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Post #1469033

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jedi_bendu
Parent topic
Return of the Jedi: The "Lightman" Mystery
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Date created
25-Jan-2022, 6:02 PM

So film historian (and maker of an original trilogy doc, I think - definitely heard his name before) Jamie Benning has been tweeting about our mysterious lava man today, saying it’s been 40 years today since it was filmed before quickly being abandoned. Here’s the initial tweet, and I’l copy and paste from another below:

https://twitter.com/jamieswb/status/1485939204391587845?s=20

“For the role, stunt coord Peter Diamond was dressed in a racing driver’s jumpsuit rigged up with a plethora of
lighbulbs and plugged into the electricity supply. The suit and the glow of the bulbs made it difficult for him to manouevre.”

Here is some concept art somebody found:

I don’t have the sources for these but they seem accurate to me.