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August 9, 1984: Star Wars: The Ewok Adventure: Caravan of Courage: #OTD George Lucas began directing 10 days of reshoots. Here he shows Eric Walker how Mace’s hand is grabbed by a tree creature in this added scene.
August 1, 2002: Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: #OTD Ryan Church’s fighter concept would become the ARC-170 clone starfighter. @rchurchdesign
July 25, 2002: Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: #OTD Many ideas were investigated as the story and script developed, including a battle over Mustafar. @rchurchdesign’s concept shows a Republic assault ship crashing on Mustafar.
July 25, 1996: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: #OTD Concept for a droid personnel carrier by Doug Chiang.
July 19, 1996: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: This podracer idea by Terryl Whitlatch became Boles Roor. The character was developed and mentioned in the race introduction but only seen briefly on screen just to the right of the announcer.
July 16, 1996: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: A podracer idea by Terryl Whitlatch, named “Long Head” was developed and later became Ratts Tyerell, who came to an unfortunate end in the Laguna Caves during the Boonta Eve Classic podrace.
July 13, 2003: Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: @rchurchdesign’s layout of the Mustafar landscape and environment for the climactic duel between Obi-Wan and Darth Vader. Arrows on the drawing indicate the direction of the battle.
July 9, 2003: Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: After Obi-Wan falls into the water after being shot down by Clones on Utapau (following Order 66), a sequence was planned where Obi-Wan fights his way back to the surface. Here is Michael Murnane’s concept for the cave dwelling Nos.
July 8, 2002: Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: @rchurchdesign’s concept for a transport hangar as starfighters depart for war has the dynamism of an aircraft carrier deck.
July 7, 1995: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: Terryl Whitlatch imagined a landing platform for “avibats (bat birds)” on Tatooine. Whitlatch: “The animals on Tatooine, the ones the Gungans ride, or that live in the swamp, need to have lives of their own to be believable.”