Friday, 13 September 2019

THE 'PHANTOM' AT TWENTY: THE NEED FOR SPEED!


Proving himself as the only human on Tatooine adept at Pod race piloting, Anakin Skywalker deservedly takes the lead in the Boonta Eve competition, but that no-good-cheating 'slimo' rival of his in Sebulba is never too far behind, in this great art for an EPISODE I storybook of a few years back.

'I came up with idea of pod racing, which is in the vein of chariot racing. Instead of horses I used jet engines. It's the kind of thing I would liked to have done when I was racing cars. I think that's what it all comes down to in the end- to have two engines and be able to control them at 500 miles an hour.'

George Lucas - BBC interview (1998)

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