretty cool, at least to me, if true.
I'll definitely be on the lookout for the creature when I see the new film.
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Dec 7, 2017 4:51:58 GMT
Family's Dog Helped Inspire 'Jedi' Ewoks, Lucas Testifies
January 18, 1990
CALGARY, Canada — The short furry creatures called Ewoks in the 1983 film "Return of the Jedi" evolved from a script written by producer George Lucas in 1974 and were designed--partly--with Lucas' family dog in mind, Lucas told a Canadian court today during his testimony as a defendant in a $129-million copyright infringement case.
Lucas, who has been accused of stealing the name and concept for the Ewoks from a Calgary writer, said he created the Ewoks in his original 1974 draft of "The Star Wars" and came up with the name by reversing the syllables of the character he called Wookie and rhyming it with the northern California Indian tribe known as the Miwok (pronounced: me-walk).
Calgary writer-producer Dean Preston testified earlier in the week that he invented the Ewoks in a script called "Space Pets" that he wrote in 1977 and mailed to Lucas in 1978. Lucas denied having read or received the script from Preston.
Lucas' Northern California-based Lucas Films Ltd. and 20th Century Fox Canada Ltd. were also named as defendants in Preston's suit. The trial is expected to end next week.
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Post by MCDemuth on Dec 7, 2017 5:19:28 GMT
For those of us who don't use Twitter, I found a picture that I could embed here... It's the little dog sized creature, being held in the palm of the bald-headed alien, on the left side of this picture:
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Post by audiosane on Dec 7, 2017 6:43:15 GMT
For those of us who don't use Twitter, I found a picture that I could embed here... It's the little dog sized creature, being held in the palm of the bald-headed alien, on the left side of this picture: As TFA was approaching release and I took notice of Carrie Fisher's dog, Gary, in interviews and such, I thought how cool it would be if he could wear a little motion capture suit in one of the sequels.
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Post by Nightman on Dec 7, 2017 17:10:53 GMT
I approve of that dog getting much-deserved respect.
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Post by audiosane on Dec 8, 2017 7:23:27 GMT
I approve of that dog getting much-deserved respect. I would be down for Gary Fisher and Warwick Davis being in every Star Wars film possible from now on...
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