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| Our droid heroes walk the road to Jabba's palace, of which a classic glass painting was supervised on the location filming by Richard Edlund. |
On December 11th, 1982, the scene of the droids walking to Jabba's palace was shot at
Walkwing Parkway - at a place in Death
Valley, California called Twenty Mule Team
Canyon, with Anthony Daniels as Threepio for his final filming on Return of the Jedi and the robot
controlled Artoo prop. It was directed by George Lucas, and camera photographed by Hiro Narita (who would later go on to do impressive cinematography for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country).
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| A wary Threepio walks with Artoo. |
Working
with Artoo, Daniels would recall to
Star Wars Insider magazine: "Artoo doesn't do sand
and they had earlier found he
didn't do rocks. Years later
they would find that he didn't
do forest floors either. In
each case they would
carefully lay plywood sheets
on the tricky terrain and paint
them the appropriate colour;
sandy-yellow, browny-grey
or greeny-brown. Cunning!
Well, you never noticed, did
you?"
At one point during the
location filming rehearsal, Lucas bends over
next to Threepio pretending to be Artoo and
beeps his lines– something which brings
great amusement to Daniels.
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| Directing the long walk. |
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| Clapperboard image. Though Richard Marquand is credited as director, the sequence was ultimately handled by George Lucas. |
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| Michael Pangrazio's unused landscape painting for the journey to Jabba's palace. |
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| The originally planned matte exterior for Jabba's palace, seen top image in the Marvel Comics adaptation that was replaced- when the new location filming for the revised scene was underway, the art for the adaptation was likely already commenced. |
More on the original unused sequence of the droid's arrival at the palace:
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