Friday 4 November 2011

BEHIND THE SCENES IMAGE: "HE'S A DOCTOR, NOT A DROID..."


The famous 2-1B medical droid, seen in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK's early Rebel Base scenes with the injured Luke, begins sculpting development and construction within the offices at London's ELSTREE STUDIOS in late 1978 or early 1979. Note the prototype and evolutionary drawings, concepts and mock-ups for the Tauntauns and Wampa creature, too, as well as a massive branch tentacled Dagobah tree behind it...

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