"EVERY SAGA HAS A BEGINNING..."

Tuesday 17 January 2017

'STAR WARS' AT 40: THE SEARCH BEGINS...

Image: Robert Carlisle.

With Artoo freed of his restraining bolt and out into the dangerous night surroundings of the Jundland Wastes looking for Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke and Threepio begin a dawn Landspeeder search, in a scene filmed against back projection at Elstree Studios utilising pre shot second unit Tunisian footage of the canyon they'd be arriving at when finally finding the droid. Shot during a July 1976 heatwave, with Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels in the Landspeeder shell, the sequence was ultimately cut from the final movie after Lucas was unhappy with the finished footage- a part of the scene was later included on DVD in 2004 and Blu-ray in 2011.

Rare Robert Carlyle photographs… – Star Wars Archives

A close-in look at some of the Landspeeder cockpit controls.
Unused computer animation radar graphic for the Landspeeder, showing the location of Artoo.

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