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Friday 11 June 2021

AN 'EMPIRE' AT 40: BITS AND PIECES!


Deep in the bowels of Bespin, Chewbacca's search for the missing Threepio takes him to a junk room where parts of the now wrecked droid are ready to be blast furnaced incinerated by Ugnaughts, soon unhappy at having their work place disturbed by the towering wookiee.





Actress Jane Busby would be behind Stuart Freeborn's makeup as the primary antagonistic Ugnaught/ aka 'Hogperson' (and later playing a diminutive Ewok for Return of the Jedi), with Kenny Baker's wife Eileen also playing one of the creatures, amidst a set covered in existing props and other former costume pieces (including bounty hunters IG-88 and the head of 4-Lom) used in prior filming, supervised by Les Dilley. The scene would have second unit material shot for it by Harley Cokeliss's team at Elstree on 31st July, 1979.

Les Dilley set coordinates the upcoming filming.

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