It’s a scene familiar to anyone who read the novel or comic. I think the radio series included it as well? I have my doubts Lucas ever really intended to put a stop motion puppet over the actor. And adding Boba Fett looking into the camera was breaking the fourth wall.
Where were you in '77?
The scene in the SE is horrible. It works well in the context of the novelization. I don’t believe for a second that Lucas was going to put a stop motion creature over the actor because there’s so much movement and Han is so close to him that there was no way to make it look anything other than horrible in any era of special effects, but especially terrible in 1977. The stand-in also is in costume and acts enough that he seemed to have had some direction for Lucas.
The Person in Question
The storyboard shown in Star Wars to Jedi is a bit suspect. It doesn’t really look like any of the other production art from the original film.
And there’s no concept art for an alien Jabba in The Art Of Star Wars AFAIK.
Lucas probably toyed with the idea during production on ROTJ and had someone draw it up.
Where were you in '77?
The scene in the 1977 comic book adaptation :
Han: Hey Lando! You kept your promise, right? Not a scratch?
Lando: Well, what’s left of her isn’t scratched. All the scratched parts got knocked off along the way.
Han (exasperated): Knocked off?!
Lucas probably toyed with the idea during production on ROTJ and had someone draw it up.
That would explain why there’s a Salacious-like creature on his tail in the pic…
The scene in the 1977 comic book adaptation :
Yeah, they used this background alien. Presumably from the stack of photos they got from the studio. He remained Jabba well into 1980. I don’t think Jabba appeared in the comic at all between ESB and the ROTJ adaptation. The quest for Han obviously couldn’t succeed in that period.
You can also spot him in the Cantina trying to drink. Not sure if he was supposed to be drunk or the actor just couldn’t see well enough to get the glass to the lips on the mask. 😉
Where were you in '77?
[accidentally steps on Jabba’s tail, causing Jabba to yelp in pain]
#hansteppedpurposefully
I would put this in my sig if I weren’t so lazy.
Han stepped first.
Han stepped first.
You need to put an awful spine cracking sound or something when you get to that scene. 😉
Where were you in '77?
I’m not sure I can stand including that scene. Or any SE scene for that matter.
But you could use the '97 version with Weird Science Jabba, and dub him with Fat Bastard’s voice, as I suggested a while back. And having Boba Fett look into camera and utter Oh Hai! is mandatory. 😃
Where were you in '77?
That’d be wonderful.
The Person in Question
But you could use the '97 version with Weird Science Jabba, and dub him with Fat Bastard’s voice, as I suggested a while back. And having Boba Fett look into camera and utter Oh Hai! is mandatory. 😃
Agreed. This is not optional.
Suggestions in the wrong thread will be quickly forgotten.
Pretty sure I’ve suggested it in the proper place before, but ok.
Where were you in '77?
I don’t remember where I read it, but supposedly Lucas did set aside some of Jedi’s budget to “complete” the Jabba scene in Star Wars. He even initially asked the art department to design Jabba in such a way that he could be more easily composited into the scene. Obviously the idea was abandoned.
I’m willing to meet Lucas halfway on the Jabba thing. I do think he wanted an alien creature in that scene, but the idea was dropped by the time it came to actually shooting it.
It might have been easier to try and make Harrison look younger and just reshoot the scene since the full size Falcon was handy.
Where were you in '77?
Did Luke tell Han and Leia where he was going after the rescue on Tatooine? Did he tell Leia about Yoda at all?
Where were you in '77?
Did Luke tell Han and Leia where he was going after the rescue on Tatooine? Did he tell Leia about Yoda at all?
I know it’s EU but to my recollection Luke told Leia about Yoda in the Thrawn books… I could be mistaken, though.
And in the time of greatest despair, there shall come a savior, and he shall be known as the Son of the Suns.
Anybody else think it’s dumb that Jabba is constantly referred to as “Jabba the Hutt” when Hutt is just the species he is? When I was a little kid, I thought “Hutt” must mean “mob boss” or something.
Anybody else think it’s dumb that Jabba is constantly referred to as “Jabba the Hutt” when Hutt is just the species he is? When I was a little kid, I thought “Hutt” must mean “mob boss” or something.
That probably is what “Hutt” originally meant, but as far as retcons go you could always argue that he’s the Hutt crime lord. At least in the EU he was the most powerful of all the Hutts.
Star Wars is Surrealism, not Science Fiction (essay)
Original Trilogy Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Beyond the OT Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Amazon link to my novel; Dawn of the Karabu.
Jabba’s the only Hutt in my headcanon. Partially because I seem to remember an annoying baby Hutt in early Clone Wars episodes (or was it the movie?), then there’s this guy in the current Marvel comics
and worst of all, this guy from the old EU
So things are easier for me if I pretend Jabba is the only one.
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Ziro is the abomination from Rebels.
I agree Jabba should be the only Hutt.
Yeah, I’ve always stuck with “Hutt” meaning “Mob Boss” or “Crime Lord”.
Easy enough since I only take the OT, but I never hear anybody mention it and it’s the kind of thing that would drive me crazy if I was an EU fan.
Ziro is the abomination from Rebels.
I agree Jabba should be the only Hutt.
Hey! I liked Ziro. And unless he’s not dead, he only appeared in Clone Wars.
Where were you in '77?